Jimmy Williams’ revitalized after defeating Yuri Foreman for UBO title
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Jimmy Williams defeats Yuri Foreman for UBO International title
Jimmy Williams defeats Yuri Foreman
Buckhead Fight Club in Atlanta, Georgia, USA 19/6/21
Jimmy Williams, from New Haven, Connecticut, is the new Universal Boxing Organization™ (UBO) International Super Welterweight champion.
On Saturday night, June 19, at the Buckhead Fight Club in Atlanta, Georgia, he scored the most significant victory of his career when he defeated former WBA World Champion Yuri Foreman to lift the vacant title.
In a close and hard-fought battle, Williams secured victory with two knock-downs in the sixth round, earning a majority decision by scores of 77-73, 77-73 and 75-75.
The new champion improved his professional record to 18-5-2 (6), and also captured the vacant American Boxing Federation (ABF) USA title in the process.
For Foreman, now 35-4 (10), this was his second bout since returning to the ring after a three-year lay-off, and he was hoping that victory would put him a step closer to winning a second world title. Instead it could be the end of a fine pro career spanning almost twenty years.
The Williams vs. Foreman fight headlined a show billed “Underground Showdown”, and was streamed live world-wide on Pay-Per-View.
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Yuri Foreman & Jimmy Williams weigh-in ahead of tonight
Yuri Foreman vs. Jimmy Williams Weights
Atlanta, Georgia, USA 19/6/21
Vacant UBO International Super Welterweight Title
Yuri Foreman: 153.6 LBS / 69.65 KG
Jimmy Williams: 153.6 LBS / 69.65
Promoter: Terri Moss @tmosstheboss
@bucketheadfightclub
Also on the fight card:
Christian Steele vs. Kevin Cooper
Floyd Shoffield vs. Darryl Hayes
Naffear Charles vs. Kaylyn Alfred
Abel Aparicio vs. Juan Centeno
Melody Popravak vs. Nina Gallegos
Eric Moon vs. TBD
Gordie Russ vs. Rayshawn Cooper
Mikhail Montgomery vs. Adrian Bermudez
D’Angelo Fuentes vs. TBD
Hendri Cedeno Martinez vs. TBD
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The journey continues: Yuri Foreman ready for UBO title fight
Yuri Foreman vs. Jimmy Williams
Buckhead Fight Club in Atlanta, USA 19/6/21
Foreman was born in former Soviet Union country Belarus, and started boxing at seven years old. At nine he immigrated to Israel with his family, and won the national amateur championships of his new country three times.
In 1999, still only a teenager, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he continued to pursue his ambitions of turning professional while working in the garment district in Manhattan.
Training at the legendary Gleason´s Gym, he won the 2000 Golden Gloves, and eventually accomplished his goal of becoming a professional when he made his paid debut in January of 2002 after a 75-5 amateur career.
Over the next four years he compiled an unblemished 19-0 record, fighting on various promoters shows and defeating decent opposition.
Foreman was then signed up by one of the most influential promotional companies in the world, Top Rank, which is when things really took off for him.
He established himself as a top-contender with wins over Anthony Thompson (23-1), Andrey Tsurkan (25-2), Saul Roman (28-4) and James Moore (16-1), and in November of 2009 he reached the absolute top when he scored a wide decision over Daniel Santos (32-3-1) to become world champion.
Its been stop-start for the last ten years, but, an ordained Rabbi since 2014, Foreman is a man of faith, and he believes that if he defeats Williams and wins the UBO title, he is back on track to becoming world champion again.
The journey continues!
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Former World Champ Yuri Foreman Fighting For UBO Title June 19
Yuri Foreman vs. Jimmy Williams
Buckhead Fightclub, Atlanta 19/6/21
Former WBA World Champion Yuri Foreman (35-3, 10 KOs) is set to fight for the vacant Universal Boxing Organization™ (UBO) International Super Welterweight title on June 19 in Atlanta.
At the Buckhead Fightclub, Foreman will take on Jimmy “Quiet Storm” Williams (17-5-2, 6 KOs) in the main event of a show labelled “Underground Showdown”.
A pro since 2002, Foreman (40) won the WBA World Super Welterweight title by defeating Daniel Santos in one of the co-featured bouts of the Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto card in Las Vegas in November of 2009.
He lost the title to Cotto, a Puerto Rican icon, the following year, when an injured right knee played a major part in him getting stopped in nine rounds, after a brave effort in front of over twenty thousand fans at Yankee Stadium in New York.
In 2017 Foreman, an Israeli national born in Belarus and based in Brooklyn, New York since 1999, came up short against WBA and IBO World Champion Erislandy Lara, and it appeared that his chance to regain former glory had come and gone.
But, feeling rejuvenated, he started his comeback in December of last year with a decision victory over journeyman Jeremy Ramos in Louisville, and he continues to pave the way towards becoming a two-time world champion should he defeat Williams on June 19 and capture the UBO International title.
For Williams (34), a former WBC regional titlist, this is a big opportunity to not only win another belt, but also to make a name for himself by defeating the accomplished Foreman. He too is coming off a victory, so enters the fight full of confidence that he can derail the comeback train.
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Jimmy Williams to Face Former Champ Yuri Foreman This Saturday
New Haven (CT) super welterweight boxer Jimmy “Quiet Storm” Williams will finally get what he calls “his world title fight” this Saturday night against former world champion Yuri Foreman in an 8-round bout for the vacant American Boxing Federation USA super welterweight championship, at the Kentucky Center for African Americans in Louisville, Kentucky.
Foreman (35-3, 10 KOs), fighting out of Brooklyn, captured the World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight World title in 2009, when he won a unanimous 12-round decision versus defending champion Daniel Santos (32-3-1).
“We sparred back when I was a kid when I trained at the Joe Grier Boxing Academy in Patterson, New Jersey,” 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; he’s 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! Win, lose, or draw, 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.”
Williams (16-5-2, 5 KOs) 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 try-out camps. He came close to making the cut with the then-Oakland Raiders.
“I’ve always been a boxer at heart,” Williams said, “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 Ryan Roach (Fighter Locker) 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’ (world champion Demetrious Andrade) and those guys there has Jimmy where he needs to be for this fight.”
Williams has been promoted by Jimmy Burchfield‘s Classic Entertainment and Sports (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 this Saturday night against Foreman for Williams, an African American, is fighting at this venue (Kentucky Center for African Americans) in the hometown of his hero, Muhammad Ali.
“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 flyweight Rocco “So Cal Kid” Santomauro (20-1, 6 KOs), Troy, NY ABF American West super lightweight Ray Jay “The Destroyer” Bermudez (12-0, 9 KOs), super middleweight “The Amazing” Shawn McCalman (6-0, 4 KOs), U.S. Army super bantamweight Daniel Bailey, Jr. (2-0, 1 KO), lightweight Leonel de los Santos (2-0, 2 KOs), a2-time Dominican Republic Olympian, pro-debuting Boston featherweight Troy Anderson, Jr., pro-debuting Dominican Republic welterweight Juan Solano, and Salt Lake City, Utah brothers, super lightweight Ignacio Chairez (7-0-1, 4 KOs) and lightweight Gabriel Chairez (3-0, 2 KOs).
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