Michael Hunter (American boxer)
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Michael Hunter Jr. (b. July 10, 1988 ) is a US-American heavyweight boxer best known to win the National Super Heavyweight championships in 2007. He is the son of Mike "the Bounty" Hunter.
[edit] Career
Hunter, who is coached by Augie Sanchez, is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 215 pounds, relying on speed and quickness to succeed.
In 2006 at the age of 18 he made it to the finals of the National Golden Gloves with only five bouts where he lost to Felix Stewart and won the bronze medal at the Under-19 World Championships in Morocco by scoring wins over Andrey Volkov of Russia and Pavel Kulda of Lithuania before losing in the semifinals to eventual winner Cristian Ciocan of Romania.
In 2007 now based in Las Vegas he narrowly outpointed two-time winner Mike Wilson to win the US championships.
At the Olympic trials 2007 he easily beat Wilson-conqueror Kimdo Bethel twice and won the tournament. At the World Championships 2007 he beat Kurban Günebakan 30:7 and Jasem Delavari and lost only 15:22 to world #1 and European champion Islam Timurziev.
At the first qualifier he beat Oscar Rivas but lost to Cuban Robert Alfonso 1:9, at the second he beat Didier Bence but lost to Jose Payares and thus failed to qualify for the 2008 Olympics.
| Preceded by Jonte Willis |
United States Amateur Super Heavyweight Champion 2007 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
