No funeral date has been set for Mike McCallum, the boxing great who died on May 31 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Leroy Brown, general manager of the Jamaica Boxing Board and friend of his family, said they are awaiting details on McCallum’s death from authorities.

“They say that there is no news yet and word is that it’s going to take some time before the autopsy is completed,” Brown told the Jamaica Observer.

Reports out of Las Vegas stated that McCallum, 68, was driving to the gym where he worked as a trainer when he fell ill. Shortly after pulling off the road, he was found unresponsive by police and pronounced dead.

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Brown, who spoke to McCallum two weeks before his death, said he is in regular contact with his relatives in the United States.

McCallum was among a group of amateur boxers who trained at the Guinness Gym in the early 1970s under the guidance of trainer Emelio Sanchez. His contemporaries included future heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick and flyweight Richard “Shrimpy” Clarke.

He fought as a welterweight at the 1976 Montreal Olympics where he reached the quarter-finals. Illness prevented him from competing in the Moscow Olympics four years later and he turned professional in 1981.

At Madison Square Garden in October 1984, McCallum won his first title. That was the WBA super welterweight division, beating Irishman Sean Mannion.

He went on to win the WBA middleweight and WBC light heavyweight titles.

Conditioned by American Lou Duva, McCallum defeated several highly-rated opponents in the 1980s such as Julian Jackson of the United States Virgin Islands, and Americans Milt McCrory and Donald Curry.

– Howard Campbell