Eddie Chambers

Eddie Chambers
Eddie Chambers
Data
Birth Name	Eddie Chambers
Fight name	Nearly
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	March 29, 1982
place of birth	Pittsburgh
style	Left delivery
size	1.85 m
Range	1.91
Combat Statistics
Struggles	47
Victories	42
Knockout victories	23
Defeats	5

Eddie Chambers (born March 29, 1982 in Pittsburgh , USA ) is an American boxer.

Professional career

Eddie Chambers turned professional in 2000 at the age of 18 after only four years as an amateur , in which he played 85 amateur fights and boxed mostly light heavyweight . He fought mainly in his home state Pennsylvania against initially nameless opponents , which is why he was initially hardly noticed. But Chambers steadfastly boxed one opponent after another and won, often only on points. The years 2004 and 2005 saw a significant increase in the strength of his opponents, he now beat more renowned opponents such as Ross Puritty , Robert Hawkins and Domonic Jenkins and the former World Cup challenger Ed Mahone. He boxed against Jenkins so convincingly that he was signed by Goossen Tutor , a well-known US doctoral company. He is occasionally compared to Chris Byrd , also a rather small boxer for the heavyweight division without great punching power, but with quick hands and good taker skills, who was able to assert himself successfully in the premier class. In contrast to Byrd, Chambers is a left-wing sender . He served Wladimir Klitschko as a sparring partner before his fight against Calvin Brock .

In 2007 he started with a fight against New York's Derek Rossy (15-0), who weighed 115 kg and was also unbeaten, whom he clearly mastered in his hometown with cleared boxing and beat him prematurely. He achieved an advanced title of the IBF and a position in their ranking list. Shortly afterwards, he also beat Dominick Guinn .

In autumn 2007 the IBF Association set up an elimination tournament with four participants, the winner of which could challenge the IBF World Champion. Chambers defeated his compatriot Calvin Brock in this tournament on November 2, 2007 by a narrow point victory and then fought on January 26, 2008 in the final against the also undefeated Russian Alexander Powetkin , who was able to prevail against Chris Byrd . Chambers lost the fight in the Berlin Tempodrom over twelve rounds on points and had to accept his first defeat as a professional boxer.

After three successful development fights and a points victory on March 27, 2009 over the former WBC title holder Samuel Peter , he was able to defeat the Ukrainian Alexander Dimitrenko, who was traded as a heavyweight hope, clearly on points on July 4, 2009 in Hamburg in an elimination match of the WBO association and rose thus becoming the official challenger of IBF and WBO world champion Wladimir Klitschko . The fight with Klitschko finally came on March 20, 2010 in the Düsseldorf ESPRIT arena , Chambers was knocked out with difficulty in the twelfth round after a left hook.

Chambers played his last professional fight on April 30, 2016 against Gerald Washington. He lost unanimously on points. The fight was scheduled for 8 rounds.

List of professional fights

35 wins (18 knockout wins), 3 defeats , 0 draws
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Chambers
2000	December 29th	Mountaineer Race Track, Chester, West Virginia, United States	Tyrone Austin	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2001	3 March	Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, United States	Ed Barry	Victory / KO 1st round
	7th of April	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States	Scott Hosaflook	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	20th of April	Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, United States	Joe Lenhart	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	23rd June	Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, United States	Anthony Prince	Victory / KO 1st round
	3rd August	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States	Joe Lenhart	Points win / 6 rounds
	August 25	Pepsi Roadhouse, Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, United States	Carlos Igo	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	October 27	St. John's Arena, Steubenville, Ohio, United States	Mark Johnson	Victory / TKO 4th round
2002	26th of April	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States	David Chappell	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
	May 24th	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	David Chappell	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	September 20th	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Antonio Colbert	Victory / TKO 5th round
	6th of December	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Dean Storey	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
2003	21st of February	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Kevin Tallon	Victory / TKO 1st round
	April 25	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Craig Tomlinson	Victory / TKO 4th round
	15th of August	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Allen Smith	Victory / KO 2nd round
	December 5th	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Sam Tillman	Victory / TKO 3rd round
2004	27th of February	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Cornelius Ellis	Point victory (majority decision) / 8 rounds
	April 23	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Marcus Rhode	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	25th June	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	John Sargent	Victory / TKO 1st round
	8th October	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Ron Guerrero	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	3rd of December	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Louis Monaco	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2005	April 22	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Melvin Foster	Victory / TKO 5th round
	17th of May	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Ross Puritty	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	the 9th of September	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Robert Hawkins	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2006	February 10th	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Andrew Greeley	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
	2th of June	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Ed Mahone	Victory / TKO 4th round
	August 19th	Reno Events Center, Reno, Nevada, United States	Domonic Jenkins	Victory / TKO 5th round
2007	February 9	Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, United States	Derric Rossy	Victory / TKO 7th round
	May 4th	Palms Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Dominick Guinn	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	November 2	Emerald Queen Casino, Tacoma, Washington, United States	Calvin Brock	Points win (split decision) / 12 rounds
2008	January 26th	Tempodrom , Kreuzberg , Berlin, Germany	Alexander Powetkin	Loss on points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
	20th June	Royal Watler Cruise Terminal, Georgetown , Cayman Islands	Raphael Butler	Victory / TKO 6th round
	October 3	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Livin Castillo	Victory / TKO 5th round
	13th December	Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, Cabazon, California, United States	Cisse Salif	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
2009	27th of March	Nokia Theater, Los Angeles, California, United States	Samuel Peter	Points victory (majority decision) / 10 rounds
	July 4th	Color Line Arena , Altona, Hamburg , Germany	Alexander Dimitrenko	Point victory (majority decision) / 12 rounds
2010	March, 20th	ESPRIT arena , Düsseldorf , Germany	Wladimir Klitschko	Loss / KO 12th round
2011	February 11th	Bally's Atlantic City, Atlantic City , United States	Derric Rossy	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2012	June 16	Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA	Tomasz Adamek	Loss / 12 rounds
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Others

His younger brother is a professional light welterweight, boxing under the name Steve Upsher (Chambers); he has a 2007 record of 15-1-1-1.

Web links

• Eddie Chambers in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BoxRec database