So watch out George [Foreman], because Joe’s coming back” – Bugner, only a month agoImminent, or so he would have us believe.Lloyd HoneyghanJamaican-born welterweight known as the “Ragamuffin man”, who stopped the brilliant Don Curry in 1986. Won 43 of 48 fights including one of the quickest ever, beating Gene Hatcher in 45 seconds.Retired after being wiped out by American Mark Breland in three one-sided rounds in his last world welterweight title fight in 1990.Returned in 1993, denying it was for the money. Won Commonwealth title but lost second comeback fight and found himself fighting in places like Peterborough and Elephant and Castle. Quit in April under the advice of the Board of Control.Not many people noticed.Already working as a trainer to a number of boxers in Las Vegas.”I still get a kick out of boxIng – and it pays the bills” – Honeyghan, forgetting for once that he wasn’t back in boxing for the moneyVegas slot-machine attendant.Ben JohnsonSet 100m world record and won gold at Olympics in 1988. Then took one hour and six cans of low- alcohol beer to provide the urine sample which tested positive for steroids and shocked the world.In disgrace.

Was involved in nightclub brawl, charged for pointing gun at a motorist on Toronto highway, campaigned against drugs.Came back in 1991, was said to have received pounds 260,000 for first five races Insisted he could reach old highs Never came close. Played torturer in 1994 Jean Claude van Damme film Street Fighter.”I can take on anything and do it well. Celebrity status secured fleeting popularity on Sydney social scene.Toyed with a discus career and leading an America’s Cup bid Now broke after wine business failed. Attempted film career in Hollywood, then emigrated to Australia to fight alimony demands of his first wife.Came back in 1986, now 36, as “Aussie Joe”, won three fights in Australia before partaking in a pantomime of a contest against Frank Bruno at White Hart Lane where he was beaten in five rounds.General amusement. Went distance with Ali in 1975.Stop-start career finished in 1984. Defensive boxer, talked better game than he fought, took British heavyweight title from Henry Cooper in 1971.

Changed to a modern graphite racket, yet lost in the first round of all 12 events he played. Quit in 1993.World reactionPerfectly expressed by John McEnroe; “It’s hard to imagine someone that’s had his success to be happy losing every match he plays.”AftermathSlunk out of Moscow after his last comeback game declining to play a doubles match with Boris Yeltsin. Now plays on seniors tour, still repaying business debts.Famous lastwords”I’m just glad I played a good match on the tour” – Borg, after taking a set off Alexander Volkov in his last comeback game.Nextcomeback?As a prophet for the return to tennis with wooden rackets.Joe BugnerSchoolboy discus champion who escaped from Hungary aged six. Went into a series of failed relationships, periods of drug abuse, financial catastrophe and an apparent suicide attempt.ComebackAt the 1991 Monte Carlo Open, using an old Donnay wooden racket: was beaten 6-2 6-3 by Jordi Arrese, an unfancied Spaniard. Bjorn Borg

Career
Iceman pin-up from Sweden who came to Wimbledon and won five times in succession, 1976-80, without shaving on a single occasion. Brought to the game unstoppable top-spin and perfect manners.RetirementIn 1983, aged 26. But Martina is someone she knows well and has a good rapport with and who will basically try to help.” Seles deserves all of that The rest is up to her..

It would be tough to go out and play a peer, someone else who is at the top. Both women have dismissed John McEnroe’s suggestion that it would be arranged for Navratilova to lose the match, but as Shriver said, “It’s a very appropriate first step. CBS won the bidding, at an estimated cost of $500,000, to include an exclusive interview with Seles. And the match had to be guaranteed to go ahead, which explains why, in spite of it being high summer, it is happening indoors. Rain was not a risk anyone could run.The choice of opponent is equally judicious. “When she decided to do it, six or seven weeks ago, IMG said, ‘Are you still interested?’ ” Rose explained last week “We certainly were.”Then there was the television deal. Rich Rose, the president of Caesars World Sports, realised this as long as two years ago, when he first told the International Management Group, agents to both Navratilova and Seles, that his organisation would be keen to promote it.

Which was why Seles’s comeback match was always going to be a hot property, stage-managed to the advantage of all concerned. And at 21, with Graf’s days apparently numbered, Seles still has scope to rewrite the record books.A lot will be revealed on Saturday. Now, what the mind does and how much that lets her be her old self, those are questions that nobody can answer.” Navratilova thinks she knows “She is going to be awesome,” she said. “She would serve the ball and then knock the heck out of it both sides And she was incredibly tough. There’s a lot about her game that should make it easier for her than if it had been Navratilova, say, with her complicated game Monica really has one dimension to worry about. “It wasn’t as if she constructed points or had any fancy formula,” she said.