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Franklin Roy Bruno MBE (born 16 November 1961) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1982 to 1996. He won the WBC heavyweight title from Oliver McCall at Wembley Stadium in 1995, in what was his fourth world championship challenge.
Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno, billed as "The Battle of Britain" was a professional boxing match contested on 1 October 1993 at National Stadium, Cardiff in Wales. [1] It was between WBC heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, who was making the second defence of his title and Frank Bruno, who was fighting in his third world title bout, his two previous title fights having been unsuccessful.
Next for Tyson was a bout against popular British fighter Frank Bruno that was originally set for October 8, 1988 at Wembley Stadium in Bruno's native England. However, on August 23, 1988, Tyson was involved in a street fight with former adversary Mitch Green , whom Tyson had defeated prior to his Championship fight with Trevor Berbick .
Mike Tyson (left) in action against Frank Bruno in 1989 (Getty) Less than one year later, James Buster Douglas, an even bigger underdog, knocked out Tyson to win the world heavyweight title in ...
The winner of the rematch was to then grant a title match to Frank Bruno, the top-ranked heavyweight contender, within 90 days. [ 7 ] The undefeated Bruno had been in talks to face Witherspoon in his native UK since Witherspoon's victory over Tubbs in January, but first needed to win a WBA "eliminator" bout against ex-WBA heavyweight champion ...
Frank Bruno, at that time, had been a professional boxer for over thirteen years. He was a former European heavyweight champion and had received several shots at the world heavyweight title over the course of his career.
Judge Malcolm Bulner gave Bruno a 115-113 victory. Newton Campos and Fay Solis each had Bruno the winner by 117-111. [3] Bruno became only the third British-born boxer to win a world heavyweight title along with Bob Fitzsimmons and Lennox Lewis—and he was the first to win it on British soil.
George Albert Francis [1] (1928–3 [2] or 4 [1] April 2002 [3] [4]), known professionally as George Francis, was a British boxing athletic trainer who trained world champion boxers such as Frank Bruno, [3] [5] John Conteh, [6] [3] [5] John Mugabi, and Cornelius Boza-Edwards, and European champion Bunny Sterling, [3] who also became the first West Caribbean boxer to claim a British title ...