Former U.S. Olympian Dominic Breazeale (16-0, 14 KOs) opposes Amir Mansour (22-1-1) at the Staples Center on Saturday, Jan. 22. The 10-round contest girds the WBC welterweight title match between Danny Garcia and Robert Guerrero.
Breazeale has a football background. Recruited out of the junior college ranks, he started 21 games at quarterback for the Northern Colorado University Bears in 2006 and 2007. The team was awful. In his first season, UNC finished 1-10. The next year, the Bears were 1-11. In Breazeale's lone start against a Division 1 opponent, his team was clobbered 63-6 by Hawaii.
This was hardly his fault. He put up some good numbers at Northern Colorado, completing 57.9 percent of his passes. An NFL consulting firm rated him the thirty-third best quarterback among players eligible for the 2008 draft.
Competing in the super heavyweight division, the 6'6" Breazeale was eliminated in the first round of the 2012 Olympics by Magomed Omarov, a Russian. That he even made the Olympic team was quite an achievement as he had been boxing for only four years and had virtually no international amateur experience.
Now 30 years old, Breazeale was scheduled to fight Charles Martin in his last bout, but Martin pulled out when offered a chance to fight for the vacant IBF heavyweight title. In Amir Mansour, he meets a 43-year-old southpaw whose career was interrupted twice by stints in prison, the first an eight-and-a-half year interlude on a drug related charge.
Former football players haven't fared well in the squared circle (now there's a story idea for another day). Dominic Breazeale may prove the exception.
Breazeale has a football background. Recruited out of the junior college ranks, he started 21 games at quarterback for the Northern Colorado University Bears in 2006 and 2007. The team was awful. In his first season, UNC finished 1-10. The next year, the Bears were 1-11. In Breazeale's lone start against a Division 1 opponent, his team was clobbered 63-6 by Hawaii.
This was hardly his fault. He put up some good numbers at Northern Colorado, completing 57.9 percent of his passes. An NFL consulting firm rated him the thirty-third best quarterback among players eligible for the 2008 draft.
Competing in the super heavyweight division, the 6'6" Breazeale was eliminated in the first round of the 2012 Olympics by Magomed Omarov, a Russian. That he even made the Olympic team was quite an achievement as he had been boxing for only four years and had virtually no international amateur experience.
Now 30 years old, Breazeale was scheduled to fight Charles Martin in his last bout, but Martin pulled out when offered a chance to fight for the vacant IBF heavyweight title. In Amir Mansour, he meets a 43-year-old southpaw whose career was interrupted twice by stints in prison, the first an eight-and-a-half year interlude on a drug related charge.
Former football players haven't fared well in the squared circle (now there's a story idea for another day). Dominic Breazeale may prove the exception.
A Loser on the Gridiron, Dominic Breazeale is a Winner in the Ring
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