Troy Lowry is a 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...

 professional boxer

Boxing

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. Lowry is a native of St Paul

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...

, 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

Lowry began his career with a decision over Blaine Biers in February 1992 and ran off twelve consecutive wins before losing a fight to Terry Ford in May 1994. Lowry continued to fight and to win, finally getting a few fights against notable competition including Hector Camacho

Héctor Camacho

Héctor Camacho , nicknamed "Macho Camacho", is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. His son, Héctor Camacho Jr., is also a boxer.- Early life and amateur career :...

, Steve Roberts

Steve Roberts

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, Matt Vanda

Matt Vanda

Matt Vanda, nicknamed the Predator, is a middleweight boxer from east Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.-Professional career:Vanda's first fight as a professional boxer was on March 30, 1996 in the welterweight division against Ed Fuller in Kearney, Nebraska...

, Yuri Foreman

Yuri Foreman

Yuri Foreman is a Belarusian-born Israeli-American professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association super welterweight champion...

, and Anthony Bonsante

Anthony Bonsante

Anthony "The Bullet" Bonsante is a professional boxer and competitor on reality TV show The Contender. He also works overnight as a supervisor at a distribution center.-Personal life:...

. As of January 2008 Lowry has a professional record of 27 wins (16 by 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...

) and 7 losses. His next fight is expected to be against Andy Kolle

Andy Kolle

Andy Kolle alias Kaos is a middleweight professional boxer from Minnesota.-Professional career:Kolle made his professional debut with a 3rd round knockout win against Nick Whiting on March 6, 2004. As of November 2010 Kolle’s professional record was 23-2 with 17 wins by knockout...

on February 23.