Tyrone Booze is a former boxer who held the World Boxing Organization

World Boxing Organization

The World Boxing Organization is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing professional boxing world champions. The organization is recognized as one of the four major world championship groups by the IBHOF alongside the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Council and the...

 cruiserweight world championship.

Booze became a professional boxer in 1982 and had mixed success during his early career. He had early losses in the 1980s to Evander Holyfield

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, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad

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, Johnny DuPlooy

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- Boxing career :The tall 6`3 South African boxer started his career in 1985 and beat 17 opponents. He then was stopped cold after losing to ex-champ Mike Weaver by 7th round KO...

, Bert Cooper

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, Dwigh Braxton (to be known as Dwight Muhammad Qawi

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), and Henry Tillman

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. In 1990 he lost to Nate Miller

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 for the North American Boxing Federation

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 cruiserweight title and lost by a unanimous decision. After winning one fight he then challenged Magne Havnaa in 1991 for the WBO cruiserweight belt. He lost a twelve-round split decision. When Havnaa relinquished his title, Booze knocked out Derek Angol on July 25, 1992, and won the WBO title. He defended the belt once, against Ralf Rocchigiani

Ralf Rocchigiani

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. On February 13, 1993, Markus Bott

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 defeated Booze by a unanimous decision to take the title.

Booze did not fight for a title again and retired in 1998 after losing to Jesse Ferguson

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.

On September 19, 2011, Tyrone Booze and Super Bowl XXXVII

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 MVP Dexter Jackson began a new radio show called "All Sports" with Randy Harris on Clearwater, Florida

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's WTAN

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 AM 1340. The show is also aired on WDCF

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, WZHR

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 and online on the Talking Sports Network.

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