Kevin McBride

Kevin Martin McBride ( born May 5, 1973 in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland) is an Irish boxer. McBride took in 1992 for Ireland success at the Olympic Games in Barcelona in part.

Professional career

His professional debut as a boxer gave McBride in December 1992, while he managed only a draw. He boxed at first primarily in the United Kingdom and occasionally in the United States, but suggested even for beginners ratios einzuschätzende weak opponents with generally little professional fights or a negative balance battle. The London newspaper "Boxing News" imputed to him at this time alcohol problems and training laziness.

In his 20th pro fight on February 7, 1997, he lost to Louis Monaco, at this time at four wins and six defeats standing, by TKO in the fifth round. Since his record but was impressive from the numbers here (and probably also because of its impressive visual appearance ), he stayed still marketable to a lesser extent. On August 30, 1997, he boxed in Berlin against Axel Schulz and lost by termination in round nine. He had until then been in a professional fight for more than seven rounds in the ring. Shortly thereafter, he was defeated by the British Michael Murray, who had lost his last seven fights, but McBride beat KO.

McBride moved to the USA to Brockton, where a large Irish community there. Under Goody Petronelli, the former coach of Marvin Hagler, he improved significantly and only went against DaVarryl Williamson KO. He never struck Really good opponents but also there.

The " climax "

The highlight of his career was the fight against Mike Tyson on June 11, 2005 in Washington, DC. Already in 1995 after Tyson had been released from prison, McBride had to fight him, but this failed due to McBride Gage. Also in 2004, McBride's management got to box the offer against Tyson, but you could not again agree on the amount of the fee. When in April 2005 was the battle, finally agreed to to a payment of $ 5 million and Tyson $ 250,000 for McBride. The despite the 2004 suffered knockout loss to Danny Williams traded as high favorite Tyson gave up the fight, according to points leader after the sixth round on, after McBride had struck him more or less at the end of the round ( officially no precipitation was recorded, because McBride had pushed his opponent after the blow to the ground ).

After Tyson

In August 2006, McBride should boxing Syarhey Ljachowitsch the WBO World Championship. The fight was canceled; he should now rise in October against Andrzej Gołota in the ring. Shortly thereafter, however, the encounter was canceled. Instead, he pushed on October 7 against Mike Mollo ( 16-1 Record ) and went to catastrophic performance in the second round KO. On 6 October 2007, there was still to fight Golota; McBride was in the first round to land impact hits, but was clearly dominated in the sequence. On lap six the fight was finally stopped.

9 April 2011 McBride fought at the Prudential Center in Newark (New Jersey) against the Poles Tomasz Adamek. McBride could oppose the rapidity of Adamek little, was not due to its high mass and the much lighter opponent but ko. , The technically superior Adamek, who used this fight as preparation against Vitali Klitschko, won clearly on points.

On 29 July 2011 McBride fought in Connecticut against the Poles Mariusz Wach for the vacant WBC International title. Wax dominated the fight from the outset by technical superiority and speed. McBride went in the fourth round spectacular ko and had to be transported with a carrying out of the ring.