Darrin Van Horn

Darrin Van Horn
Data
Birth Name	Darrin Van Horn
Fight name	Schoolboy
Weight class	Super middleweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	7th September 1968
place of birth	Morgan City
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.80 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	56
Victories	53
Knockout victories	29
Defeats	3
Profile in the BoxRec database

Darrin Lee Van Horn (born September 7, 1968 ) is a former American professional boxer and IBF world champion in light middle and super middleweight.

Career

According to various sources, Morgan City ( Louisiana ), Cincinnati ( Ohio ) and Lexington ( Kentucky ) are named as birthplaces . What is certain, however, is that he spent his youth in Lexington, where he graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in journalism .

He started boxing at an early age and was able to win 45 out of 50 amateur fights by the age of 15. Shortly before his 16th birthday, he switched to the professionals in 1984. By early 1989 he won 39 fights in a row, 24 of them prematurely. In addition to a number of build-up opponents , he also beat experienced boxers with positive records such as Elio Diaz (33-2, 30 K. o.), Who was already World Cup challenger to Donald Curry , and Luis Santana (30-5, 24 K. o.), the later WBC world champion in light middleweight. He scored another victory this time against the former Olympian from Uganda, John Munduga (25-1, 18 knockout), who lives in Germany.

On February 5, 1989 he won the fight for the IBF world title in light middleweight unanimously on points against the right-interpreting title holder Robert Hines (24-1, 16 knockout) from Philadelphia and at the age of 20 became one of the youngest boxing world champions History. However, he lost in his first title defense in July of the same year on points against the Italian Gianfranco Rosi (45-3) and thus received his first defeat in 40 fights. Although Van Horn received a rematch against Rosi in Italy after five subsequent wins against insignificant opponents, but was again defeated on points.

After beating Randy Williams (12-1) on points, he received another World Cup chance from the IBF, this time in the two-tier super middleweight division. He surprisingly beat Lindell Holmes (44-5, 36 K. o.) In the eleventh round knockout and defended the title three months later by knocking out in the third round against John Jarvis (24-2, 18th K. o.). In his second title defense in January 1992 in New York, he lost to Iran Barkley (27-7) after three knockouts in the second round by technical knockout and suffered his only premature defeat. He then won six more fights in a row, including against Nicky Walker (40-11), Graciano Rocchigiani's former World Cup challenger . Another World Cup chance against Nigel Benn did not come about because Van Horn ended his career in 1994 for health reasons.

predecessor	Office	successor
Robert Hines	Light Middleweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) February 5, 1989 - July 15, 1989	Gianfranco Rosi

predecessor	Office	successor
Lindell Holmes	World Super Middleweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) May 18, 1991 - January 10, 1992	Iran Barkley

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