DaVarryl Williamson

DaVarryl Williamson
Data
Birth Name	DaVarryl Jerome Williamson
Fight name	"Touch of Sleep"
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	July 25, 1968
place of birth	Washington, DC
style	Left delivery
size	1.91 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	32
Victories	26th
Knockout victories	22nd
Defeats	6th

DaVarryl Williamson (born July 25, 1968 in Washington, DC , United States ) is an American heavyweight boxer.

Amateur career

DaVarryl Williamson, who comes from a difficult family background and was also successful in other sports, only started boxing at the age of 25. His unusual nickname "Touch of Sleep" stems from the fact that during his amateur career he was known for his punching power in the right hand, with which he "sent many opponents to sleep". As an amateur, Williamson won 120 fights (108 KOs) with only 17 losses and one draw. He was the American heavyweight champion three times in a row from 1996 to 1998, winning against Calvin Brock in 1997 and 1998, respectively . In 1996 he won a victory over Lamon Brewster . At the Goodwill Games 1998 he lost in the final against Félix Savón by first-round knockout. For the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000 he could not qualify because he could not prevail in the qualifying tournament.

Professional career

It wasn't until 2000 that he turned professional at almost 32 years of age. He lost his fourth professional fight by knockout, but later defeated two respected opponents, Corey Sanders (not to be confused with the South African Corrie Sanders ) and Robert Wiggins, before he was hard knocked out against the unbeaten Joe Mesi in the first round.

After two more wins, he lost to Wladimir Klitschko in 2004 . In the fourth round he managed to knock down, but after the fifth round the fight was stopped because of a badly bleeding laceration Klitschko. Since this injury was not caused by the impact of a blow, but as a result of an unintentional head collision, the fight was decided according to the rules according to points.

His promoter Don King made it possible, however, that after two more victories, over the 39-year-old Oliver McCall and Derrick Jefferson , he was allowed to box for the IBF world title before Klitschko against Chris Byrd . He lost relatively close to points in a fight that was perceived by critics as "boring".

Because of this idea he had difficulties to get good opponents in the following years and remained inactive for longer periods. In May 2005 he defeated the undefeated Italian American Mike Mollo by technical knockout in round four.

After Vitali Klitschko was unable to compete in his comeback fight against Jameel McCline due to a training injury planned for September 2007 , Williamson was supposed to box against McCline in the framework program of the WBC World Championship between Oleg Maskayev and Samuel Peter on October 6, 2007 in New York's Madison Square Garden . Since a little later, however, Maskayev had to cancel his fight due to injury and McCline then fought against Peter, the Australian Kali Meehan was signed at short notice as a substitute for Williamson. Meehan managed a knockdown at the end of the sixth lap. Williamson saved himself badly battered into the round break, but could not recover and was taken out of the fight on the instructions of the ring doctor before the seventh round.

He then won two build-up fights before he faced Ray Austin on October 31, 2009 and lost by technical knockout in the fourth round.

Others

Before entering boxing, he played American football as a quarterback and successfully completed trial training at the NFL club Indianapolis Colts .

Web links

• DaVarryl Williamson in the BoxRec database
• Official website