Kevin Johnson (Boxer)
Kevin Johnson ( born September 7, 1979 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) is an American boxer in the heavyweight division.
Career
Kevin Johnson began at the age of 18 years with the sport of boxing. After 16 amateur fights (14 wins and two defeats) 2003 he was pro. His first professional fight, he played on 13 February 2003, he technical knockout won in the fourth round.
In just his fourth fight punched Johnson in June 2004 against the much more experienced Uzbek Timur Ibragimov, who was unbeaten at this time in thirteen professional fights. Johnson achieved a draw in the vierründigen fight. In the following years he hit mostly little-known structure opponents. Since his victory against Damian Willis he was ( previously only one defeat against Chris Arreola ) in 2007, despite his unspectacular Boxstils with relatively low co- quota next Arreola as one of the American hopefuls in the heavyweight division.
His hitherto -known opponents was in Atlantic City Bruce Seldon on September 5, 2008. Against the 41 -year-old Seldon, mid-1990s, briefly known WBA world heavyweight champion and his loss to Mike Tyson, Johnson won by technical knockout in the fifth round. Subsequently, he was an opponent of the Ascended in the heavyweight British cruiserweight champion David Haye in an interview, but then instead of competing against Monte Barrett.
On 15 May 2009, Johnson won against the undefeated Devin Vargas technical knockout in round six, and thus rose to sixth place in the WBC world rankings. A scheduled bout against Cuban Odlanier Solís he said in September 2009 from short-term since he instead got a chance against Vitali Klitschko boxing 12 December 2009 for the WBC World Championship. Despite aggressive co- announcements in the run-up to the duel Johnson denied the fight in the Berne PostFinance Arena very passive and defensive, so he clearly lost to the much more active titleholder Klitschko on points. At the end of twelve rounds two judges evaluated each All rounds Klitschko's favor, while the third judge Johnson credited rubbed a round. Nevertheless, we succeeded Johnson with this negative way of fighting as only the second boxer after Timo Hoffmann, with Vitali Klitschko over the full distance of twelve rounds to go.