Shannon Briggs

Shannon Briggs
Data
Birth Name	Shannon Demont Briggs
Fight name	The Cannon
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	4th December 1971
place of birth	new York
style	Left delivery
size	1.93 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	68
Victories	60
Knockout victories	53
Defeats	6th
draw	1
No value	1

Shannon Briggs (born December 4, 1971 in Brooklyn , New York , USA ) is an American heavyweight boxer and former WBO world champion .

amateur

Briggs didn't start boxing until he was 19 (despite suffering from severe asthma). In his amateur career, however, he managed a remarkable 35 wins (18 KOs) with only 3 defeats. In 1991 he lost prematurely in the final of the Pan American Games against Félix Savón . In 1992 he was American heavyweight champion, but could not qualify for the Olympic Games in Barcelona in the preliminary rounds .

Professional career

Shannon Briggs turned professional in 1992 and received considerable attention in the USA for his offensive fighting style, his great eloquence and not least because of his striking appearance. After 25 victories against opponents who started up, however, in March 1996 he was knocked out against the unbeaten Darrol Wilson, who was never to reach world class .

After another four wins he was allowed to box on November 22, 1997 against the 48-year-old George Foreman for the so-called linear world championship . He won controversially on points, but showed, as often in his fights, a lack of stamina. He himself explains his lack of fitness with an asthma sufferer .

Nevertheless, he was after the victory as established in the world elite , so that on March 28, 1998 there was a world championship fight against WBC title holder Lennox Lewis . He showed a very committed fight and also won the first two rounds, before losing after a total of three knockdowns in the fifth round due to a technical knockout.

In March 1999 he boxed against Francois Botha in a draw, but in April 2000 he surprisingly lost, again with poor stamina, against the planned opponent Sedreck Fields on points. At this point Fields had already lost nine times in 18 fights. After four more wins, Briggs also lost clearly on points against Jameel McCline in 2002 .

He then got eleven early wins in a row, including 2005 against 44-year-old Ray Mercer . After years of strength training, he now weighed more than 120 kg. His actual boxing ability remained very controversial because of the dubious quality of his opponents.

He was mostly under contract with Cedric Kushner at the time , but signed options for his fights with Don King to get a WBO title fight that he would otherwise have been denied: he was in the IWBR computer rankings before the fight WBO title holder Sjarhej Lyachowitsch only on position 29. On November 4, 2006 Briggs surprisingly won against Lyachowitsch by a knockout in the twelfth round of the WBO title. On points, he was behind (twice with 4: 7, once with 5: 6 rounds) before he first sent his opponent to the ground and finally knocked him out of the boxing ring and knocked out in the last second of the fight.

On June 2, 2007 Briggs rose to his first title defense against the Russian Sultan Ibragimow in the ring and lost by unanimous decision. After the fight, he first announced his retirement from active boxing. 2.5 years later, however, he returned to the ring and defeated Marcus McGee by knockout in the first round. However, the result was canceled a little later because he tested positive during the doping control and was then banned for ninety days.

In 2010 Briggs got three more victories by first round-K. o. He then got the chance to box again for a world title and competed on October 16, 2010 at the O ₂ World in Hamburg against WBC world champion Vitali Klitschko . He clearly lost this duel on points: the judges scored all rounds in Klitschko's favor. After the fight he was taken to the intensive care unit of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf because of the suspected cerebral hemorrhage ; A concussion , two fractures in the face, a muscle tear in the biceps and a burst eardrum were found as a result of Klitschko's many serious hits. Both the British referee Ian-John Lewis and Briggs Ecke were criticized for not ending the fight early despite Briggs' clear inferiority. Briggs said he refused to abort.

In 2014 and 2015 he presented himself to the public at private companies and public events of Wladimir Klitschko , trying to get him to fight.

On May 21, 2016 Briggs competed in London against the Argentine Emilio Ezequiel Zarate. He won the by KO in round 1.

In May 2017 Briggs was convicted of doping with testosterone during a doping control.

