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Tye "Big Sky" Fields is an American

United States

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Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...

boxer

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...

Career

Tye Fields grew up in Beaverton, Oregon

Beaverton, Oregon

Beaverton is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States, seven miles west of Portland in the Tualatin River Valley.As of the 2010 census, the population is 90,267. This makes it the second-largest city in the county and Oregon's sixth-largest city...

. Fields played college basketball and was a starter at forward for San Diego State University

San Diego State University

San Diego State University , founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area , and is part of the California State University system...

. Fields never was an amateur. Standing at 6 feet and 8 inches and weighing around 275lbs (125kg), the southpaw Fields is considered large even for the heavyweight division.

In his professional career he has beaten opponents such as Saul Montana

Saul Montana

Saul Montana is a Mexican boxer in the Heavyweight division. Montana is the former Mexican National Champion at Light Heavyweight, IBA, NABA, WBC Mundo Hispano, WBC Continental Americas Champion at Cruiserweight, NBA, and Mexican National Champion at Heavyweight.-Pro career:Montana turned pro in...

, Bruce Seldon

Bruce Seldon

Bruce Samuel Seldon is a retired American boxer and former world champion, having won the World Boxing Association heavyweight title in 1995.-Amateur career:...

, Sedreck Fields

Sedreck Fields

Sedreck Sylvester Fields, born September 11, 1972, in Augusta, GA, is a heavyweight boxer. Nicknamed "Big Buck", Fields is a journeyman fighter who fought several significant fighters of his era.Fields turned pro in 1997 and won 22 fights while losing 37...

, Maurice Harris

Maurice Harris

Wilbur Maurice Harris , nicknamed "Sugar Moe", is the former United States Boxing Association heavyweight champion.-Pro career:...

, Domonic Jenkins, Kendrick Releford and Roderick Willis. He started his career with a streak of 17 consecutive KO victories (16 of them coming in the first round) before he suffered his first loss to Jeff Ford via a 1st round KO. He would later avenge this defeat by knocking out Ford in a rematch, also in the 1st round. In total Fields has 23 first round knockouts among his 41 professional victories. He has won 4 regional titles.

On June 28, 2008, Fields faced off against Monte Barrett

Monte Barrett

Monte Barrett is an American professional heavyweight boxer. He was regarded by many as a tough gatekeeper and was a former WBC Continental Americas Heavyweight Champion and current WBO Asia Pacific Heavyweight and WBO Oriental Heavyweight champion...

on the Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao

Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...

- David Diaz undercard at the Mandalay Bay

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in Las Vegas. Fields suffered the second defeat of his career losing via knockout after just 57 seconds of the first round when Barrett (34-6, 20 KOs) delivered a series of accurate right hands, knocking Fields down and leaving him unable to beat the referee's count..

Following the defeat to Barrett Fields rebounded with 4 straight KO victories over lowly regarded opposition before taking another step up and challenging former heavyweight title challenger 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...

. The fight took place on March 11th 2011 at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino

Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino

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in Las Vegas. As with his previous step up in opposition Fields came up short when he was knocked out with a single punch from Grant in the third round.

Fields took part in the Prizefighter

Prizefighter series

The Prizefighter series is a knock out boxing tournament created by boxing promoter Barry Hearn and aired on Sky Sports. The format has an initial eight fighters, who compete in four quarter-finals of 3 x 3 minute rounds followed by two semi-finals and one final all on the same night...

'International heavyweights' tournament held at Alexandra Palace

Alexandra Palace

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in London

London

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on 7th May 2011. After winning his opening 2 bouts against Michael Sprott

Michael Sprott

Michael Sprott is a professional heavyweight boxer from Reading, Berkshire, England. Sprott briefly held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles, and was a European heavyweight title contender...

and Konstantin Airich

Konstantin Airich

Konstantin Airich is a Kazakh-born German heavyweight boxer born in Astana, Kazakhstan and based in Hamburg, Germany. He is the current interim German BDB heavyweight title holder....

he matched up against the undefeated former Cuban amateur star Mike Perez

Ismaikel Pérez

Ismaikel "Mike" Pérez Pérez is a Cuban professional boxer best known to win the World Junior Amateur Championships at light heavyweight in Jeju in 2004. Perez also, won the International Prizefighter tournament...

. Perez won the tournament and the £32,00 prize money when he knocked Fields out in the first round.

Professional boxing record

Raphael Butler

Raphael Butler is heavyweight professional boxer from the United States. Butler now resides in Rochester, Minnesota.-Amateur:...

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David Whittom
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Mike Perez

Ismaikel Pérez

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Konstantin Airich

Konstantin Airich is a Kazakh-born German heavyweight boxer born in Astana, Kazakhstan and based in Hamburg, Germany. He is the current interim German BDB heavyweight title holder....

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Michael Sprott

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Michael Grant

Michael Grant (boxer)

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Raymond Olubowale
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Ken Frank
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Galen Brown
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Nicolai Firtha
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Monte Barrett

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Roderick Willis
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Chris Koval
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Domonic Jenkins
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Kendrick Releford
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Maurice Harris

Wilbur Maurice Harris , nicknamed "Sugar Moe", is the former United States Boxing Association heavyweight champion.-Pro career:...

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Ed Mahone
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Bruce Seldon

Bruce Samuel Seldon is a retired American boxer and former world champion, having won the World Boxing Association heavyweight title in 1995.-Amateur career:...

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Saul Montana

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Sedreck Fields

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Ray Lunsford
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Marcelo Aravena
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Julius Long

Julius Long is an American professional boxer and kickboxer, who turned professional in 2001. He stands at 7' 1" and weighs 250+ lbs.- Career :...

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Sherman Williams

Sherman Williams (boxer)

Sherman Alexander Williams is a Bahamian professional heavyweight boxer. For a while he was predicted to capture the heavyweight championship of the world..-Professional career:...

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Carlos Barcelete
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Brian Sargent
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Marvin Hill
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Francis Royal
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Jose Flores
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Joe Lenhart
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Jeff Ford
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Ed White
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George Chamberlain
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Undra Hawkins
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Jason Nicholson
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Jeff Ford
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Andy Sample
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Nick Flores
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Greg Suttington
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Dan Kosmicki
|TKO
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George Chamberlain
|TKO
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Curtis McDorman
|KO
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Kevin Rosier
|TKO
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Travis Fulton

Travis Fulton is an American mixed martial artist and a professional boxer in the heavyweight division. He has notched up over 300 vale tudo and mixed martial arts fights since 1996 and over 30 boxing matches since 1999....

|KO
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Richard Davis
|KO
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Harold Johnson
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Brian McNeff
|TKO
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Chris McCarl
|KO
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Justin Wills
|KO
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Darryl Becker
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Eric Graham
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Richard Slack
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Gerald Hill
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External links

"It Came From Montana: The Odyssey of Tye Fields" by Steven Shabo

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