Mike Morgan is a retired professional middleweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...

 boxer

Boxing

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 from Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

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Professional career

Morgan made his professional boxing debut on October 10 1970 with a four-round points win against 6-2 Chuck Hernandez. Morgan remained unbeaten through five matches, losing for the first time to Frank Foramero in May 1971. Later Morgan would box his way to a draw against 12-5-3 Frank Jiminez, then a win against Jiminez, then 13-7-5. Morgan had run his record to 12-1-2 when he was given the opportunity to fight Rudy Rodriguez for the vacant Minnesota state middleweight championship in August 1973. Morgan would defeat Rodriguez by split decision to gain the title, and then rematched Rodriguez two months later, again winning by split decision. In May of 1974 Morgan put his 14-1 record on the line against Rodriguez's younger brother, Rafael Rodriguez, this time fighting for the Minnesota light middleweight

Light middleweight

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 title. This fight would headline a fight card that included future stars Scott LeDoux

Scott LeDoux

Alan Scott LeDoux, "The Fighting Frenchman," was a politician, professional heavyweight boxer, professional wrestler and referee.-Boxing:...

, Doug Demmings

Doug Demmings

Doug Demmings was a middleweight professional boxer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.-Professional boxing career:Demmings' career began in inauspicious fashion with two losses in his first four fights, before he began an unbeaten streak than ran to 19 bouts over three years...

, and Gary Holmgren

Gary Holmgren

Gary Holmgren, alias The Hammer, is a retired light middleweight professional boxer from Hastings, Minnesota.-Professional career:Holmgren made his professional debut on May 15, 1974 with a first-round knockout win against Milton Buckley in St Paul, Minnesota...

 on the undercard, but it would end badly for Morgan when Rodriguez knocked him out in the first round. In his next bout Morgan faced unbeaten prospect Mike Rossman

Mike Rossman

Mike Rossman is an American former world champion boxer. He is of Jewish/Italian origin, which led to his monikers "The Kosher Butcher" and "The Jewish Bomber." He finished his professional boxing career in 1983 with a record of 44–7–3, with 27 knockouts.-Life and career:Rossman was born in...

 at Madison Square Garden

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 in New York City

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, losing by unanimous decision in eight rounds. Thereafter Morgan would lose more often than he won, finally retiring from boxing after putting together a three-fight winning streak in 1978. At the time of his retirement Morgan had compiled a professional record of 20-11 with 5 wins by knockout

Knockout

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