My time can still come, insists Grant

TEN years ago Michael Grant prepared for his world heavyweight title challenge to Lennox Lewis in New York’s Madison Square Garden by telling the watching media: “I feel my time has come.”

A decade on, Grant is still waiting, and still trying. The 6ft 7ins Grant, now aged 38, gets another chance this weekend, when he faces Poland’s exceptional former light-heavyweight champion Tomasz Adamek.

That Grant is still fighting at all is rather surprising. Articulate and educated, he didn’t take up the sport until he was in his teens, and after his quickfire failure against Lewis he largely disappeared from view.