Boxing: Frank Maloney - Aftermath of Williams - Tyson

The English Scene
By Frank Maloney

The Aftermath of Williams - Tyson and the Way Forward

Danny Williams, as a heavy underdog, shocked the boxing world in Louisville with a fourth round stoppage of Mike Tyson. From what I've heard from the English journalists who were out there, the American journalists are all very hot and raving about Danny Williams. This 260lb+ fighter from Britain stopped the world's baddest and most notorious boxer, but those of us who know Danny Williams know that there is a certain chink in his armour. If he was as great as people were saying he is now, why has he had these two strange losses to Julius Francis and Michael Sprott, who are nothing but run of the mill fighters in Britain? If Francis and Sprott were in the American scene, they would probably be unheard of. They would be club fighters.