Just looking at Phillips record and this is some boxer , he's been pro for 18 years and took on class boxers since he started, and he's still going strong now. he lost 4 of his first 12 fights two of those to future world champ Carl Daniels, then for some reason he seemed to relocate to Argentina, which seems odd for a american boxer to do, but it didn't do him any harm as he won all 10 fights, including beating Julio Cesar Vasquez.
Since then his gone on to win the WBO , WBU and IBF light middle wieght titles , although he's lost some along the way they are nearly always close contested fights, and Phillips has always come back well, couple of weeks ago he beat Teddy Reid by KO, so is still in the picture for anther title shot.
Credit to the sport.
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=001097