Jarrell Miller's 1,003 punches against Lenier Pero put him in 10th place on the list. David Greisman examines the nine other heavyweights who've surpassed 1,000 punches and sit higher than Miller in the record books.
Tony Thompson won’t think twice about traveling to Moscow or facing an opponent that repeatedly has failed tests for performance-enhancing drugs. The veteran heavyweight contender is more than willing to fight Russia’s Alexander Povetkin on his home turf. Povetkin’s promoter, Andrey Ryabinsky, is looking for an opponent for the former WBA heavyweight champion’s return to the ring, scheduled for July 2, and Thompson wants the assignment.
Heavyweight veteran Tony Thompson does not see anything special about feared puncher Luis Ortiz (26-0, 22KOs) of Cuba. On Saturday night in Monte Carlo, Ortiz won a twelve round unanimous decision over Malik Scott. The fight was dreadful to watch and fans were lulled to sleep as Scott showed very little offense and ran for nearly the entire fight. Ortiz didn't exactly press the action, but scored three knockdowns.
If a long-discussed Dillian Whyte-Dereck Chisora fight doesn’t happen next month, Tony Thompson is more than willing to fight Whyte. Thompson is 45, but has pulled off upsets against then-unbeaten British heavyweight David Price and Cuban contender Odlanier Solis in recent years. The colorful former championship challenger doesn’t think Whyte, who’s 17 years younger than him, is nearly as good as many of the heavyweights the Washington, D.C., native has fought during his 16-year pro career.
Long-time heavyweight contender and two-time title challenger Tony Thompson (40-7) reached out to BoxingScene after hearing the news that Andy Ruiz withdrew from his October 29 bout against Hughie Fury. The colorful, always entertaining Thompson discussed a potential Fury bout, a third fight with David Price, and his last bout against Luis Ortiz. Here is what he had to say:
by David P. Greisman - The problem, Lloyd Scaife soon recognized, is that he hadn’t initially realized there was a problem. And at that moment, barely minutes after the fight he’d been scoring from ringside was over, so too was the career of the 85-year-old boxing judge. Scaife had scored fights on occasion for more than 30 years...
Last Saturday night’s KO performance by Luis Ortiz in Washington, DC registered with HBO subscribers as an average of 740,000 viewers tuned in for the matchup with Tony Thompson. The fight peaked at 807,000 viewers. The viewership numbers marked a 20% increase from the last Ortiz appearance on HBO when in December of 2015 he knocked out Bryant Jennings in Verona, NY (616,000 viewers on average).
by David P. Greisman - The first boxing card I covered live was Mike Tyson’s final bout, when he quit against Kevin McBride and I asked a question in the post-fight press conference that made him curse. It probably didn’t ever take much to make Tyson curse. Over the years I have been on press row nine times in Washington...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - WBA Interim Heavyweight World Champion Luis 'King Kong' Ortiz (25-0, 22 KOs) continued his rapid descent up the heavyweight division, knocking Tony 'The Tiger' Thompson (40-7, 27 KOs) down twice before finishing him with a huge knockout in the sixth round.
By Cliff Rold - On Saturday night at the DC Armory in Washington, DC, in front of approximately 4,300 fans, Cuban-born 36-year old interim WBA heavyweight titlist Luis Ortiz (25-0, 22 KO) of Miami, Florida, scored three big knockdowns en route to a sixth round knockout of 44-year old former two-time heavyweight title...