UFC Hall of Famer Pat Miletich returned to action in his birthplace of Davenport, Iowa Saturday night, but ended up on the wrong end of a split-decision verdict against former world champion boxer Michael Nunn at “Clash of Legends.”
At the age of 52, former UFC welterweight champion Miletich was actually the younger man in the ring against 57-year-old Nunn, but it was the former two-division world boxing champion who held the upper hand in their kickboxing matchup at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds.
The judges scored their four-round bout 37-39, 39-37, 40-36 in favor of former IBF middleweight and WBA super middleweight champion Nunn, whose last professional boxing match was 18 years ago, back in January 2002.
Miletich admitted after the fight, “I looked like a catcher’s mitt,” while Nunn, who served 199 months of a 292-month prison sentence between 2002 and 2019, said he was a little disappointed the fight didn’t continue for another couple of rounds.
“He got me with a couple of right hooks,” he said. “I knew I had two more rounds in me, but they said it was all over.”
The fight was watched in front of an estimated crowd of around 3,500 spectators, including former UFC champions Tim Sylvia and Matt Hughes, while Michael Nunn’s brother-in-law, legendary former San Francisco 49ers running back Roger Craig, was also reportedly in attendance, wearing a disguise.
Also in action on the card was 44-year-old former UFC, Bellator and PRIDE fighter Jeremy Horn, who claimed a third-round TKO victory over 50-year-old Minnesota cruiserweight Marty Lindquist.
