He’s not got enough skill and could not cope with my jab so basically he gave up

He’s not got enough skill and could not cope with my jab, so basically he gave up. Lennox Lewis

The referee did very well stopping him because when Lennox Lewis started unloading on him, I would have said much more of that and Oliver McCall could have been killed. Maloney
We saw someone having a nervous breakdown in the ring. He was physically fit to fight, he had all the tests and reports and was in shape.

We will be holding an investigation into the fight because the people of the world deserve an explanation. Jose Sulaiman, WBC PresidentHe was talking incoherently in the corner but he had been doing it all week The man wasn’t there. George Benton, McCall’s trainer.My sympathy goes out to McCall, but he should never have been allowed into the fight because he was not physically ready for it. Dino Duva, joint promoterIf a kid’s in rehab, you must not let him into a major fight This should not happen again. Bob Arum, leading American promoter.I have never seen anything like it in my boxing life, any fight.

I have refereed 36 world title fights and I never thought I would see anything like this In that fourth round I simply did not know what to do I’d never seen anything like that before. British judge Larry O’ConnellThis was one of Lennox’s best fights but it will be tarnished because of McCall’s behaviour Jim WattLennox Lewis was physically afraid of Oliver. He hit him with everything, and it still didn’t mean a thing. Don King, McCall’s promoterPeople like Don King shouldn’t be allowed to be in boxing He’s a disgrace to the human race. MaloneyI hate the way people are knocking [Oliver McCall] now He’s just a fine person When I was with him I knew he was crying out for love That’s all he wants He’s a guy who wanted people to spend time with him People didn’t have that time.

Emanuel Steward, Lewis’s trainer, and former aide to McCall.. All things are possible for Naseem Hamed now. He not only retained his unbeaten record in unifying the World Boxing Organisation and International Boxing Federation world featherweight titles by beating the American Tom “Boom Boom” Johnson in London last night, but also overcame a real examination of temperament and character. Briefly Hamed’s splendid opponent threatened to repay him for all the cringing boastfulness he had been made to undergo throughout the week leading up to the fight. There was, however, no answer to the brutal right uppercut with which the showman from Sheffield ended proceedings slightly more than two minutes into the eighth round.

It came all the way from Hamed’s ankles and seemed to travel all the way down to Johnson’s in return.
The 32-year-old from Indiana, who had 11 times defended the IBF title, fell to his knees and slumped The referee, Rudy Battle, had no option but to stop it But Hamed knew by then that he had been in a contest. Paying tribute to Johnson, in contrast to the positive malevolence he had exhibited in previous days, he said: “He’s a brilliant fighter with a great chin I have all the respect for him There has been nobody who’s knocked him down. I said the third round, but he took some very good shots.”He did indeed. While it may not reduce the Prince’s swagger it may just make him think twice before disparaging future challengers. Still, the clinical manner of his finish did not make it possible to doubt his off- quoted prediction that he will go up the weights as his career progresses.Hamed preened as ever.