O'Neil Bell

O'Neil Bell ( born December 29, 1974 in Montego Bay) is a Jamaican boxer and world Cruiserweight champion.

Professional career

Bell started at the age of 20 years with the amateur boxing and played only twelve fights before turning pro in 1998. In his first professional fight, he defeated William Holyfield, Evander Holyfield 's cousin, by a first-round KO. However, early in his second fight, he suffered his first defeat, a knockout in the fourth round by the Algerian Olympian Mohamed Benguesmia.

After a series of 22 wins, among others, against former world champion Arthur Williams and Kelvin Davis, and a draw, he qualified for a fight for the vacant IBF world title on 20 May 2005 against Canadian Dale Brown and won by the belt one point victory. He then defended the title against the South Africans Sebastiaan Rothmann and then united on 7 January 2006 by a premature victory against the WBA and WBC champion Jean -Marc Mormeck the titles of the three major global associations ( WBA, WBC, IBF). This was last Evander Holyfield in 1988 succeeded. In March 2006, Bell complained dental problems and therefore refused to defend his IBF mandatory challenger Steve Cunningham to compete. Thus, the IBF title he was stripped, so that Bell only owned was henceforth the WBA and WBC belt.

In March 2007 he lost the rematch in France the WBC and WBA titles by unanimous decision back to Mormeck. The fight was overshadowed by the fact that rounds were canceled too soon. A year later, he lost against Tomasz Adamek by KO and gave it his retirement from boxing known.

When a comeback attempt in 2011 he lost to Richard Hall. After a subsequent win over Rico Cason Bell ended his career again.

Others

Bell moved at the age of seven years with his parents to the United States over. He has two brothers and two half sisters and one daughter. For religious reasons, he renounced his former combat name " Give ' em Hell " and later called himself " Super Nova ".