Antonio Tarver Tickets

Antonio Tarver, former light heavyweight champion is scheduled to return to the ring as a heavyweight to fight Nagy Aguilera (16-4-0, 11 KOs) on Friday, October 15, 2010. The exact location has not been announced yet. Tarver has not fought since losing to Chad Dawson in a light heavyweight bout on May 9, 2009. Aguilera has lost two out of his last three fights in 2010. Aguilera's biggest victory was his 1st round TKO win over former WBC heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev in December 2009.

Fight Location Date Boxing Tickets
Tarver vs Aguilera United States October 15, 2010
Friday		  

Antonio "Magic Man" Tarver

(27-6-0, 19 KOs)

Antonio Tarver, prior to becoming a professional boxer had an impressive amateur career winning the 1994 National Golden Gloves Light Heavyweight champion, 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships and 1996 Olympics Light Heavyweight bronze medal.

On Saturday, May 15, 2004 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada in Tarver-Jones II, Antonio Tarver became the first man to ever knockout Roy Jones Jr. Only once in 50 previous fights had Jones been sent to the canvas and he had never lost a fight by KO.

In 2006 Tarver starred in Rocky Balboa aka Rocky VI as the heavyweight division champion Mason "The Line" Dixon. The primary opponent of fictional boxer Rocky Balboa based on Chuck Wepner who inspired Sylvester Stallone to write the Rocky movies.

Antonio Tarver, after losing a 12-round UD to Bernard Hopkins on Saturday, June 9, 2006 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey did not fight for a year. Then on Saturday, June 9, 2007 in Hartford, Connecticut, Tarver shook off the ring rust winning a 12-round MD over Elvir "The Kosovo Kid" Muriqi plus the vacant IBO light heavyweight title. In his next fight on Saturday, December 1, 2007, at Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut, Tarver retained his IBO light heavyweight title scoring a 4th round KO over Danny Santiago.

Southpaw Antonio Tarver outboxed and beat light heavyweight champion Clinton Woods from Sheffield, England by 12-round UD on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at St Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida. Tarver retained his IBO light heavyweight title successfully defending it for the second time and captured Woods' IBF light heavyweight title.

Antonio Tarver lost a 12-round unanimous decision to challenger Chad Dawson (27-0-0, 17 KOs) on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada. The judge's scores were 110-117, 110-117 and 109-118. In addition to losing the fight to Dawson, Tarver also lost his IBF and IBO light heavyweight titles. The fight was as part of a double header televised on Showtime with the Vitali Klitschko vs Samuel Peter Tarver fight in Berlin, Germany.

Antonio Tarver lost an IBF/IBO light heavyweight title rematch to Chad Dawson (28-0-0, 17 KOs) by 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday, May 9, 2009 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Scores were 111-117, 111-117 and 112-116. The heavier handed Tarver buzzed Dawson in the 7th round with a right followed up by a combination of punches and again in the 11th but Dawson was the busier fighter. Prior to this loss to Dawson, Tarver had won all of his rematches including Roy Jones Jr, Glen Johnson and Eric Harding.