Eight days before fight night, Hide and Bentt went toe-to-toe outside the Sheraton Park Tower Hotel in London. The scrap made global news and left both fighters with cuts and bruises and the ...

Then: On Oct. 29, 1993, Bentt was a lightly regarded challenger to then-WBO heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison. Bentt, a New Yorker, had a 10-1 record when he faced Morrison in an ...

Smith shared that “the hardest I’ve ever been hit on a movie set” was during the making of Ali. When the injury occurred, Smith was working on set with a trainer and Michael Bentt, who played boxer ...