Ross Puritty

Ross Puritty
Data
Birth Name	Ross Di Marco
Fight name	The boss
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	18th December 1966
place of birth	El Paso , Texas
style	Left delivery
size	1.91 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	54
Victories	31
Knockout victories	27
Defeats	20th
draw	3

Ross Puritty (born December 18, 1966 in El Paso , Texas , USA ) is a retired American boxer .

Professional career

Puritty mainly served as a build-up opponent for more prestigious boxers throughout his career . Before his boxing career, he was a football player . In 1989 he became a professional boxer without having previously competed in an amateur fight. So he lost two of his first fights against Cleveland Woods and the bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in 1988 Alexander Miroshnichenko prematurely without boxing basic training , but the Miroshnichenko was abandoned because of an eye injury. Woods knocked him down twice in round 1 and won by technical knockout.

Derrick Roddy was the first opponent with a positive record to beat. He set the first exclamation mark in 1994 in the fight against the former WBO world champion Tommy Morrison , who after his sensational defeat against Michael Bentt wanted to box some build-up opponents and believed he had an allegedly easy victim in Puritty with his 8-8 record at the time. After a few relaxed opening rounds, Morrison got stamina problems, as so often, so that Puritty was able to knock him to the ground twice towards the end of the fight. The fight finally ended in a draw.

Then he got ten knockout victories in a row against opponents, of which only one had a positive record. It was not until 1996 that he lost to the then undefeated Hasim Rahman and Michael Grant on points.

At the end of 1996 and beginning of 1997, however, he managed to win against well-known opponents, namely Jorge Luis González and the black-footed Indian Joe Hipp, according to the same pattern as in the Morrison fight - waiting through the opponent's initial offensive until he ran out of strength . González had previously boxed for the WBO , Hipp for the WBA world title . Subsequently, however, Purrity lost the next three fights against Corrie Sanders , Larry Donald and Chris Byrd .

In December 1998 he achieved his most famous victory against the 22-year-old undefeated Olympic champion from 1996, Wladimir Klitschko . The fight took place in Kiev and Klitschko wanted to impressively win as early as possible in front of his home crowd. Although he dominated the fight, he was not knocked out. Puritty, on the other hand, was able to benefit from the onset of exhaustion of his inexperienced opponent according to the tried and tested pattern and turned the fight around. Klitschko was completely exhausted from the fight in the eleventh round by his trainer Fritz Sdunek , who hurried into the ring.

On December 8, 2001, Puritty took part in a fight against Vitali Klitschko , which was marketed as "Brother's Revenge". He didn't seem like he was in 1998 when he beat Vitali's younger brother. Klitschko finally won in the eleventh round by TKO . Couldn't knock him down though. The fight was stopped due to a laceration . This was Puritty’s first premature defeat in 40 fights.

Since then he has not been defeated prematurely. Other well-known opponents against whom he faced and lost included Kirk Johnson , Brian Nielsen , Timo Hoffmann , Alexander Dimitrenko and Eddie Chambers . Ross Puritty lost a total of 20 of his 54 fights, only three times prematurely.

List of professional fights

Web links

• Ross Puritty in the BoxRec database