Frank Bruno shared the ring with some of the biggest names to ever grace the heavyweight division.
The popular Brit fulfilled his goal of becoming champion at the fourth attempt when he defeated Oliver McCall on points for the WBC belt on a famous night at Wembley Stadium in 1995.
The three men he had previously failed to beat for the strap were Tim Witherspoon, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis – and it’s Lewis that Bruno shared his dislike for.
Speaking to DAZN Boxing, Bruno says Lewis used a derogatory term towards his mother in the build up to the fight in 1993.
“It was such a massive fight but he was upsetting me by saying such stupid things which I shouldn’t have let get to me.
I don’t know how that two faced rat could say someone’s an Uncle Tom when his mum comes from the same Jamaica as my mum.
I would never call my mum that I would never call someone that, but he hit that low. I don’t need to come off my pedestal and grovel to him, he’s nothing to me, that was very nasty, you may not understand it but I understand it, he can take that thank you and stuff and put it where the sun don’t shine.”
On the contest itself Bruno believes he should have beaten his fellow countryman but that nerves got the better of him.
“I recall a lot, I was just too anxious before I learnt how to relax myself, but he won so I’ve got nothing bad to say about that and nothing good to say either. I should have beaten him, I should have, but nothing’s before it’s time but I should have beaten him, I was out boxing him.”
Lewis defeated Bruno by seventh round stoppage and would go on to have one of the greatest heavyweight careers of all time, beating the likes of Evander Holyfield, Tyson and Vitali Klitschko.
