Our feature guest this week is former boxing heavyweight world champion "Hercules" Mike Weaver.
Mike offers some fascinating insights into his bizarre start in military boxing, his inauspicious pro boxing debut (A KO Loss), overcoming early defeats, becoming a contender, challenging Larry Holmes, scoring the most unlikely of world title victories, life as champion, controversially defending the title in Apartheid South Africa, Jesse Jackson, aborted contests with Muhammad Ali and Gerry Cooney, losing the title under suspect circumstances, Don King, aging as a fighter, returning to South Africa, Lennox Lewis, reviving his career in China, boxing into his late 40s, Mike Tyson, and his advice to young athletes, plus much more.
