Glen Johnson (boxer)

Glen Johnson fighting Carl Froch (2011)

Glen Johnson (* 2. January 1969 in Clarendon , Jamaica , as Glengoffe Donovan Johnson ) is a Jamaican boxer who sensationally was 2004 world champion boxer.

Career

Johnson's amateur career was 35-5. He boxed mostly in Florida. Eventually he turned pro. After 30 wins against unknown middleweight opponents, he met the light middleweight Sam Garr who had 20 wins against equally bad opponents and scored him. He was then listed in the top ten in the middleweight division by Ring Magazine, which thought a lot of him. Shortly afterwards he got a title fight against Bernard Hopkins but had no chance and went KO. It was the only knockout loss in the good taker's career that had something to do with the fact that he had difficulty getting the weight off. He immediately moved up a class.

In the super middleweight division he lost to the puncher Merqui Sosa and the weak former world class boxer Kiwanuka, who could still beat him on points, but got another title fight at the IBF against Sven Ottke in 1999 . He was only barely defeated. He then lost three more times in a row in 2000, against southpaw Syd Vanderpool, Silvio Branco and Omar Sheika .

Sensational success in the light heavyweight division

In 2001 he was invited to Germany as the opponent of the undefeated amateur star Thomas Ulrich . Here he landed his first big win and knocked out Ulrich. But in 2002 he lost again in his only fight that year against Derek Harmon. In 2003 he started again with a defeat against Julio González . At this time, however, the big turning point in his career with his new manager Henry Foster and especially with the new Cuban coach Orlando Cuellar.

He boxed with Daniel Judah in a draw and defeated his first US American world class opponent southpaw Eric Harding . He was then allowed to box for the IBF light heavyweight title, against the Englishman Clinton Woods . The first fight was a draw, the rematch in 2004 he won on points.

Shortly before that, Antonio Tarver , another southpaw, had knocked out the weak superstar Roy Jones junior , Jones did not want to play again directly against Tarver and arranged a match with the lower-rated Johnson. But here, too, Jones Jr was in weak form and lost significantly by a knockout. Even now Johnson was not yet considered number one, that was the first Jones conqueror Tarver. At the end of the year he also defeated this, albeit by a controversial split decision, and was named boxer of the year by Ring Magazine and USA Today .

In 2005 he lost in a rematch with Tarver, in 2006 he lost in the third fight for the first time against Woods. After he was then able to win his next three fights, he got on April 12, 2008 the chance against Chad Dawson , the world champion of the WBC to compete. He lost this fight by a unanimous decision on points.

