Clarence Hill

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Hill, Clarence boxer
Data
Birth Name Hill, Clarence
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality Bermuda
birthday June 26, 1951
style Southpaw
size 1.87 meters
Combat Statistics
Struggles 22nd
Victories 18th
Knockout victories 15th
Defeats 3
draw 1

Clarence Hill (born June 26, 1951 ) is a boxer from Bermuda . He won a bronze heavyweight medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal .

Career

Amateur career

Clarence Hill started boxing at the Pembroke Youth Center . His first coach was Stanley Trimm, followed by Allan Rego. With a height of 1.87 meters he developed into a heavyweight with a weight of about 90 kg, who preferred the right display.

Of the sporting successes of Clarence Hills, only winning a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal is known. He started there in the heavyweight division and after a bye in the first round defeated Parvis Badpa from Iran by knockout in the third round and Rudy Gauwe from Belgium on points. So he was in the semifinals against the Romanian Mircea Simon , against whom he lost on points. If he had defeated Simon, he could have boxed for the gold medal against Teófilo Stevenson from Cuba .

This bronze medal is the first and only Olympic medal that an athlete from Bermuda has ever won to date (2012).

No other findings from Clarence Hill are known. He did not take part in the 1974 and 1978 world championships for amateurs. Nor is it included in the Pan American Games winners' lists of those years. He is also not mentioned in the winners' lists of other championships or tournaments that took place at that time.

Profile career

At the age of 29, Clarence Hill switched to the professionals in 1980. He played his first professional fight on April 14, 1980 in London and defeated the Englishman David Fry by knockout in the first round. In the further course of his career he also won the next 10 fights, which took place in England, Bermuda and the United States mostly briefly by knockout.

On August 7, 1982, in Albuquerque, he met the American Tony Tubbs , who was already seen as the future world champion. Hill scored a knockdown against Tubbs in the first round, but lost that fight on points after ten rounds.

In the further course he denied in the United States and Bermuda eleven fights against more or less mediocre opponents. He only lost two of them and boxed once for a draw. He no longer received a fight against an important opponent who would have really brought him forward. He therefore played his last fight on June 7, 1986 in Hamilton (Bermuda) , in which he defeated Mike Perkins from the USA by technical knockout in the third round.

Clarence Hill first came into contact with drugs at the age of 19. In later years (1978) and especially after the end of his boxer career, he was charged with drug offenses in the United States and had to serve long prison terms, which also included a prison sentence for an armed robbery. After his last prison sentence, however, he found his way back to a middle-class existence. He now lives in New Rochelle, New York.

swell

  • Box Sport magazine
  • Website www.boxrec.com,
  • Website www.bermuda.org.uk

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Hill, Clarence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bermuda boxer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1951