Greg Page

Greg Page
Data
Birth Name	Gregory Edward Page
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	October 25, 1958
place of birth	Louisville
Date of death	April 27, 2009
Place of death	Louisville
style	Left delivery
size	1.88 m
Range	2.06 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	76
Victories	58
Knockout victories	48
Defeats	17th
draw	1

Greg Page (born October 25, 1958 in Louisville , Kentucky , † April 27, 2009 ) was an American heavyweight boxer and WBA world champion.

amateur

Even as an amateur, Page was joking with Muhammad Ali , who was also from Louisville . He was the American heavyweight champion in 1977 and 1978 and won the national Golden Gloves tournament in 1978 . His amateur record was 90 wins out of eleven losses.

Professional career

In 1979 Greg Page made his professional debut. He showed quick hands, good punching power, a good chin, but rarely the ambition to make something of his enormous talent.

He was able to defeat the World Cup challengers Alfredo Evangelista and Scott LeDoux prematurely in 1981 and beat the veteran Jimmy Young in May 1982 on points. But only a month later he surprisingly lost to Trevor Berbick on points.

So, despite victories against "Quick" Tillis and Renaldo Snipes, they didn't trust him much. This assessment also seemed to be confirmed, because in the fight for the vacant WBC world title he lost to Tim Witherspoon on March 9, 1984 .

Now he was classified as beatable and was in demand as a challenger for a supposedly easy title defense. So there was still the opportunity for another world championship fight. As an outsider, he beat Gerrie Coetzee in South Africa on December 1, 1984 by knockout in the eighth round and won the WBA world title. But already in the first title defense in 1985 he lost the belt to Tony Tubbs . In the next fight he was defeated by James "Buster" Douglas .

He then boxed until 2001, but was never able to build on his old successes. During this period he lost to Joe Bugner , Donovan Ruddock , Francesco Damiani , Bruce Seldon and Monte Barrett, among others .

He completed his last fight on March 9, 2001 against Dale Crowe . His severe knockout in the tenth round resulted in serious health problems: He suffered a stroke , a traumatic brain injury and permanent left-sided paralysis, of which he died on April 27, 2009 at the age of 50. The Kentucky Athletic Commission sharply criticized the circumstances at the ring: There were not enough medical staff on site, there was no ambulance and documents had shown that he was only transported to a hospital after 45 minutes.

Web links

• Greg Page in the BoxRec database

predecessor	Office	successor
Gerrie Coetzee	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) December 1, 1984 - April 29, 1985	Tony Tubbs