Lou Savarese
Lou Savarese (* July 14, 1965 in New York City, NY ) is a retired American boxer.
Career
Although Savarese started relatively late with the sport of boxing, he quickly won several national amateur tournaments. At the Olympic preliminaries In 1988, he failed only to Riddick Bowe.
In 1989 he started his professional career. The counter- boxer was built carefully and won all his fights so until 1997, however, without encountering any significant opponents.
In November 1996, he finally managed to make some attention to themselves by the premature victory against Buster Mathis Jr.. His most famous fight and one of his best, the meeting on 26 April 1997 with George Foreman for the linear World Cup and the insignificant WBU title was. He lost by a controversial point decision. In his next fight he had against David Izon, however, his second defeat in a row insert, he lost by KO in the fifth round.
In 1998 he finished the mini- comeback of the weak form Tyson - Buster Douglas Vanquisher with a first-round KO. His greatest victory celebrated Savarese then in March 1999 against the then-undefeated Lance Whitaker. Whitaker could indeed beat him to the ground, but Savarese recovered and eventually won on points. The unbeaten Michael Grant then beat him on points, however, Savarese in turn had to ask twice to the ground.
In June 2000, he appeared also to Mike Tyson, but smote him after only 38 second knockout. The 40 -year-old Tim Witherspoon he could defeat prematurely in September 2002, but Kirk Johnson defeated him half a year ahead of schedule by TKO in the fourth round.
His last fight allegedly denied "Big Lou" on 7 May 2004 against the undefeated, but also quite unknown Leo Nolan. Nolan won on points. After this fight Lou Savarese hung up his boxing gloves for the time being on the nail until he entered the ring on March 18, 2006. He boxed against Marcus Rhode, he ausknockte as already five years earlier in the second round.
On June 30, 2007, he lost convincingly on points against the 44 -year-old former world champion Evander Holyfield. After the battle, he finally came back from boxing.