1986 Breland-Miller & Biggs-Davis update & lost undercard bout

[ProfessorLindenbrook]

Greetings once again. In the course of more archival tape transferring I've found some missing data and a "lost" undercard bout for your database. On September 14, 1986 the U.S. cable network ESPN telecast a special Sunday night boxing card featuring former U.S. Olympians Mark Breland & Tyrell Biggs in 2 of their early pro contests. Here is some missing information from that fight card. The referee for the Tyrell Biggs-Purcell Davis fight was Joe Cortez (who also was the 3rd man for the Mark Breland-Reggie Miller main event). Missing completely from your records is an undercard fight contested just before the main event. This was a scheduled 4 round Welterweight fight between Marcell Triplett (announced as 2-0 with 1 KO) vs. George "The Boss" Ross (announced as 3-2 with 3 KOs). This fight ended at 1:38 of the 1st round after Triplett connected with a vicious overhand right that put Ross down hard forcing an immediate halt to the fight. The referee for the fight was Vinnie Rainone. According to your listed records, this would put Triplett's final record at 4-0 with 2 KOs. However, there must be another missing fight on his record if the announced 2-0 (1 KO) record prior to this fight is correct. Other information I learned from the telecast were the following stats : Marcel Triplett weighed in for the fight at 147 1/2 lbs..
He was listed at 5' 9''. He was fighting out of Fayetteville, North Carolina, but was born in Jackson, Tennessee. As for the defeated George "The Boss" Ross, this would change your listed data on him to 3-4 (3 KOs). Ross was listed as being 5' 9" and weighing 148 1/2 for this fight. Off this short fight Triplett looked to be a fairly promising young (he was announced as being only 19) fighter and I wonder what derailed his career. Maybe I'll run into other "missing" fights of his as I go through the massive 40+ years of original recordings I'm sifting through right now. Some of this info is no doubt unimportant in the final scheme of things, but as a boxing historian, anything that helps preserve the sports' history is a good thing. Hope this info was helpful. Hope to find more tidbits as I go along.