A year or so after Lennox Lewis had become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, he fought David Tua, a heavy-handed New Zealander, in November 2000 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas for the WBC, IBF and IBO versions of the crown.
It was the first time I had been to a heavyweight world title fight in Vegas and I bought into a lot of the hype about Tua’s devastating left hook and the evidence of a record that showed he had knocked out decent fighters like John Ruiz and Hasim Rahman.