Cliff Couser

Cliff Couser ( born May 18, 1971 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American heavyweight boxer. His nicknames are "Twin Tyson" and "The Black Bull".

Professional career

Cliff Couser is only 1,80 m tall and has a strikingly similar stature as Mike Tyson, which explains his nickname "Twin Tyson". He also has a good, though not evenly matched that of Tyson's punching power. However, he suffered many defeats; his speed and boxing techniques can not be compared with the Tysons.

Couser began his professional career in 1993 in the heavyweight class. After initial successes came early on the first setbacks, he was repeatedly ausgepunktet of mediocre opponents. In 2000, he ran against Clifford Etienne and went for the first time in his career KO But Couser was able to record even against well-known Boxer Wins: Thus he became in 1996 a KO win against James Tillis, the first boxer who had gone with Mike Tyson ends meet. One of his best fights was against Jorge Luis González (former World Cup opponents of Riddick Bowe ), he ausknockte in just three rounds. But short was followed by further defeats against Lance Whitaker and Volodymyr host ski and a no contest against Andrew Greeley.

On 9 December 2006 he punched in Hollywood against the former world champion Michael Moorer. Moorer, who had not boxed at the time of the struggle for exactly two years and also at age 39 was the elder, was seen by some critics as an outsider. Couser let himself in battle time, though had some good attacks, but then went in the first round knockout This was followed by another early defeat against Rob Calloway.

July 7, 2007 then came the highlight so far in Cousers career: He hit the clear favorite Monte Barrett (former World Cup opponent Hasim Rahman and Nikolai Valuev ) in the 2nd round knockout. It was the earliest knockout in Barrett's career.

At 27.9. Couser but then lost against Tony Thompson for his part in Round 2