Howard Eastman

Howard Eastman
Howard Eastman (2006)
Data
Birth Name	Howard Anthony Eastman
Fight name	The Battersea Bomber
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	Guyanese
birthday	December 8, 1970
place of birth	New Amsterdam
style	Left delivery
size	1.80 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	62
Victories	49
Knockout victories	38
Defeats	13

Howard Anthony Eastman (born December 8, 1970 in New Amsterdam , East Berbice-Corentyne ) is a British-Guyanese professional middleweight boxer. He is a former two-time European champion at the EBU and a World Cup challenger to William Joppy and Bernard Hopkins .

Private

Howard Eastman was born and raised in New Amsterdam before moving to London with his parents, two brothers and sister at the age of 15 . His younger brother Gilbert Eastman (* 1972) also practiced professional boxing and was British Southern Area champion in the light middleweight division. Howard Eastman is married with three children.

Boxing career

Eastman trained at the Battersea Boxing Club in London and took part in tournaments in London as an amateur boxer from 1991 to 1993, before moving to professional life in 1994. He won his first 32 professional fights in a row, 29 of them prematurely. He won a number of regional titles, including British Champion , Intercontinental Champion of the IBO and WBA , and Commonwealth Champion . On April 10, 2001 he became the new European Middleweight Champion ( EBU ) in London after defeating his compatriot Robert McCracken (33-1, 20 K. o.) By tKo in the tenth round.

On November 17, 2001 he boxed in Las Vegas against William Joppy (32-2) for the WBA Middleweight Championship, but was subject to controversial points. At the end of the fight, Joppy had revealed a lack of physical condition and tried to compensate for this by clinging and evading. A few seconds before the end of the fight, Joppy finally went down after two head hits, but was declared the winner with 2-1 judges' votes.

In January 2003, Eastman won the EBU title again by an early victory against the Frenchman Christophe Tendil, who was taken out of the fight by the ring doctor due to several facial injuries. After successful title defenses against Scott Dann (15-1), Hacine Cherifi (34-7) and Sergei Tatewosjan (21-3), as well as a win against Jerry Elliott (37-4), he got another World Cup chance against Bernard Hopkins (45-2).

He boxed on February 19, 2005 in Las Vegas for the world championship belt of all four major world associations (WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF), but lost to Hopkins unanimously on points. In July 2005 he also lost on points against Arthur Abraham in Nuremberg . In March 2006 he was defeated in a world championship title elimination match against Edison Miranda for the first time prematurely by technical knockout.

After two consecutive wins against Richard Williams (21-3) and Evans Ashira (26-2), he had to accept two defeats against Wayne Elcock and John Duddy. After the loss to Duddy, he boxed from now on in Guyana and won the national middleweight championship there on July 5, 2008. He celebrated one last significant victory on October 25, 2008, when he managed a points win against former WBA world champion Andrew Lewis (23-3).

Web links

• BoxRec (English)