Calvin Brock

Calvin Brock ( born January 22, 1975 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American heavyweight boxer.

Amateur

Brock began at the age of twelve years with the boxes, but lost his first six fights. In 1996, he failed in the qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in Atlanta in the heavyweight division in the late bronze medalist Nate Jones, so that he was provisionally denied a part in the Olympics. In 1997 and 1998 he lost a heavyweight (up to 91kg ) at the U.S. Amateur Championships in the final each his nemesis DaVarryl Williamson ( four losses in four fights ), 1998 but he won the Golden Gloves to 91kg, after his promotion to the super heavyweight he could finally in 1999 to win the championship.

He qualified in 2000 for the Olympic Games in Sydney, but was clearly defeated in the very first round of the tournament by Paolo Vidoz. Vidoz succeeded in the course of combat, a precipitate in consequence of the referee then broke off the fight because of the clear superiority of the Italian, a defeat that indulges him until today. He led his power back to the hard training to the Olympic team. His amateur balance was 147-38.

Professional career

He wrote after the Olympic Games at the Main Event, his manager, Jim Thomas, who also supervised Evander Holyfield. The Ring Magazine greeted him with the prediction that no Olympic athlete will perform worse than him.

As a professional, he first punched a number of unknown structure opponents, he made the only positive headlines by a brutal blow hand -KO vs. Jim Strohl. The unbeaten Terry Smith (then 20-0-1 ) was a fairly well-known amateur in the U.S., but the televised point victory Brocks enthusiastic in May 2004 barely.

Even against a clearly no longer boxing Clifford Etienne in top shape he was in early 2005 for many of the outsider. But he clearly won by TKO in the third round after he beat three times to soil his opponent before.

The far most important victory of his professional career he succeeded against Jameel McCline. He had in the seventh round to the ground, put the precipitation but away and was still able to win on points. It appeared again questions about his abilities to taker. Even after this fight, there were talks about a title fight with Vitali Klitschko.

The despite streaky balance ( 20-10 ) quite prestigious Zuri Lawrence ( winner over McCline and Paolo Vidoz ) he could strike hard KO with a single left hook. This was the one remarkable, as he had previously never noticed by special impact hardness and secondly otherwise mostly achieved his KOs with the batting.

In June 2006, then followed a rather lackluster point victory against the undefeated Uzbek Timur Ibragimov. Now advanced by the victory at the third position in the IBF rankings, he offered himself as the opponent for a voluntary defense of the title holder Wladimir Klitschko. The fight took place at New York's Madison Square Garden on November 11, 2006. Brock lost by knockout in the seventh round, the first loss of his professional career. He received $ 1.2 million fight purse for this fight.

His next two fights he won, but made ​​no convincing impression. Yet he was by the IBF, selected for a qualifying tournament for the right to be allowed to challenge the IBF world champion. Brock met on 2 November 2007 as part of this tournament on his compatriot Eddie Chambers, losing just by a 1:2 judges decision.

One after the performed Chambers fight, failed eye surgery that left him blind in his right eye, forcing him to end early career.

He now works as a real estate broker at the Nichols Company.

Others

He is regarded as very religious, one of his hobbies is tap dancing. In 1999, Brock, whose parents are both academics, his degree ( "Bachelor 's Degree " ) in Business Administration at the University Charlotte. He then worked for nine months for Bank of America as "Operation Analyst Call ". This earned him his unusual nickname " The Boxing Banker".

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