Michael Nunn, 57, fought on Saturday. And he won. In front of a crowd. Strange times, indeed.
Nunn, the former two-division titleholder who was released from prison last year, defeated former UFC star Pat Miletich, 52, by a split decision in a four-round kickboxing fight Saturday in Nunn and Miletich’s hometown of Davenport, Iowa.
The fight took place in front of a crowd of about 3,500 at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in spite of the coronavirus pandemic.
Nunn won by scores of 39-37, 37-39 and 40-36 even though he hadn’t fought since 2002. He served 199 months of a 292-month prison sentence for drug trafficking between 2002 and last year.
Miletich acknowledged that he didn’t give a stellar performance, saying, “I looked like a catcher’s mitt.” Meanwhile, Nunn evidently felt good. He wished the fight had gone on longer.
“He got me with a couple of right hooks,” Nunn said. “I knew I had two more rounds in me, but they said it was all over.”
Nunn (58-4, 38 KOs as a boxer) was one of the best fighters in the world pound-for-pound in the late 1980s and early ’90s.