Elisha Obed

Obed, Elisha
Data
Birth Name	Ferguson, Everett Osvald
Weight class	Light middleweight, middleweight
nationality	Bahamian
birthday	February 21, 1952
place of birth	Nassau , Bahamas
Date of death	June 28, 2018
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.82 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	114
Victories	88
Knockout victories	59
Defeats	20th
draw	4th

Elisha Obed (born February 21, 1952 as Everett Osvald Ferguson in Nassau , † June 28, 2018 ) was a Bahamian boxer . He was the WBC world champion of professional light middleweight boxers .

Career

Obed began boxing when he was twelve in Nassau, Bahamas. As a teenager, he played 46 amateur fights, all of which he won. At the age of 15 he played his first professional fight on September 15, 1967 in Nassau, which he won over his compatriot Taylor Ventura by knocking out in the first round. By 1973 he had played 36 fights, of which he won 34. One fight ended in a draw, it was the revenge against Taylor Ventura, and he lost one fight on December 11, 1967 against the 26-year-old Kid Carew, who was too experienced for the beginner at the time. On April 8, Obed was in the 6th round by a technical knockout victory over Sugar Cliff champion of the Bahamas welterweight .

On October 19, 1973, he played his first fight on US soil in Boca Raton , Florida . He defeated it Jose Melendez from Puerto Rico by knockout in the 8th round. On November 12, 1973 in Miami Beach he defeated the Florida master Dennis Riggs by knockout in the 4th round and became known to a broader US audience. In the next few years he fought alternately in Florida and the Bahamas. He remained victorious in almost all of these fights and boxed his way up the world rankings in the light middleweight division one by one. On January 21, 1975 in Miami Beach he won the North American Championship by a technical knockout victory in the 11th round over the Canadian Fernand Marcotte .

On November 13, 1975 Obed got the chance to box in Paris against the Brazilian Miguel de Oliveira for the world title of the WBC in the light middleweight division. He used this chance and became the new world champion with a technical knockout victory in the 11th round . He defended this title on February 28, 1976 in Nassau against the American Tony Gardner and on April 24, 1976 in Abidjan against Sea Robinson from the Ivory Coast . On June 18, 1976 he boxed in the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin against the German Eckhard Dagge again for the world title. Up to the 9th lap he was in the lead and had Dagge several times on the verge of precipitation. In the 10th round he was hit hard by Dagge twice and sent to the ground and was taken in the same round by the referee because he was unable to defend himself on the ring. He lost his world title to Dagge.

On March 11, 1978 Obed got another chance to box for the WBC world light middleweight title. He met the Italian- born Australian Rocky Mattioli in Melbourne and was knocked out in the 7th round. After this defeat, Obed boxed mostly in the Bahamas or Florida until 1988. He won many of these fights, but suffered a few defeats, especially towards the end of his career. On September 2, 1978 he was defeated in Berlin by the Yugoslav Marijan Beneš after 10 rounds on points, and on October 31, 1978 he lost in Munich to Georg Steinherr with the same result. By the end of his career, he had contested 114 fights, of which he won 88.

swell

• Box Sport trade journal from 1965 to 1988

Web links

• Elisha Obed's fight record

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elisha Obed passes. In: The Nassau Guardian. June 20, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018 .