波士顿 (三月 2, 2021) – New Haven (CT) 超次中量级拳击手 吉米“安静的风暴”威廉姆斯 will finally get what he calls “his world title fight” tonight against former world champion 尤里·福尔曼 in an 8-round bout for the vacant American Boxing Federation USA super welterweight championship, at the Kentucky Center for African Americans in Louisville, 肯塔基州.
领班 (35-3, 10 科斯), 的战斗布鲁克林, 夺取世界拳击协会 (WBA) 超次中量级世界冠军 2009, 当他在12回合比赛中以一致判定战胜卫冕冠军时 丹尼尔·桑托斯 (32-3-1).
“We sparred back when I was a kid when I trained at the Joe Grier Boxing Academy in Patterson, 新泽西州,” Williams explained. “Joe was the one who gave me my nickname, ‘Quiet Storm.’ Yuri is a true world champion. I basically have come from nowhere to share the ring with a world champion. What we’re doing is what boxing is all about. It’s not about age; 他 40 and I’m 34. Age doesn’t mean anything. I’m not a top dog, which is probably why they offered me the fight, but I’m a real fighter who will be in with a world champ. This is my world title fight! 赢, 输, 或绘制, I’ll be fighting a world champion. I’m not scared of anybody. It’s not about money, it’s who I am, and I always step up to the challenge. This is going to be a great fight.”
威廉姆斯 (16-5-2, 5 科斯) is proud to be one of the rare football players who has succeeded in boxing. He was a standout cornerback at Southern Connecticut State University and invited to several NFL tryout camps. He came close to making the cut with the then-Oakland Raiders.
“I’ve always been a boxer at heart,”威廉姆斯说, “so football was easy for me. It was great getting calls from NFL scouts. I walked away from football for boxing. I’m a former Division 2 college football player fighting a world champion. I knew when it was time to leave football, but I’m not ready to leave boxing yet. I don’t need to box. I’m educated, work in the community, and I’m a father. I’m blessed to be boxing and I’ll know when it’s time to hang up my gloves.”
Williams didn’t box until after his mother, Belinda, was murdered in 2008 and her case remains unsolved. He lost his father to cancer.
“This fight for Jimmy is by far the biggest of his career,” Williams manager瑞安·罗奇（Ryan Roach） (战斗机储物柜) remarked. “It’s a must win to get him back on track. He knows what he has to do. He made a move to Veloz Boxing in Rhode Island and he’s a different fighter from what he was in his last two fights. Just being around ‘Boo Boo’ (世界冠军Demetrious Andrade) and those guys there has Jimmy where he needs to be for this fight.”
Williams has been promoted by吉米·伯奇菲尔德的经典娱乐和体育 (CES) since he turned pro in 2013.
“We have a close relationship,” Burchfield commented. “I turned him pro, got him on national television a few times, and even attended his wedding. I’m very proud of him. He’s been tremendously loyal to CES as we have to him. This is a great opportunity. He didn’t hesitate a minute to take this fight. He has a new trainer, Brian Johnson, and Jimmy has been driving bad and forth from New Haven to Providence to train. I think he’s in the top shape of his life, because he knows the importance of this fight. He deserves to have this opportunity.
Something special about his fight tonight against Foreman for Williams, an African American, is fighting at this venue (Kentucky Center for African Americans) in the hometown of his hero,穆罕默德·阿里.
“I’m paying homage to all people who’ve lived my dream,” Williams remarked. “It is what I represent. We’ve lost a lot of people in the last year. Fighting in Louisville is big for me because it’s the home of ‘The Greatest,’ Muhammad Ali. I look at Ali more for his character and what he stood for than his boxing. He stood for something and lost the prime of his career because of it. I try to be like him in terms of who I am. He gave me the confidence be who I want to be in life. I’ve read every book about him. I refuse to give up like Ali. I’m a throwback fighter.”
Fighter Locker’s growing stable of gifted boxers includes California super flyweightRocco “So Cal Kid” Santomauro (20-1, 6 科斯), 特洛伊, NY ABF 美国西部超轻量级雷杰“毁灭者”贝穆德斯(12-0, 9 科斯), 超中量级肖恩·麦卡曼（Shawn McCalman）(6-0, 4 科斯), 中美. 陆军超轻量级丹尼尔·贝利, JR. (2-0, 1 KO), 轻量级莱昂内尔·德洛斯桑托斯 (2-0, 2 科斯), 一 2-时间 多米尼加共和国奥海, 职业首秀波士顿羽量级特洛伊·安德森（Troy Anderson）, JR., 支持首次亮相的多米尼加共和国次中量级胡安·索拉诺, 和盐湖城, 犹他兄弟, 超轻量级伊格纳西奥·凯雷兹 (7-0-1, 4 科斯) 轻巧加布里埃尔·凯雷兹 (3-0, 2 科斯).
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