The CBZ Newswire

Former Featherweight Contender Drops 20 lbs, Ready to Make Run at World Title

CHICAGO, IL, November 10, 2011 — Fans of Chicago-based professional boxer Johnny Lewus (25-4-1, 21 KOs) better get used to seeing a lot less of him.

Lewus, who will face Saint Paul, Minnesota’s Allen “The American Boy” Litzau in the eight-round lightweight main event of Hitz Boxing’s “Thanksgiving Eve Belvedere Bash”, on Wednesday, November 23, at The Belvedere in Elk Grove, Illinois, will be coming in a full 20 lbs lighter than when he began his comeback as a junior middleweight last year. (continue reading…)

Report and photos by Juan C. Ayllon at ringside

Fres Oquendo (left) sends spray flying from Demetrice King's head with a thudding right.

HAMMOND, Ind., February 20, 2010 –Carol Stream, Illinois heavyweight boxer Fres Oquendo said that his opponent would be dangerous, but he’d box carefully and chop him down.  And that’s exactly what he did over nine rounds.

Built like a stubby tree trunk at roughly 5’ 10” and 273 lbs., Demetrice King manifests the quintessential dangerous opponent.  Just ask Bowie Tupou, an undefeated Tongan puncher with 18 wins and 14 knockouts whom King flattened in two rounds last August.  Or former alphabet soup heavyweight champ Shannon Briggs, a banger who gave former champ Lennox Lewis fits before getting stopped himself back in 1998; he was knocked down three times by King in March 2005 before stopping him in the second round, and less than a year and a half later, Briggs went on to win the World Boxing Organization heavyweight title.  Sporting a record of 15-17 and 13 knockout wins, King had only been stopped by Briggs.  (continue reading…)