![]() The fighter known as Superbad, a nickanme Steward gave him, handed Jermell Charlo his only loss and took his 154-pound title in New York in 2018, then lost the championship in Canada a year later in an 11-round rematch. While Harrison has trained in Detroit at his own gym, he has been forced to go from coast to coast and other countries to compete. Fighting paycheck to paycheck, rent to rent.” “It should be the highest support for fighting because people from Detroit, they know how to do one thing and that's fight. “There's no support for fighters no more,” Harris told AP from Australia, wearing a Detroit Tigers baseball cap. Little Caesars Arena, home of the Red Wings and Pistons, has not had a boxing event and doesn't have one on the calendar any time soon. His last fight in Detroit, though, was nearly a decade ago in the Cobo Center Ballroom. The 32-year-old Harrison, who was managed early in his career by famed trainer Emanuel Steward, had his fourth fight at the MotorCity Casino. The best active boxer from Detroit is fighting this weekend on the other side of the world because his hometown does not host big-time bouts these days.įormer champion Tony Harrison (29-3-1, 21 KOs) is fighting Australian Tim Tszyu (21-0, 15-0 KOs) on Sunday in Sydney for the vacant WBO 154-pound title. The bad news for the event, and for Detroit's once-fabled boxing scene in general, was that Hearns was easily the biggest name on hand. ![]()
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