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William Joppy
(William Torelle Joppy)

BORN   September 11 197-0; Washington, District of Columbia
HEIGHT 5-9
WEIGHT 152-179 1/2 lbs
TRAINER William Johnson
Joppy is a talented fighter with a punch; He has lost only five of 45 bouts and has scored 30 knockouts; William has won the WBA Middleweight Championship of the World during his career

He has beaten such men as Roberto Duran, Howard Eastman, Jonathan Reid, Hacine Cherifi, Naotaka Hozumi, Rito Ruvalcaba, Jonathan Corn, Fernando Zuniga, Julio Cesar Green, Peter Venancio, Shinji Takehara amd Rodney Toney
1993
Feb 26 Dwayne Tennet               Camp Hill, Pa                    W  4
Apr 30 Ken Ruffin                  Woodbridge, Va                  TK  1
May 12 Shane Martin                Baltimore, Md                   TK  3
Jun 18 Tim Tisdale                 Woodbridge, Va                  TK  1
Aug 13 George Taylor               Largo, Md                       TK  3
          -Some sources report "Landover, Md"
Sep 25 Ivory Teague                Landover, Md                    KO  2
Oct 21 Tyrone Haywood              Washington, DC                  KO  2

1994 
Jan  7 Willie Taylor               Upper Marlboro, Md              TK  3
Feb 17 Robert Harris               Upper Marlboro, Md              TK  1
Feb 27 Tony McCrimmion             Atlantic City, NJ               TK  2
Apr 08 Ken Parker                  Upper Marlboro, Md              TK  2
Apr 14 Muhammad Shabazz            Richmond, Va                    TK  5
May 13 Carl Sullivan               Upper Marlboro, Md              TK  4
Jun 15 Carlos Christie             London, England                  W  6
Jul 30 Miguel Angel Hernandez      Las Vegas, Nv                   KO  3
Aug 13 Richard Evans               Atlantic City, NJ                W  8
Sep 20 Tony Cartrell               Washington, DC                  KO  2

1995 
Mar  1 Tony McCrimmion             Fort Lauderdale, Fl             KO  3
Apr 29 Joaquin Velasquez           Landover, Md                     W 10
Sep 16 Rodney Toney                Las Vegas, Nv                    D 12
          -NABF Middleweight Championship
Dec  7 Israel Figueroa             Upper Marlboro, Md              KO  1

1996 
Feb 10 David Boone                 Las Vegas, Nv                   TK  2
Jun 24 Shinji Takehara             Yokohama, Japan                 TK  9
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World
          Report
Oct 19 Ray McElroy                 Upper Marlboro, Md              TK  7
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World;
          Some sources report "TK 6"

1997 
May 10 Peter Venancio              Coconut Grove, Fl                W 12
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World
Aug 23 Julio Cesar Green           New York, NY                     L 12
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World

1998 
Jan 31 Julio Cesar Green           Tampa, Fl                        W 12
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World
Aug 28 Roberto Duran               Las Vegas, Nv                   TK  3
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World
          Report

1999 
Jul 24 Napoleon Pitts              Las Vegas, Nv                   TK  1
Sep 24 Julio Cesar Green           Washington, DC                  TK  7
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World

2000 
Mar  3 Fernando Zuniga             Las Vegas, Nv                    W 10
May 20 Rito Ruvalcaba              Tunica, Ms                      TK  1
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World
Sep 16 Hacine Cherifi              Las Vegas, Nv                    W 12
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World
Dec  2 Jonathan Reid               Las Vegas, Nv                   TK  4
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World

2001
May 12 Felix Trinidad              New York, NY                    LT  5
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World
Nov 17 Howard Eastman              Las Vegas, Nv                    W 12
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World

2002
Oct 10 Naotaka Hozumi              Tokyo, Japan                    TK 10
          -WBA Middleweight Championship of the World

2003
Dec 13 Bernard Hopkins             Atlantic City, NJ                L 12
          -WBC Middleweight Championship of the World;
          WBA Middleweight Championship of the World;
          IBF Middleweight Championship of the World

2004
Dec  4 Jermain Taylor              Little Rock, Ar                  L 12
          -WBC Continental Americas Middleweight Championship

2005
Jul 29 Rashaan Abdul Blackburn     North Charleston, SC            TK  3

2006
Jan  7 Eric Howard                 New York, NY                    TK  5
Jul  8 Jonathan Corn               St. Louis, Mo                   KO  5

2007
Apr 27 Virgil McClendon            Washington, DC                  TK  1
Nov 16 Etienne Whitaker            Gros Islet, Saint Lucia         TK  1

2008
Feb 29 Lucian Bute                 Montreal, Que, Canada           LT 10
          -IBF Super Middleweight Championship of the World

2010
Mar  6 Sebastien Demers            Montreal, Que, Canada            L 10
Nov  6 Cory Cummings               Fairfax, Va                      D 10


Record courtesy of Matt Tegen, Historian, International Boxing Research Organization

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