Marvin Johnson

Marvin Johnson
Data
Birth Name	Marvin Johnson
Weight class	Light heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	April 12, 1954
place of birth	Indianapolis
style	Legal display
size	1.83 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	49
Victories	43
Knockout victories	35
Defeats	6th

Marvin Johnson (born April 12, 1954 in Indianapolis ) is a retired American boxer.

amateur

South African Johnson won the 1971 U.S. Light Heavyweight Championship and Golden Gloves . In the year he moved to the middleweight division and again won the Golden Gloves tournament. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich he won the bronze medal. He beat there, among others, the German Ewald Jarmer and the Cuban Alejandro Montoya, before he went KO against Vyacheslav Lemeschew from the Soviet Union in the semifinals.

professional

He turned pro in 1973 and won his first 15 fights before he met his feared opponent Matthew Saad Muhammad in a fight for the North American Championship in July 1977 and lost in the twelfth and final round by technical knockout. He boxed a spectacular style of attack with good punching power, but did not pay much attention to his defense and only had average taker skills. In June 1978 he lost to Lottie Mwale on points, but then got on December 2, 1978 quite undeservedly a world championship fight against WBC title holder Mate Parlov . He took this opportunity and knocked out his opponent. But already in his first title defense five months later, he had to surrender the belt to Matthew Saad Muhammad after a premature defeat.

However, Johnson quickly got another title chance. On November 30, 1979 he boxed against the respected Argentine Víctor Galíndez for the WBA title and was able to prevail by technical knockout in round ten. But he only held this belt for a few months, because in his first defense he was prematurely defeated by Eddie Mustafa Muhammad .

In 1984 he was knocked out briefly against the undefeated Olympic champion Michael Spinks . In 1984 he defeated "Prince" Charles Williams on points and defeated Eddie Davis prematurely, so that he could once again box a world championship fight. Against the not particularly respected WBA world champion Leslie Stewart from Trinidad , he won his third world title on February 9, 1986, but lost the rematch and then retired from boxing at the age of 33.

Web links

• Marvin Johnson in the BoxRec database