DaVarryl Williamson
DaVarryl Williamson ( born July 25, 1968 in Washington, DC, United States) is an American heavyweight boxer.
Amateur career
DaVarryl Williamson, who comes from a difficult family and has been successful in other sports, only started at the age of 25 years with the boxes. His unusual nickname of " Touch of Sleep" is because he was known during his amateur career for his punching power in his right hand, with which he " sent to sleep " many opponents. As an amateur Williamson won 120 fights ( 108 KOs) with only 17 defeats and one draw. He was from 1996 to 1998 three times in a row, American heavyweight champion, winning in 1997 and 1998 against Calvin Brock. 1996 he managed a victory over Lamon Brewster. At the 1998 Goodwill Games, he lost in the final against Félix Savón by first-round KO. For the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000, he could not qualify, because he in the qualifying tournament in each case could not prevail.
Professional career
Only in the year 2000, he was nearly 32 - year professional. He already lost his fourth professional fight by knockout, but could with Corey Sanders (not to be confused with the South African Corrie Sanders ) and Robert Wiggins later defeat two respected opponent before he went hard in the first round KO against undefeated Joe Mesi.
After two more victories, he lost in 2004 against Wladimir Klitschko. In the fourth round he indeed succeeded in a precipitate, but after the fifth round of the fight due to a heavily bleeding laceration Klitschko was canceled. Since this injury did not arise through the impact, but as a result of an accidental head clash, the battle was decided according to the rules on points.
His promoter Don King made it still possible that he could fight for the IBF world title after two more victories over the already 39 -year-old Oliver McCall and Derrick Jefferson, before Klitschko vs. Chris Byrd. He lost in a by critics as " dead boring " can actually fight relatively scarce on points.
Based on this idea, he had to get in the aftermath difficulties good opponents and remained inactive for long periods. In May 2005, he defeated the undefeated Italian-American Mike Mollo by TKO in round four.
After Vitali Klitschko could not take his scheduled for September 2007 comeback fight against Jameel McCline due to a training injury, Williamson should fight in the Framework Programme of the WBC world championship between Oleg Maskajew and Samuel Peter on October 6, 2007 at New York's Madison Square Garden against McCline. Since little later, however Maskajew also had to cancel his fight due to injury and McCline then fought against Peter, the Australian Kali Meehan was shortly obliged as a replacement opponent for Williamson. Meehan succeeded at the end of the sixth round of a precipitate. Williamson rescued Although badly damaged in the round break, but could not recover and was taken under the direction of the ring doctor before the seventh round of the fight.
He then won two fights structure before he took on 31 October 2009 compared Ray Austin and technical knockout lost in the fourth round.
Others
Prior to joining the sport of boxing, he played American football as a quarterback and completed an unsuccessful trial with NFL club Indianapolis Colts.