Tragically, on the 28th of October 2006, the ex-heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick was murdered at a church in Norwich. He suffered multiple blows to the head which resulted in him dying at the scene of the attack.
Many people will only ever remember Trevor Berbick as the last guy to fight Muhammad Ali or the guy that got brutally knocked out by “Iron” Mike Tyson, but this is a short biography of the late boxing legend that recently lost his life.
He was born on August 1, 1955 (although it may have been 1954) in Jamaica. When he was 16 he claimed to have had a vision from God which was the first of many colourful events in an eventful, yet troubled, life. At the age of 21, Berbick represented his Jamaica in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada as a heavyweight boxer, even though he only had only 11 amateur bouts before this. This lack of experience was clearly shown as he lost to the eventual silver medalist: Romanian Mircea Simon; even though he still showed a lot of potential as a young heavyweight boxer.

After the Olympics Berbick left Jamaica decided to fight professionally in Canada (read more…)