Steve Bunce
@BigDaddyBunce
Voice of boxing
THE bus left from the side of Madison Square Garden and at that point I had never been inside the building. I was surely the only Garden virgin on the bus.
It was early November in 1989, it was bitterly cold and the Saturday before in Atlantic City, Evander Holyfield had stopped Alex Stewart in a bloodbath. It is one of the lost heavyweight fights, a testimony to Holyfield’s desire to fight anybody at any time.
The bus was going to the Poconos, to the training camp for Gentleman Gerry