Danny Williams (Boxer)

Danny Williams (born 13 July 1973 in London, United Kingdom ) is a British heavyweight boxer.

Amateur

At the European Championships in 1993 in Bursa, he finished in the heavyweight ( to 91 kg) took third place. In 1994 he was at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria (Canada) in the super heavyweight also third parties, he was defeated there in the semifinals of the Nigerian Duncan Dokiwari. In 1995 he took part in the Amateur World Championships in Berlin and lost in the first battle against Attila Levin from Sweden. Williams' record as an amateur boxer was 29 wins and six defeats.

Professional career

Danny Williams started his professional career in 1995. Against his first known, but not necessarily high-class opponents Julius Francis (then balance 19-7 ) he had in April 1999 after poor performance insert a point defeat. Two years later, both boxed again against each other and Williams won by knockout in the fourth round.

For his fight against Mark Potter in 2000, he was widely praised, because he early dislocated his shoulder, his opponent but still managed to beat with the other arm KO. In 2001 he recorded alongside the victory over Francis a knockout win after just 32 seconds of the first round against the unbeaten Australian Kali Meehan. This was not assessed at that time too high, he had never fought outside of Oceania. Later (2004) boxed Meehan but against Lamon Brewster for the WBO world title and lost only scarce and controversial on points.

Then Williams came against Michael Sprott at ( conqueror of Timo Hoffmann) and won by KO in round seven. On 8 February 2003, he lost in Germany a battle for championship against the Turks Sinan Samil Sam. He had gone as a favorite in the fight, but was outclassed and went in the fourth round three times to the ground. The fight was eventually stopped in the sixth round. In September he pushed back against Michael Sprott and defeated him again prematurely, this time already in round five. On January 24, 2004, both boxed for a third time against each other; this time to Sprott could prevail on points.

On 30 July 2004 Williams defeated surprisingly the returned to the ring Mike Tyson at the Freedom Hall in Louisville (Kentucky) by knockout in the fourth round. His victory, however, was favored by a knee injury Tysons, which the former World Champion had suffered in the first round. After Williams points lay far behind. In the first two rounds saw a very fast Tyson. In round three Williams were deducted points additionally because of a deep shock and looking up. Tyson brought Williams in all four rounds to falter, but the larger and heavier Englishman proved taker skills and did not go to the ground.

By his victory over Tyson Williams recommended for a title fight against Vitali Klitschko. On December 11, 2004 Williams lost this voluntary title defense Klitschko by TKO in the eighth round. He was beaten in the first, third, seventh and eighth round to the ground and could never be seriously dangerous to the Ukrainians.

After this defeat, he returned to England and punched by a structure struggle against the undefeated Olympic gold medalist Audley Harrison, he was able to send to the ground and beat just on points.

Then it was another long-awaited duel against his unbeaten 39 -year-old compatriot Matt Skelton, a former K- 1 fighter, which he narrowly won on points on 2 February 2006. With this fight, Williams wanted to recommend for a fight for the WBO title against WBA titleholder Nikolai Valuev. Williams' coach said, however, that his protege was still far from this dream fight.

After building the fight against Adnan Serin, Williams won by knockout in the third round, it came on 8 July 2006 at the Millennium Stadium to one ( by Williams as a way station to a world title fight scheduled ) rematch against Skelton, since the first fight almost was and entertaining. Williams rose to the highest ever fighting weight of his career ( over 130 kg) in the ring and lost by unanimous decision.

The rematch against Audley Harrison he lost, although again with his usual fighting weight of just 120 kg, now in its third round technical knockout. After it then already been speculation about his retirement from boxing, he was able to defeat the undefeated Scott Gammer by KO in the ninth round and win back the British Championships in March 2007. He weighed one with only 103.5 kg, the lowest weight since his pro debut.

8 December 2007 Williams punched against the Ukrainian Oleg Platov. After Platov dominated the duel at the beginning, certain Williams in the second round of the fighting. Platov retired by accidental head clash a laceration to. Because of this violation of the fight in the fourth round was canceled and got no rating.

On 30 May 2008 Williams succeeded the Spanish in Bilbao Barakaldo under controversial conditions a win over the previously unbeaten German Konstantin Airich. For a low blow Williams', was down for the count because of its effect Airich, Williams got a deduction of two points. Williams was down for the count in the third round after several severe effect hits twice while standing, also Airich was a further precipitate in the fourth round credited as Williams slipped during Rundenerlaufs. In the fifth round Williams, another point was deducted for lookup. At the end of the round he scored a also favored by slipping the opponent precipitation. In the sixth round, he had a further precipitate, whereupon Airichs promoter Ahmet Öner the Turk, went to the timekeeper's table, the round bell -operated and thus arbitrarily shortened the round by about half. In the seventh round Öner then threw in the towel, what a victory by technical knockout meant for Williams.

In July 2008 he defeated in the fight for the British Heavyweight Championship John McDermott just on points, although three points him were withdrawn (due to low blows and spitting out the mouthguard ) in the course of combat. He was November 8, 2008 denying a rematch against McDermott. This, however, had to cancel because of a rib injury the fight, whereupon Williams boxed against Poland 's Albert Sosnowski, against whom he surprisingly technical knockout lost in the eighth round.

On 2 May 2009, there was the rematch against McDermott in which Williams British heavyweight title was at stake; he won on points. In October 2009 he took part in the organized by the British television channel Sky Sports TV heavyweight tournament " Prizefighter " part, where they lost already his first fight over three rounds on points and also had to in the first round twice to the ground. After he lost his British Masters title on 15 May 2010 by a TKO in the second round defeat to the unbeaten Derek Chisora ​​, Danny Williams ended his career, but only temporarily. On March 5, 2011, he came back into the ring and knocked a structure opponents in Bielefeld in the second round. A month later, Williams László Tóth suggested in the first round KO. On 25 June 2011, he then lost in the seventh round by TKO against Manuel Charr. He then won two more fights in the same year.

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