Elisha Obed

Elisha Obed ( born February 21, 1952 in Nassau, Bahamas) is a former boxer from the Bahamas. He was world champion professional boxer in the Light Middleweight.

Career

Elisha Obed whose real name was Everett Osvald Ferguson, came up with 12 years in Nassau / Bahamas to boxing. As a teenager, he played in the Bahamas 46 amateur fights, of which he won. The age of 15, he played on September 15, 1967 in Nassau his first professional fight, he won over his compatriot Taylor Ventura by KO in the 1st round. By the year 1973, he punched thirty-six times in the Bahamas. From these fights he won 34 A fight was a draw, it was the revenge against Taylor Ventura and only a fight he lost at December 11, 1967 against the 26 -year-older Kid Carew, who was just too experienced for the then beginners. On April 8, Elisha Obed was in Nassau Bahamas welterweight champion of the OK by a technical victory in the sixth round of Sugar Cliff.

On October 19, 1973, he denied in Boca Raton, Florida and his first fight on U.S. soil. He defeated while Jose Melendez of Puerto Rico by KO in the 8th round. On November 12, 1973, he defeated the champion in Miami Beach Florida Dennis Riggs by KO in the 4th round and was known by a wider American audience. In the next few years he fought then alternately in Florida and the Bahamas. He was victorious in almost all these fights and punched in the world rankings in the light middleweight train to train up. On January 21, 1975, he won in Miami Beach's North American championship in light middleweight by a tech. Knockout victory in the 11th round of the Canadian Fernand Marcotte.

On November 13, 1975 Elisha Obed got the chance in Paris against Brazilian Miguel de Oliveira for the world championship title of the WBC boxing in the light middleweight division. He took advantage of this opportunity and was a tech. Knockout victory in the 11th round of new world champion. This title he defended on February 28, 1976 in Nassau against the Americans Tony Gardner and on 24 April 1976 in Abidjan against Sea Robinson from the Ivory Coast successfully. On June 18, 1976, he punched in the hall in Berlin, Germany against the unpredictable German Eckhard Dagge again to the world title. To the 9th round, he was placed with about 2 -point lead and had Dagge several times on the edge of a precipitate. In the 10 lap but he was hit by Dagge twice hard and sent to the ground and arrested for Verteidigunsunfähigkeit on the ring still in the same round by the referee. He thus lost his world title to Eckhard Dagge.

On March 11, 1978 Elisha Obed was another chance for the WBC world title in the light middleweight boxing. He arrived in Melbourne on the Italian-born Australians Rocky Mattioli and subject to that by KO in the 7th round. He could not take his chance then.

After this defeat, boxed Elisha Obed, mostly in the Bahamas or in Florida until 1988. He won many of these battles, but had to, especially late in his career, also insert some bitter defeats. He also fought twice in Germany. On 2 September 1978, he was defeated in Berlin against the Yugoslavs Marjan Benes after 10 rounds on points and on 31 October 1978, he was defeated in Munich against Mr. Georg Stein with the same result.

At the end of his career, he had played 114 fights, of which he won 88.

Swell

• Trade journal Box Sport from 1965 to 1988
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