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Ray Mercer. Raymond Anthony Mercer (born April 4, 1961) is an American former professional boxer, kickboxer, and mixed martial artist who competed from 1989 to 2009. Best known for his boxing career, Mercer won a heavyweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur, and later held the WBO heavyweight title in 1991 as a professional ...
Box-pro 44 bouts. Halstead did not answer the bell for round 3. Mercer relinquised the WBO title shortly after this fight. Damiani went down after a Mercer left uppercut broke his nose, and he was counted out by the referee. Jones down in 1st, 7th and 8th.
Mercer had been promised a title fight against champion Riddick Bowe if he beat Ferguson. On June 29, 1993, Mercer was charged with offering Ferguson a $100,000 bribe to take a dive. According to the indictment, the bribe proposal wasn't made before the fight, but during the fight, when Mercer apparently realized he could not beat Ferguson.
In the early 1990s, Ray Mercer was regarded as one of the best heavyweights in the world. Owner of one of the most durable chins in the division, as well as fight ending power, he was capable of giving the very best a tough outing. Mercer was born in Jacksonville, Florida on April 4, 1961. His father was in the military and served in Vietnam.
Raymond Anthony Mercer is an American former professional boxer, kickboxer, and mixed martial artist who competed from 1989 to 2009. Best known for his boxing career, Mercer won a heavyweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur, and later held the WBO heavyweight title in 1991 as a professional, making one successful title defense against Tommy Morrison before vacating his ...
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Thirty years ago, on Oct. 18, 1991, heavyweights “Merciless” Ray Mercer and Tommy “The Duke” Morrison squared off in an HBO-televised showdown at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall which presumably would determine if the winner, and maybe even both, had earned the right to enter the pantheon of the division’s true, or at least perceived, elite. […]
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