“We’re going to become heavyweight champion of the world. They have a five-year timeline for Ruddock’s second career, and it includes a world title.
Like Foreman, he dabbled in business, developing a line of trash compactors named The Boxer.īut Ruddock’s product never took off the way Foreman’s did, and though he’s best remembered for a pair of competitive brawls with Mike Tyson in 1991, Ruddock was never a world champ.Ī generation later, he and wife Tritcha say that will change. He’s lean now but says he peaked at more than 300 pounds. Like Foreman, Ruddock’s long layoff included weight gain. He parlayed the fame gained from his second career into entrepreneurial success, his name gracing a popular line of indoor grills. Donovan (Razor) Ruddock, left, with Canadian boxing legend George Chuvalo and opponent Dillon Carman, answers questions at Wednesday's boxing press conference.įoreman ended a decade-long hiatus in 1987, challenged unsuccessfully for a world title in 1991, and won a world championship in 1994 at age 45. “If you take care of your body, train and stay in physical condition, it has nothing to do with age,” Ruddock said Wednesday at a news conference announcing the fight card. By returning, he hopes to prove clean living and a positive attitude can stop the aging process the way he once stopped opponents with his thunderous left hand. native Dillon Carman for a national title. For real.Īfter 13 years away, Ruddock is three fights into his comeback and facing Belleville, Ont. The Kitchener-raised Lewis, 49 and long retired, will be there as co-promoter of the showdown for the Canadian heavyweight title on Sept. Next month the pair will share the ring for a title fight at Ricoh Coliseum. On Halloween night in 1992, Lennox Lewis met Donovan (Razor) Ruddock in a high-stakes clash in London - the top two heavyweight contenders on the globe meeting to see who would advance to a world title fight.īack then, Lewis flattened Toronto’s Ruddock in two rounds and later became an undisputed world champ.
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