Former world boxing champion Michael Nunn beat Pat Miletich in a kickboxing match on Saturday. That’s a hell of a sentence to type yet so typical of combat sports and befitting of 2020.
In happier times, Nunn was the undefeated IBF middleweight champion when he took on Sumbu Kalambay in March of 1989. Kalambay was a masterful boxer who notably defeated Mike McCallum, Herol Graham, and Iran Barkley as the WBA middleweight champion. This was not a unification bout due to Kalambay not taking on their mandatory challenger, so Sumbu was stripped, but this was clearly a battle of two of the best 160 lbs boxers in the world.