List of professional fights

year	date		opponent	Result	Type	Round	place
1992	24th July		John Basil Jackson	victory	KO	1	Catskill , USA
	6th of August		Cedric Sims	victory	KO	1	Virginia , USA
	August 28th		Ed Carlson	victory	KO	1	Lexington, Kentucky , USA
	September 19th		Greg Santos	victory	KO	1	Troy (New York) , USA
	9th October		Juan Quintana	victory	TKO	3	Tiverton (Rhode Island) , USA
	October 29th		Donnie Penelton	victory	KO	1	Saint Paul, Minnesota , USA
	November 13th		Tony Simpson	victory	TKO	1	Revere , USA
	21st November		Rick Honeycutt	victory	TKO	1	Miami , USA
	December 4th		Rocky Bentley	victory	Point win	4th	Bushkill Falls , USA
	9th of December		Robert Pagan Perez	victory	KO	1	Newark, New Jersey , USA
1993	25th March		Ron Gullette	victory	TKO	1	Atlantic City, New Jersey , USA
	May 22		Bruce Johnson	victory	TKO	1	Washington, DC , USA
	10th of July		Danny Blake	victory	Point win	6th	Bushkill Falls , USA
	November 10th		Tim Noble	victory	TKO	3	Atlantic City, New Jersey , USA
	9th of December		Danny Wofford	victory	Point win	6th	New York City , USA
1994	20. February		Mike Faulkner	victory	KO	6th	Biloxi, Mississippi , USA
	March 12th		Jimmy Ellis	victory	TKO	1	Las Vegas , USA
	4th of August		Exum Speight	victory	TKO	1	Connecticut , USA
	26th of August		Mark Young	victory	TKO	8th	West Orange , USA
	October 21		Mike Faulkner	victory	KO	2	Palm Springs, California , USA
1995	13th January		Craig Payne	victory	Points win (unanimous)	8th	West Orange , USA
	March 24th		Marion Wilson	victory	Point win	8th	West Orange , USA
	August 25		Will Hinton	victory	TKO	1	Atlantic City, New Jersey , USA
	September 22		Sherman Griffin	victory	TKO	1	Lewiston, Maine , USA
	15th December		Calvin Jones	victory	TKO	1	New York City , USA
1996	March, 15		Darroll Wilson	defeat	TKO	3	Atlantic City, New Jersey , USA
	25th of September		Tim Ray	victory	KO	1	Newark, New Jersey , USA
1997	21st of February		Eric French	victory	TKO	2	Miami , USA
	April 15th		Melton Bowen	victory	TKO	1	West Orange , USA
	June 24th		Jorge Valdez	victory	TKO	10	Louisiana , USA
	22nd of November		George Foreman	victory	Points win (majority)	12	Atlantic City, New Jersey , USA
1998	28th March		Lennox Lewis	defeat	TKO	5	Atlantic City, New Jersey , USA
	December 8th		Marcus Rhode	victory	TKO	10	New York City , USA
1999	August 7th		Francois Botha	draw	Majority decision	10	Atlantic City, New Jersey , USA
2000	February 24th		Were Williams	victory	TKO	3	New York City , USA
	April 27		Sedreck Fields	defeat	Point defeat (majority)	8th	New York City , USA
	November 2		Eric Curry	victory	KO	1	Worley , USA
2001	7th of April		Russell Chasteen	victory	KO	1	Worley , USA
	October 19th		Jason Waller	victory	TKO	1	Las Vegas , USA
	December 1		Reynaldo Minus	victory	KO	1	New York City , USA
2002	April 27		Jameel McCline	defeat	Point defeat (unanimous)	10	New York City , USA
2003	27th of March		Marvin Hill	victory	TKO	1	Fort Lauderdale , USA
	July 19		John Sargent	victory	TKO	1	Fort Lauderdale , USA
	August 28th		Wade Lewis	victory	TKO	3	North Charleston , USA
2004	6th March		Jeff Pegues	victory	TKO	1	Verona , USA
2005	3 March		Demetrice King	victory	TKO	2	New York City , USA
	June 10th		Abraham Okine	victory	TKO	3	Verona , USA
	26th of August		Ray Mercer	victory	KO	7th	Hollywood (Florida) , USA
	November 26th		Brian Scott	victory	KO	1	Fort Smith, Arkansas , USA
	10th of December		Luciano Zolyone	victory	KO	1	San Juan , Puerto Rico
2006	March 18th		Dicky Ryan	victory	KO	4th	Fort Smith, Arkansas , USA
	May 24th		Chris Koval	victory	task	3	New York City , USA
	November 4th		Syarhej Lyachowitsch	victory	TKO	12	Phoenix , USA
2007	2th of June		Sultan Ibragimov	defeat	Point defeat (unanimous)	12	Atlantic City, New Jersey , USA
2009	June 12		Marcus McGee	Invalid	("No Contest")	1	New York City , USA
2010	April 13th		Rafael Pedro	victory	KO	1	Hollywood (Florida) , USA
	May 21		Dominique Alexander	victory	TKO	1	New York City , USA
	28th of May		Rob Calloway	victory	TKO	1	Norfolk, Virginia , USA
	October, 16th		Vitali Klitschko	defeat	Point defeat (unanimous)	12	Hamburg , Germany
2014	11 April		Maurenzo Smith	victory	KO	1	Tampa (Florida) , USA
	April 19th		Francisco Mireles	victory	KO	1	Carlton, Minnesota , USA
	17th of May		Matthew Greer	victory	TKO	1	Chester , USA
	June 28th		Raphael Zumbano Love	victory	Points win (unanimous)	12	Oklahoma City , USA
	August 23		Cory Phelps	victory	TKO	1	Winston-Salem , USA
	November 1st		Richard Carmack	victory	KO	1	Lula , USA
2015	27th of March		Zoltan Petranyi	victory	KO	1	Panama City , Panama
	5th September		Michael Marrone	victory	KO	2	Hollywood (Florida) , USA
2016	May 21		Emilio Ezequiel Zarate	victory	KO	1	London , UK

Others

At the beginning of his career, Briggs' trademark was dyed blonde dreadlocks . He also worked as an extra in the movies " Bad Boys II " and " Transporter - The Mission " and previously worked occasionally as a photo model for magazines such as " Vogue " and " GQ ".

Web links

• Official website
• Shannon Briggs in the BoxRec database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shannon Briggs drops by anti-doping test report on Boxwelt.com of May 23, 2017, accessed on May 23, 2017
2. ↑ Briggs positive !: Manuel Charr as a substitute in the world championship fight?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report on MSN-Sport dated May 23, 2017, accessed May 23, 2017  

predecessor	Office	successor
Syarhej Lyachowitsch	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) November 4, 2006–2. June 2007	Sultan Ibragimov