WHEN BRITS COLLIDE
LENNOX LEWIS W RSF 7 FRANK BRUNO
OCTOBER 1993
FRANK MALONEY didn’t bother watching the boxing at the 1988 Olympics. Why would he? He was not a major promoter and, anyway, the fighter everyone wanted to sign afterwards was Canadian.
Reporters in Las Vegas covering Lloyd Honeyghan-Marlon Starling discovered a link between Maloney and Olympic super-heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis – and rang to tell him the news.
“They said: ‘Imagine how good it would be to have a British world heavyweight champion?’” remembered Maloney. “I said there wasn’t much chance of that because Frank Bruno and Gary Mason were with Mickey Duff.
“But they told me the Olympic super-heavyweight champion, Lennox Lewis, was from West Ham and that his brother, Dennis, knew my brother, Eugene. I checked it out and it turned out to be true.
“I pursued Lennox on the ‘phone. Lennox wanted to come to Britain to see
