Berbick Trevor was the famous winner of Muhammad Ali himself. He has more than three dozen knockouts on his account. The boxer's contribution to the development of American sports has been appreciated by many titles and awards.
Biography
Born in Kingston in the early 50s of the last century. From childhood he was in sports, in his youth he took up boxing. At first he achieved impressive results at the amateur level, and then became the world heavyweight boxing champion.
Berbick's professional career began in Canada, where he moved there immediately after a brilliant streak of victories among amateur boxers. He has more than six dozen battles on his account at the world level, the percentage of victories is more than eighty.
In the late 80s, for the first time, he became the winner of the boxing championship led by the International Boxing Association. He managed to keep his title for just a couple of months, then he lost it to the sensational athlete Mike Tyson. A few years before that, he won an even more famous boxer - Muhammad Ali, who lost to Trevor in the first round. The titled athlete died in 2006 at the hands of his own nephew in his private home in Kingston, Jamaica.
Amateur career
In the mid-70s, Berbick competed from his home country of Jamaica at the Pan American Games, taking the prize-winning third place. He was also an athlete who was chosen to compete in the 1976 Olympics. Unfortunately, the boxer did not get far and was eliminated at the very beginning.
Professional boxing
Having finished his performance at the Olympics, in the same year he decided to finally give up amateur sports and gave preference to high-level boxing. For this purpose, he crossed the ocean and moved to Canada. The first ten fights were won with virtually no chance by a promising fighter, most of them ended with knockouts.
For three years, the talented boxer did not know defeat. But in 1979 he was defeated by Bernardo Mercado, who was defeated at the amateur level, but fell without a chance in the first round at the high level of boxing.
Further, Trevor's career as a professional only continued to gain momentum. After defeating Muhammad Ali, he was recognized as the best boxer in the United States. In the early 80s, he had a winning streak of dozens of battles. Subsequently, its results remained at a consistently high level until 2000. Then, after another victory, Berbick decided to "retire" due to a chronic illness associated with the brain.
Personal life
Trevor became husband twice and became the father of seven children from both wives. In the early 90s, he was convicted of violence against a woman who acted as a nanny for the child of the famous boxer. He served a sentence for a year, but was sentenced to five years, was released for good behavior.
