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Ross Puritty is a retired heavyweight professional boxer. A high-level journeyman and occasional heavyweight contender, Puritty is best remembered for his shocking upset of Wladimir Klitschko

Wladimir Klitschko

Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...

in 1998 that won him the WBC

World Boxing Council

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international Heavyweight title.

Professional Boxing career

Purrity made his professional debut on May 29, 1989, with a first-round knockout

Knockout

A knockout is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, Karate and others sports involving striking...

of Sergio Araujo

Sergio Araujo

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. He then lost his second professional fight to Cleveland Woods. Through his first six professional fights Puritty had compiled a mediocre record of 3-3, and after thirteen professional fights he was doing even worse, falling to 6-7. By this time Puritty was considered nothing more than a useful journeyman who could be used as a trial horse for other young heavyweights. But Puritty was learning the art and science of boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

, and with time and experience his results began to improve.

A July 1994 match against Tommy Morrison

Tommy Morrison

Tommy David Morrison is an American heavyweight boxer and a former World Boxing Organization champion. He lost only three out of a total of 52 professional fights. Morrison's nickname, "The Duke," is based on disputed claims that he is a grandnephew of Hollywood star John Wayne...

, 41-2 at the time, was a turning point in Puritty's career, as he was outlanded and tired out near the end of the fight, but the bout was scored a draw after ten rounds on the strength of Puritty's two knockdowns of Morrison. Puritty then went on a tear, winning his next ten consecutive bouts, all by knockout. Puritty had made his name and was now considered a top-tier opponent, earning matches against Hasim Rahman

Hasim Rahman

Hasim Sharif Rahman is an American professional boxer. Rahman is the former Lineal, WBC, IBO, & IBF heavyweight champion...

and Michael Grant

Michael Grant (boxer)

Michael Anthony Grant is a professional heavyweight boxer. He is 6' 7" tall, with an 86' reach. A natural born athlete before boxing he blossomed into a three-sport star at Chicago's Harper High School...

(both of whom beat him), and against Jorge Luis Gonzalez

Jorge Luis Gonzalez

Jorge Luis González is a former heavyweight boxing contender and prospect born in Havana, Cuba. He won the gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1987 Pan American Games and the former WBO Latino Heavyweight Champion.-Amateur:González compiled an Amateur Record of 220-13...

and Joe Hipp

Joe Hipp

Joe "The Boss" Hipp is a retired professional Native American Heavyweight boxer. Hipp, a member of Blackfoot Tribe became the first Native American to challenge for the world heavyweight championship of boxing on August 19, 1995 when he fought WBA champion Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand Las Vegas...

, both of whom Puritty beat. Following the win against Hipp, Puritty was matched against world title contenders Corrie Sanders

Corrie Sanders

Cornelius "Corrie" Johannes Sanders is a South African former professional boxer. In 2003 he became the WBO heavyweight champion by defeating Wladimir Klitschko via a second-round knock out that is considered one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight boxing history and won Ring Magazine upset of...

, Larry Donald

Larry Donald

Larry Ali Donald is a professional heavyweight boxer, who competed for the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.-Professional career:...

, and Chris Byrd

Chris Byrd

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, losing all three fights. Just when it appeared that his time as a contender was ending, Puritty upset the undefeated prospect Mark Hulstrom and the also undefeated future world champion Wladimir Klitschko

Wladimir Klitschko

Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...

in just 29 days in late 1998 on his way to a four fight win streak (he won the WBC

World Boxing Council

international Heavyweight title from Klitschko).

Since a draw with Frankie Swindell in January 2000, Puritty has compiled a pedestrian record of just 4-7-2, and his time appears to have passed. But overall Puritty has salvaged a respectable career as a high-level journeyman and sometime contender for the heavyweight crown, amassing a career record of 31 wins and 20 losses with 27 wins coming by knockout.

Puritty has been generally acknowledged as a fighter with an "iron chin"

Chin (boxing)

In combat sports such as boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts, a fighter's chin is a figurative term that refers to a his/her ability to tolerate physical trauma to the head without being knocked unconscious...

due to his tremendous ability to absorb punishment. Throughout his whole professional career of 54 fights he has never been knocked out, and he was stopped only once, by Vitali Klitschko

Vitali Klitschko

Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Klychko is a Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxer and the current WBC heavyweight champion. He is a leader of the political party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe. He previously...

in 2001.

Ross Puritty now resides in Wichita, Kansas living with his wife Twila and their three children, Chandler, Tonique, and Ross jr. There he has taken under his wing amateur boxers such as national contender Jeffery Page from Andover, Kansas and numerous other amateurs in a team known as Wichita Hard Hitters. Also for a short period coached the Golden Glove champion Charles Ellis through a short but explosive professional career and he is currently an assistant football coach for Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School

Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School

Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School, sometimes called Kapaun, is a private, four year, co-educational, secondary school operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wichita. The mission of the school is to form the total person in the image of Jesus Christ...

in Wichita KS.

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David Cadieux

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Tommy Connelly
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John Dixon
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Vitali Klitschko

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Ronnie Smith
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Elieser Castillo
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Frankie Swindell
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Louis Monaco

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|22/04/1999
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Lorenzo Boyd
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|23/03/1999
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Wladimir Klitschko

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|TKO
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|05/12/1998
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Mark Hulstrom
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|06/11/1998
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Chris Byrd

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Larry Donald

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|21/04/1998
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Corrie Sanders

|UD
|12
|15/11/1997
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Joe Hipp

|KO
|10
|15/06/1997
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Calvin Jones
|TKO
|5
|17/04/1997
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Jorge Luis Gonzalez

|TKO
|7
|05/12/1996
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Lionel Jackson
|KO
|1
|14/09/1996
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Michael Seals
|TKO
|2
|03/09/1996
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Michael Grant

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|21/07/1996
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Hasim Rahman

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|UD
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|26/03/1996
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Ron Brooks
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|1
|02/03/1996
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Stan Jones
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|3
|23/09/1995
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Andre Smiley
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|1
|26/08/1995
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|Win
|15-8-1
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|22/08/1995
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Andre Smiley
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|1
|18/08/1995
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Tom Williams
|TKO
|1
|25/07/1995
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|Win
|12-8-1
|align=left|Lamar Johnson
|TKO
|3
|18/07/1995
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Tyrone Dixon
|KO
|1
|22/06/1995
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Max Key
|TKO
|2
|26/04/1995
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Ron Gullette
|TKO
|4
|17/02/1995
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Tommy Morrison

|SD
|10
|28/07/1994
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Kirk Johnson
|UD
|6
|05/05/1994
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Derrick Roddy
|UD
|6
|27/03/1994
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Jason Williams
|PTS
|4
|12/03/1994
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Brian Nielsen
|PTS
|4
|05/03/1994
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Will Hinton
|PTS
|6
|05/08/1993
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Juan Ramon Perez
|KO
|4
|03/04/1992
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Mike Bardwell
|KO
|4
|25/03/1992
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King Ipitan
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|25/02/1992
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|PTS
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|24/02/1992
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Jose Avila
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|03/02/1991
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John Sargent

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|UD
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|06/01/1991
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Alexander Miroshnichenko
|TKO
|6
|29/10/1990
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|Win
|3–1
|align=left|Troy Tutwiler
|TKO
|3
|10/06/1990
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|Win
|2–1
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|TKO
|1
|15/01/1990
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Cleveland Woods
|TKO
|1
|27/06/1989
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|Win
|1–0
|align=left|Sergio Araujo
|KO
|1
|29/05/1989
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