At noon today, in a contest for the vacant WBA ordinary heavyweight champion that ended in Hollywood, Florida, American boxer Trevor Brian not only made a successful comeback, but also officially fulfilled his dream of being a world champion, and he knocked down his opponent in the 11th round of the confrontation with former WBC boxing champion Bemane Stevenne, becoming the new WBA ordinary heavyweight champion.
The 31-year-old Brian ended a 29-month inactivity against Mahmoud Char (31-4, 17KO), a Lebanese living in Germany. Char was previously an official WBA regular champion, but unfortunately has not appeared on stage since beating Belarusian boxer Alexander Ustinov in 2017. At first, Char signed a confrontation agreement with Brian, but just a few days before the start of the game, Char could not travel to the United States smoothly due to visas and many other reasons, and because of this matter, he broke up with the promoter Don King, and saw that the contest could not be staged as scheduled, the WBA made a temporary decision, that is, to list Char as a "rest champion", and then the original WBA transition champion Brian and Stevenne competed for the vacant ordinary championship title.
At the beginning of the competition, Brian, who has an advantage in height and arm length, uses the stinging fist to attack at a medium and long distance, his attack goes up to the head, down to the body, and constantly attacks Stevenne, Stevenne is very passive due to his poor state, but as the competition deepens, Stevenne's attack improves slightly, and even in the middle stage, the gap between the two sides was narrowed, but at this time, Brian's advantage of youth and better physical fitness began to appear.
After the 7th round, Brian's advantage became more and more obvious, and by the 9th round, the situation was completely controlled, when the 11th round opened less than 1 minute, Brian hit consecutive attacks, one of the right hand heavy punches directly knocked down Stevenne, Stevenne gritted his teeth and got up to fight again, but unfortunately, after the second fall, referee Frank Giandilai terminated the game, and the match stayed in the 11th round for 1 minute and 26 seconds.
After this campaign, Brian's record was rewritten to 21 wins and 15 KO opponents, which was his first game since defeating BJ Flores in September 2018, and Stevenne's record after the defeat was rewritten to 25 wins, 5 losses, 1 draw, 21 KO opponents, which was his third consecutive defeat in confrontations, and stevenne's match density was very low in recent years, and he had not tasted victory since the second match was destroyed by Deonte Verde in November 2015.
Brian aims to stay more active in 2021 and strive for bigger tournaments, targeting WBA Super, IBF, WBO boxing champion Anthony Joshua. Brian said: "I want to play against all the top boxers, Joshua, Fury are on my radar and I want to stay active until I find them. ”
Brian wants to compete with Joshua, and this year seems to be very unlikely, after all, the other side has reached a preliminary agreement with Fury on the boxing championship, so Brian wants to get such an opportunity, at least until 2022, but before realizing the relevant wishes, he should still hone and improve himself more through competition. In addition, Brian's victory this time is also a great thing for the promoter Don Kim, at least Don Kim has become the boss of the heavyweight boxing king, and according to Don Kim's past all-out style, maybe he will "create" a bigger cold door and miracle through Brian.