Egerton Marcus ( born Egerton Marcus ; born February 2, 1965 , Georgetown ) is a Canadian boxer of Guyanese descent, a representative of the medium and light heavyweight categories.
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| Nickname | Egerton emba | |||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Canada | |||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | February 2, 1965 (54 years old) | |||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Georgetown , Guyana | |||||||||||||
| Accommodation | Toronto Canada | |||||||||||||
| Weight category | Light Heavy (79.4 kg) | |||||||||||||
| Growth | 177 cm | |||||||||||||
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| First fight | April 14, 1989 | |||||||||||||
| The last battle | July 21, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Number of battles | 22 | |||||||||||||
| Number of wins | 17 | |||||||||||||
| KOs | 12 | |||||||||||||
| Defeat | four | |||||||||||||
| No one's | one | |||||||||||||
| Team | Ontario Boxing Academy | |||||||||||||
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He played for the Canadian boxing team in the second half of the 1980s, silver medalist at the Seoul Summer Olympics , winner of the World Cup silver medal, three-time champion of the Canadian national championship, winner and winner of many tournaments of international importance.
In the period 1989-2007, he successfully boxed on a professional level, was a contender for the IBF light heavyweight world title.
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Biography
Egerton Marcus was born on February 2, 1965 in Georgetown , Guyana . He was the third child in a family of five children, has two brothers and two sisters. In 1973, he moved with his parents permanently to Canada , spent his youth in Toronto , and began boxing there - trained at the Ontario Boxing Academy.
His uncle Charles Amos was a well-known boxer, performed at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , and cousin Troy Ross was a participant in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, a successful professional boxer.
Amateur career
Egerton first made his name in 1984, becoming the champion of Canada among juniors in the middle weight category. A year later, he won the adult national light heavyweight championship, joined the main national team of the Canadian national team and visited the World Cup in Seoul , from where he brought the silver dignity award - lost to the Soviet boxer Nurmagomed Shanavazov in the decisive final match.
In 1986, he returned to middleweight and again won the standings of the Canadian national championship. At the international level, he won the Canadian Cup in Montreal, received a silver medal at the international Simon Bolivar tournament in Caracas, took bronze at the TSC tournament in Berlin and at the Felix Stamm Memorial in Warsaw. He boxed at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and at the World Championships in Reno , but could not get here among the winners.
In 1987, for the third time in a row, he became the Canadian boxing champion, celebrated his victories at the Felix Stamm Memorial, at the French Open, at the Tampere international tournament, at the Box Open international tournament in Stockholm, where he defeated a strong Soviet in the final Middleweight Ruslan Taramov .
Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul - the first four rivals in the tournament bracket successfully passed the category of 75 kg, including defeating Sven Ottke from West Germany and Said Hussein Shah from Pakistan at the quarter-finals and the semi-finals, respectively, however, in a decisive final match with a score of 0: 5, he was defeated by the representative of the German Democratic Republic Henry Maske and thus received a silver Olympic medal [1] .
Professional career
Soon after the end of the Seoul Olympics, Marcus left the location of the Canadian national team and in 1989 he successfully made his debut on a professional level. He played mainly in the United States, won 14 consecutive victories over five years, including winning and defending the North American Boxing Federation (NABF) light heavyweight title three times. One of the most significant victories during this period was a victory over American Olympic champion Andrew Maynard ahead of schedule in the eighth round.
Having risen in ratings, in 1995 Egerton Marcus got the right to challenge the World Boxing Federation (IBF) title, which at that time belonged to the German Henry Maske, Marcus rival in the Olympic Games finals. The Canadian boxer went to Germany and entered the ring against Maske, now on a professional level. The confrontation between them lasted all the allotted 12 rounds, as a result, the judges unanimously gave the victory to Maske, retaining the champion belt for him.
Subsequently, Marcus tried to win the title of champion of Central America according to the World Boxing Council (WBC), the title of champion of North America according to the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and the title of intercontinental champion according to the version of the International Boxing Organization (IBO), but he lost all three champion matches.
In October 2001, in a fight for the Canadian heavyweight title, he was defeated by technical knockout from compatriot Donovan Raddock , after which he decided to end his career as a professional boxer.
He returned to professional boxing for a short time in 2007, gaining the upper hand over little-known American boxer Carl Gatright.
Notes
- ↑ Based on materials from the amateur-boxing.strefa.pl database
Links
- Egerton Marcus - professional boxing statistics for BoxRec
- Egerton Marcus - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com