List of professional fights

50 wins (34 knockout wins), 15 losses (1 knockout loss), 2 draws
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Johnson
1993	19th of February	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States	Yurek Del Rio	Victory / TKO 1st round
	27th of March	Georgetown, Cayman Islands	Jerry Reyes	Victory / KO 3rd round
	June 26th	Newcastle, North Carolina, United States	James Mullins	Victory / KO 3rd round
	August 30th	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States	Anthony Brooks	Points victory (majority decision) / 4 rounds
	October 22nd	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States	Dwayne Waldon	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
1994	April 8th	Cape Coral, Florida, United States	Ralph Monday	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	5th of August	Miami Beach, Florida, United States	Vincent Godbolt	Victory / KO 3rd round
	September 3	Miami Beach, Florida, United States	Jesus Carlos Velez	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	September 8th	Davie Arena, Davie, Florida, United States	Joe Harris	Victory / TKO 4th round
	15th October	Miami Beach, Florida, United States	Gustavo Gonzalez	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	November 19th	Miami Beach, Florida, United States	Jesus Carlos Velez	Points win (split decision) / 8 rounds
	December 16	Miami Beach, Florida, United States	Bill Bradley	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
1995	February 6th	West Palm Beach, Florida, United States	Edison Martinez	Victory / KO 3rd round
	February 25	Miami Beach, Florida, United States	Carlos Betancourt	Victory / TKO 1st round
	25th March	Miami Beach, Florida, United States	Tyrone Dillard	Victory / KO 1st round
	June 27th	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States	John McClendon	Victory / KO 1st round
	22nd of July	Miami Beach, Florida, United States	Jesus Carlos Velez	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	September 8th	Hialeah, Florida, United States	Melvin Wynn	Victory / TKO 4th round
	November 28th	Bell Auditorium, Augusta, Georgia, United States	Jerome Hill	Victory / TKO 1st round
1996	January 16	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States	Bill Bradley	Victory / KO 1st round
	February 24th	Miami Beach, Florida, United States	Danny Mitchell	Victory / KO 2nd round
	26th of March	Immokalee, Florida, United States	Guy Stanford	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	12. April	Atlantis Casino, Cupecoy Bay, St Maarten, Netherlands Antilles	Kenneth Parker	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	June 11th	Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, Connecticut, United States	James Gatlin	Point victory (majority decision) / 6 rounds
	15th June	Nassau, Bahamas	Tom Bentley	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	29th of July	Hallandale, Florida, United States	Gerald Reed	Points win / 10 rounds
	August 24th	Valdosta, Georgia, United States	David McCluskey	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	October 1	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States	Jeff Johnson	Victory / TKO 5th round
	November 2	Nassau, Bahamas	Stacy Goodson	Victory / KO 2nd round
	6th of December	Miami, Florida, United States	Ralph Monday	Victory / KO 1st round
1997	February 25	Pyramid, Long Beach, California, United States	Sam Garr	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	June 7th	Hawthorne Race Course, Cicero, Illinois, United States	Dave Hamilton	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	20th of July	Fantasy Springs Casino, Indio, California, United States	Bernard Hopkins	Defeat / TKO 11th round
	13th December	Concord Plaza Expo Center, Northlake, Illinois, United States	Merqui Sosa	Point loss (unanimous) / 10 rounds
1998	4th of August	The Palace, Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States	Joseph Kiwanuka	Loss of points (split decision) / 10 rounds
1999	February 26th	Sho-Ka Reservation, Hopland, California, United States	Armando Campas	Victory / KO 6th round
	April 22	Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Texas, United States	Troy Watson	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
	July 31	Chumash Casino, Santa Ynez, California, United States	Augustine Renteria	Victory / TKO 4th round
	October, 16th	Oranjestad, Aruba	Marcelo Zimmerman	Victory / TKO 1st round
	November 27th	Philipshalle , Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany	Sven Ottke	Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
2000	January 28th	The Ruins, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States	Syd Vanderpool	Point loss (unanimous) / 10 rounds
	April 15th	Padova, Veneto, Italy	Silvio Branco	Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
	2th of June	Blue Horizon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	Omar Sheika	Point loss (majority decision) / 10 rounds
	September 23rd	York Hall, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom	Toks Owoh	Victory / TKO 6th round
2001	July 28th	Estrel Convention Center, Neukoelln, Berlin, Germany	Thomas Ulrich	Victory / KO 6th round
2002	April 14th	Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Derrick Harmon	Point loss (unanimous) / 10 rounds
2003	January 24th	Crowne Plaza Hotel, Commerce, California, United States	Julio Cesar Gonzalez	Point loss (majority decision) / 10 rounds
	4. April	Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, Connecticut, United States	Daniel Judah	Tie / 10 rounds
	May 18	Jimmy's Bronx Cafe, Bronx, New York, United States	Eric Harding	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
	November 7th	Hillsborough Leisure Center, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom	Clinton Woods	Tie / 12 rounds
2004	February 6th	Ponds Forge Arena, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom	Clinton Woods	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
	25th of September	FedEx Forum, Memphis, Tennessee, United States	Roy Jones Junior	Victory / KO 9th round
	December 18th	Staples Center , Los Angeles, California, United States	Antonio Tarver	Points win (split decision) / 12 rounds
2005	18th of June	FedEx Forum, Memphis, Tennessee, United States	Antonio Tarver	Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
	30. September	Cache Creek Casino Resort, Brooks, California, United States	George Khalid Jones	Victory / TKO 10th round
2006	February 24th	Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Florida, United States	Richard Hall	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
	September 2nd	Bolton Arena, Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom	Clinton Woods	Loss of points (split decision) / 12 rounds
2007	May 16	Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Florida, United States	Montell Griffin	Victory / TKO 11th round
	July 27th	Sheraton Miami Mart Hotel, Miami, Florida, United States	Fred Moore	Victory / KO 5th round
2008	January 5th	Ballys Park Place Hotel Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Hugo Pineda	Victory / TKO 8th round
	12. April	St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Florida, United States	Chad Dawson	Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
	November 11th	Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Florida, United States	Aaron Norwood	Victory / TKO 4th round
2009	27th of February	Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Florida, United States	Daniel Judah	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	November 7th	XL Center, Hartford, Connecticut, United States	Chad Dawson	Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
2010	February 5th	NSU Arena, Don Taft University Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States	Yusaf Mack	Victory / TKO 6th round
	August 7th	Scottrade Center , Saint Louis, Missouri, United States	Tavoris Cloud	Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
	November 6th	MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Allan Green	Victory / KO 8th round
2011	June 4th	Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Carl Froch	Point loss (majority decision) / 12 rounds
(Source: Glen Johnson in the BoxRec database)

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