Jennings fought twice more in 2011, beating Alexis Mejias and Kevin Franklin.
"The ref took it away from him. Jennings’ first fight of 2012 was a ten-round bout against Maurice Byarm on January 21 at the Jennings fought once in 2013, on June 14, stopping Andrey Fedosov in six rounds after Fedosov did not come out for the seventh.
NEW YORK -- Heavyweight contender Bryant Jennings pulled out a split decision against Mike Perez on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden to earn a world title shot.Jennings and Perez put on a snoozer of a fight on the undercard of the "It doesn't matter as long as I get the win," Jennings said.With the victory, he became the mandatory challenger for the winner of the bout between world titleholder Bermane Stiverne and current mandatory challenger Deontay Wilder, who are supposed to meet this fall. Flores on June 27.• Dusty Hernandez-Harrison (23-0, 12 KOs), a 20-year-old welterweight prospect from Washington, D.C., was much faster, much more elusive and much busier than Wilfredo Acuna (14-15, 11 KOs), 32, of Nicaragua, whom he easily outboxed to win a shutout eight-round decision in a monotonous fight and a complete mismatch.All three judges scored the 80-72 for Hernandez-Harrison, who probably has had tougher sparring sessions than the fight against Acuna, who dropped to 1-8 in his last nine fights and 2-11 in his last 13, including a seventh-round knockout loss to newly crowned junior welterweight titlist Chris Algieri last September.Hernandez-Harrison landed a lot of right hands, including a few of them in the fourth round that wobbled Acuna and knocked him back. On July 23 he rematched Theron Johnson, again beating him by unanimous decision.
There would be some big shots and heavy leather thrown in that fight.”Boxing referees and judges involved at the Rio Olympics will not be allowed to officiate at Tokyo 2020.On Wednesday, an International Olympic Committee task force confirmed all 36 officials who worked in Brazil will not feature at next year’s tournament.The officials were all suspended in the wake of the 2016 games following allegations that Olympic fights were fixed.Michael Conlan’s controversial loss to Russian Vladimir Nikitin in the quarter-finals, which denied the Northern Ireland featherweight the chance of a second Olympic medal, was one fight steeped in controversy.The Brit insists he is in a great place and determined to win back his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles from Ruiz, when they meet for the second time on December 7 in Saudi Arabia.“We haven’t done anything differently mentally,” he declared.“I am a champion.
"Jennings is an excellent boxer. "I wanted him to stand in there and fight. Find out more about cookies "Jennings (24-2, 14 KOs), 34, of Philadelphia, will look to extend his winning streak to six since signing with Top Rank in mid-2017, following a 20-month layoff caused in part by issues with his previous promoter. Afolabi promoter K2 Promotions won the purse bid for the fight in April, but in early July Kolodziej pulled out of the bout, leaving Afolabi to face late replacement Caputo Smith in a much lower-profile fight.It was a total mismatch. Tyson Fury’s next fight will not be against Deontay Wilder ... Duco’s David Higgins recently came out and declared their willingness to face Fury next. ""It's kind of unheard of to take a point away in the 12th round and have that decide the fight," said K2 Promotions managing director Tom Loeffler, Perez's promoter.Jennings (19-0, 10 KOs) and Perez (20-0-1, 12 KOs), 28, a Cuban defector living in Ireland, were initially scheduled to fight May 24 in Corpus Christi, Texas, but Perez suffered a left shoulder injury in a sparring session and the bout was called off with two weeks to go.They fought at a solid pace early, but Perez, a southpaw, seemed to be getting the better of the exchanges as he landed solid right jab-straight left combinations while Jennings was ineffective trying to fight him on the outside.There was sporadic action, such as in the third round when Jennings stunned Perez with a right and Perez responded by knocking him backward.Jennings' biggest moment in the first half of the fight came just before the fifth round ended, when he caught Perez with a solid right uppercut that excited the pro-Jennings crowd.But the fight grew more ragged as it went on and the pace slowed, especially Perez's. ET).The deal for Jennings-Rivas is done but Rivas (24-0, 17 KOs) is scheduled to fight Brazil's Fabio Maldonado (26-0, 25 KOs) on Dec. 1 in Quebec City on the undercard of light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson's defense against Oleksandr Gvozdyk.
"This will be the year where I take my career to the next level. He beat Theron Johnson by unanimous decision.