WATCH: Scores gather for boxing legend Mike McCallum’s send-off
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Scores of mourners gathered Saturday at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kingston to bid farewell to late Jamaican boxing legend Mike McCallum.
He died on May 31 in Las Vegas, United States at the age of 68.
Nicknamed the “The Bodysnatcher” due to his hard-hitting body punches, McCallum was the first Jamaican boxer to win a world title, doing so in 1984 when he defeated Irishman Sean Mannion at Madison Square Garden in New York to lift the WBA Junior Middleweight crown.
McCallum also won the WBA Middleweight and the WBC Light heavyweight titles, and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003.
In 2011, the respected Ring Magazine ranked McCallum eighth on its list of “10 best middleweight title holders of the last 50 years.”
He was also a seven-time Jamaica Sportsman of the Year recipient.
**Video by Joseph Wellington**
