{"id":149861,"date":"2025-06-01T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149861\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:18:11","slug":"mike-mccallum-dead-at-68-jamaican-boxing-legend-the-bodysnatcher-found-dead-after-pulling-his-car-off-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149861\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McCallum dead at 68: Jamaican boxing legend &#8216;The Bodysnatcher&#8217; found dead after pulling his car off the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Boxer Mike McCallum held world titles in three different weight classes\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>He died in Las Vegas on Saturday while he was making his way to the gym\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-2981\/spencer-morgan.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPENCER MORGAN<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  10:52 EDT, 1 June 2025   |  Updated:  11:21 EDT, 1 June 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Jamaican boxing hero Mike McCallum has sadly passed away at the age of 68.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Hall of Fame fighter, who held world titles in three different weight classes, died suddenly in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/las-vegas\/index.html\" id=\"mol-07ff9fd0-3ef8-11f0-abaa-374fc59b4285\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Vegas<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Reports claim McCallum was on his way to the gym when he fell ill and pulled his car off the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">According to the<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2025\/06\/01\/jamaican-boxing-legend-mike-mccallum-dies-68\/\"> Jamaica Observer<\/a>, he was then found unresponsive and later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">McCallum was known &#8216;The Bodysnatcher&#8217; due to his heavy hitting style and was the first Jamaican to become a world champion in boxing,<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He did so in 1984 when he beat Ireland&#8217;s Sean Mannion at Madison Square Garden in New York, claiming the WBA Junior Middleweight crown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d412f476112c10da\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/98940765-14769727-image-a-150_1748789851799.jpg\" height=\"676\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Jamaican boxing hero Mike McCallum sadly passed away at the age of 68 on Saturday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Jamaican boxing hero Mike McCallum sadly passed away at the age of 68 on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-185a12ace6619160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/98940761-14769727-image-a-146_1748789608610.jpg\" height=\"428\" width=\"634\" alt=\"He held world titles in three different weight classes and was known as\u00a0'The Bodysnatcher'\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">He held world titles in three different weight classes and was known as\u00a0&#8216;The Bodysnatcher&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">McCallum also claimed the WBA Middleweight and the WBC Light heavyweight titles during his career and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Ring Magazine posted on X: &#8216;The Ring is saddened to learn of the passing of boxing legend Mike McCallum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The &#8216;Body Snatcher&#8217; was a three-weight world champion, having won titles at super-welterweight, middleweight, and light-heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Our deepest sympathies are with his friends and family at this time.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Mike McCallum dead at 68: Jamaican boxing legend &#8216;The Bodysnatcher&#8217; found dead after pulling his car off the road<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxer Mike McCallum held world titles in three different weight classes\u00a0 He died in Las Vegas on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,92,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-149861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-sport","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114609016366906257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}