Merqui Sosa

Merqui Sosa
Data
Birth Name	Merqui Sosa
Fight name	El Corombo
Weight class	Light heavyweight (last)
nationality	Dominican
birthday	November 9, 1965
place of birth	San Pedro de Macorís
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.87 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	45
Victories	34
Knockout victories	27
Defeats	9
draw	2

Merqui Sosa (born November 9, 1965 in San Pedro de Macorís , Dominican Republic ) is a former Dominican professional boxer who fought in the middleweight, super middleweight and light heavyweight division. In 1993 he challenged the WBA world champion Michael Nunn and the later boxing legends James Toney and Roy Jones junior .

Career

Merqui Sosa was trained by Pat Versace and Ramon Paula and made his professional debut in December 1987. He won 18 development fights, 14 of them prematurely, with 13 opponents showing a positive match record. He played his first big fight on January 13, 1991 in Atlantic City against the also undefeated James Toney , but lost the fight by split point decision (1: 2). In a 1993 interview, Toney described Sosa as the hardest hitting opponent of his career to date.

In March 1991 he defeated Tyrone Frazier, the nephew of boxing legend Joe Frazier , but lost again in May 1991 by split point decision against Tony Thornton, who was also defeated in 1993 by James Toney. In January 1992 he boxed a draw against the later WBA world champion Steve Little and lost in October 1992 standing by TKO in the twelfth round against the later WBA world champion Frankie Liles .

Sosa was led by the WBA to 10th in the world rankings of the challengers and on December 18, 1993 boxed himself for the WBA world title in the super middleweight division against Michael Nunn . The duel, which was held at the Estadio Cuauhtémoc in Puebla , Sosa lost unanimously on points.

In January 1995, his light heavyweight fight against Charles Williams in the seventh round had to be canceled for health reasons, as Sosa had suffered a broken cheekbone and a swollen right eye, as well as Williams tears on his left eyelid. The rematch was held on June 30, 1995, with Sosa won by knockout in the tenth round and thus also North American champion of the NABF .

On January 12, 1996 Sosa boxed in Madison Square Garden in New York City against Roy Jones junior , who competed in the light heavyweight for the first time. Sosa went down in the second round for the first time in his career and then lost standing due to the referee breaking off (TKO).

In July 1996 he defeated the former IBO World Champion Karl Willis and in June 1997 the Kazakh Asluddin Umarow, who was the 1996 World Cup challenger to Dariusz Michalczewski . In August 1997, he won against Glenn Thomas, who had previously only lost to James Toney, Roy Jones Junior and Mike McCallum . In December 1997 he surprisingly won against later IBF world champion Glen Johnson , who had only lost to Bernard Hopkins and defeated Roy Jones Junior in 2004.

In March 1998 he narrowly lost by split decision to the undefeated Kenny Bowman and suffered a unanimous loss to Ray Berry in May 1998. He then played only four fights, of which he lost two prematurely against Thomas Tate and James Butler . He won his last fight on June 16, 2000 against Segundo Mercado, who boxed a draw with Bernard Hopkins in 1994 and was Frankie Liles' 1997 World Cup challenger.

After his active career, he became a boxing coach for amateurs and professionals.

Others

His fights against James Toney, Charles Williams, Thomas Tate and James Butler were all broadcast on ESPN , his fight against Michael Nunn on Showtime and his duel with Roy Jones on HBO .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ James Toney vs. Merqui Sosa, BoxRec
2. ↑ Merqui Sosa, IMDb

Web links

• Merqui Sosa , BoxRec