I didn’t really know who this was, but I just heard it on The Adam Carolla Radio Show and found it bizzare. This guy fought Tyson.

Trevor Berbick was a Jamaican heavyweight boxer who fought as a professional from 1976 until 2000. He was the victim of a homicide near his hometown of Norwich, Jamaica. Berbick briefly held the WBC heavyweight title in 1986, before losing it to Mike Tyson. He was also noted for being the last man to fight Muhammad Ali, winning their 10-round contest in Nassau, Bahamas on December 11, 1981 by unanimous decision.

On October 28, 2006, he was murdered at a church in Norwich, Jamaica by an assailant wielding a hatchet or possibly a machete, according to multiple news sources. He suffered a “gaping wound to the head” which resulted in him dying at the scene of the attack.

Police have arrested a man in connection with the death, and were interrogating him at the Port Antonio police station in Portland as of early in the morning of October 29. Local residents have indicated that the suspect, a 20 year old man whose name has not been released pending his arraignment, was involved in a land dispute with Berbick.

Berbick’s Wikipedia

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