BOXING TRIVIA: What trainer am I?

Can't be McGirt. You didn't mention getting a drink of water.

 

What trainer am I?

Looky here... looky here... look here Oscar... thiswhatIwanchutado.... look here... breathe... looky here.... * Bell Rings

 

I think some of those early "junior light heavyweight" belts were only recognized in a few states and ceased to exist after a fight or two.

I'm guessing he's looking for Murray Sutherland (?), a guy who lost to Tommy Hearns at one point and isn't really known for much else besides capturing the IBF's inaugural SMW belt.

 

What was the lineage of that title? Where did it go after Fullmer didn't defend?

 

Tommy Hearns baby

 

Was my answer not what you're looking for? If not, then I'll offer one more. I believe I read that one of those early belts was handed out by the State of Ohio and won by Buster Douglas's dad. Don't remember his name, but I'll take him as well, if my first answer was wrong.

 

Bingo -- Sutherland fought everybody! However, he was really to small for 175 and to big for 160. The SMW division was just right for him, but he was already on the slide.

 

Didn't SRL win that in his fight against Donny Lalonde?

 

Murray Sutherland

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=2629&cat=boxer

 

There was interest in a division between middleweight (160 pounds) and light heavyweight (175 pounds) in the late 1960s, the mid-1970s, and the early 1980s. A few states briefly recognized a "Junior Light Heavyweight" division at 167 pounds and the fringe World Athletic Association (WAA) later inaugurated a "Super Middleweight" division at 168. On April 3, 1967, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Don Fullmer, a brother of former world middleweight champion Gene Fullmer won the first version by stopping previously unbeaten Joe Hopkins in six rounds. He never defended it. On November 25, 1974, in Columbus, Ohio, Billy Douglas, the father of future world heavyweight champion James "Buster" Douglas halted Danny Brewer in two rounds to win the Ohio Commission's version of the world junior light heavyweight title. He too never made a defense of the title. Then, on April 3, 1982, in Denver, Colorado, Jerry "Wimpy" Halstead stopped Ron Brown in six rounds to win the WAA's inaugural super middleweight title bout. Halstead made one defense, knocking out Darren Encline in one round on May 29. 1982 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Following that fight, Halstead moved up to the light heavyweight class and eventually campaigned as a heavyweight. It should be noted that the media and most commissions did not recognize Fullmer's, Douglas', or Halstead's titles nor did they recognize the division during this period.[1]

The current super middleweight division traces its beginning to 1984, when Murray Sutherland defeated Ernie Singletary for the International Boxing Federation version of the title. The World Boxing Association created its version of the super middleweight title when Chong Pal Park defeated Jesus Gallardo in 1987 (Park had been IBF champion before relinquishing the title to fight for the WBA version). The World Boxing Council crowned its first champion in 1988 when Sugar Ray Leonard defeated Donny Lalonde in a fight that was also for its version of the light heavyweight title.

http://www.answers.com/topic/super-middleweight-1

 

I picked without scrolling down...Buddy McGirt.

 

The "Predator"? :rofl

 

Good job! That is the info I was looking for.

 

floyd joy mayweather sr, former fighter now poetic writer.