Arthur Johnson, 1988 U. S. Olympian

[williefromrichmond]

Arthur Johnson

Born February 16, 1966, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Resident of East St. Louis, Illinois, now of O’Fallon, Illinois

Began boxing 1978

5’ 7” 106-112

Orthodox stance

Partial record below: 39-13

1982

xxxx - Terry Dominque L
U. S. National Golden Gloves light-flyweight _______; ________, ________.

Dec. 12 - Troy Tomms L 1-4
U. S. National Amateur (winter) light-flyweight participant (lost in first series of the competition); Indianapolis.

1983

xxxx - Hector Lopez L
U. S. National Golden Gloves light-flyweight _______; ________, ______.

Nov. 7 - Jesse Gonzalez W ret 1
Nov. 8 - Darrin Pitts W 3-2
Nov. 9 - Michael Carbajal W 5-0
Nov. 10 - Tim Curley L 0-5
U. S. National Amateur light-flyweight semifinalist; Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1984

xxxx - Michael Davis W
xxxx - Johnny Tapia L
U. S. National Golden Gloves light-flyweight ________; _________, _______.

May 12 - Joe Bales W 5-0
May 13 - Johnny Tapia W
U. S. Olympic Western Trials light-flyweight champion; Colorado Springs, Colorado.

June 6 - Michael Black L 0-5
U. S. Olympic Trials light-flyweight quarterfinalist; Fort Worth, Texas. “’It was a very even fight,’ said Black after the bout. ‘Arthur Johnson is a very talented fighter. He’s kind of slick and he slips in those quick jabs whenever he gets a chance.’ In the first round, Black was in control as he moved and scored well with a left jab followed by a right. In the second round, Johnson looked smooth as he moved in close and threw hard punches to Black’s body. In the third, Black threw a number of punches which scored well” (Fort Worth [Texas] Star-Telegram 6-7-84:C-8).

June 30 - Rafael Ramos L
USA vs. Puerto Rico; San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Aug. 22 - David Villar W rsc 2
Aug. 24 - Cecil Thompson W rsc 2
Aug. 25 - Fernando Gonzales W rsc 2
U. S. Junior light-flyweight champion; Lake Placid, New York.

Nov. 20 - Paul Buttimer W pts 3-0
U. S. A. Juniors vs. Ireland Juniors; ________ _________.

1985

Jan. 29 - Nshan Munchyan W
U. S. A. vs. Soviet Union; Buffalo, New York.

Feb. 6 -
U. S. A. vs. Ireland; ___________.

Mch. 25 - David Gonzalez W rsc 2
Mch. 26 - Fernando Gonzales W
Mch. 28 - Jeffery Winters W rsc 1
Mch. 29 - Gregory Trice W
Mch. 30 - Brian Lonon W 5-0
U. S. National Golden Gloves light-flyweight champion; Little Rock, Arkansas.

Apr. 30 - Pedro Orlando Reyes L
USA vs. Cuba; Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Aug. 2 - Darryl Dawson W rsc 3
Johnson “used a stinging right from the outset to get the upper hand on Dawson, punishing his adversary throughout the bout, which ended with a flurry that moved the referee to stop the bout at 2:02 of the third” (Baton Rouge [Louisiana] Morning Advocate 8-2-85:2).
Aug. 4 - Brian Lonon W 5-0
National Sports Festival VI light-flyweight champion; Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “The best example of an amateur-style boxing exhibition came from the gloves of the lightest champ, the 106-pound Johnson. Johnson scored consistently throughout with his jab. He came out of his corner at the start swinging, obviously wanting to avoid the fate of top-ranked world light-flyweight James Harris, who was overwhelmed by Lonon’s rush two days earlier. When the infighting got sticky, Johnson reached down for his bolo punch, usually a sweeping punch of the right hand. Johnson got the upper hand in the second round when he forced Lonon to take a standing eight-count off an inside flurry” (Baton Rouge [Louisiana] Morning Advocate 8-5-85:12).

Aug. 16 - Rafael Ramos L 0-5
North American light-flyweight semifinalist; Beaumont, Texas.

Dec. 9 - Scott Depew W 5-0
Dec. 11 - Donald Stokes W ret 3
Dec. 13 - Richard Duran W 5-0
“Johnson has this look in his eye ... (and] used the glare to defeat Duran.... ‘I knew he couldn’t fight going to the left and I could get off my jab,’ said Johnson of Duran. ‘But I was in control of the match from bell one. My strategy was to throw hard and fast punches and I was throwing him off with my jab. I wanted to get off quick with this guy. I wanted to throw the jab to set him up for the bomb (his right). I wasn’t trying to knock him out, but if it came, it came’” (Tulsa [Oklahoma] World 12-14-85:B-1).
Dec. 14 - Kennedy McKinney W rsc 2
USA/ABF flyweight champion; Tulsa, Oklahoma. Johnson “forced McKinney into a pair of standing eight-counts in the second round before their bout was stopped. ‘He was a gutsy kid,’ said Johnson. ‘I started out slow, but I knew I was in tremendous shape. I knew I’d get to him sooner or later. My punches took their toll. He scored with his jab and a lot of combinations. I just found an opening and went into the second round ready to tend to business. I worked a lot of body shots and they paid off. I hit him with a right uppercut and hurt him with a shot to the body. The I hit him with a hook. When I caught him with the body shots, I knew I wouldn’t be in there too much longer” (Tulsa [Oklahoma] World 12-15-85:E-9).

1986

Apr. 4 - W
Apr. 5 - Kennedy McKinney
U. S. Amateur flyweight __________; Beaumont, Texas.

Apr. 11 - __________ W 4-1
U. S. World Championships Box-Offs flyweight ________; Stateline, Nevada.

May 9 - Eyub Can (Turkey) L 2-3
World Championships flyweight participant (lost in first series of the competition); Reno, Nevada.

July 11 - Janos Varadi (Hungary) W 5-0
July 13 - Hamilton Jose Rodriguez (Brazil) W 5-0
July 15 - David Griman (Venezuela) W 3-2
July 17 - Rinvidas Biulis (Soviet Union) W 4-1
Goodwill Games flyweight champion; Moscow, Soviet Union.

1987

Mch. 31 - Gerard Norton W ret 1
Apr. 1 - Anthony Perez W rsc 2
Apr. 2 - Tony Gonzales W 5-0
Apr. 4 - Sergio Reyes W 3-2
USA/ABF flyweight champion; Buffalo, New York. Johnson, “who said he was fighting with a ‘broken right hand,’ won his third straight 112-pound title. ‘It hurt, but I just had to suck it up and keep working,’ said Johnson” (Buffalo [New York] News 4-5-87:C-6).

July 19 - Eddie Cook W 5-0
July 21 - Jose Arreola L 1-4
U. S. Olympic Festival flyweight finalist; Raleigh, North Carolina. “Arreola ... gave up five inches and little else en route to a decision against Johnson. ‘I won the first and second rounds pretty easily, then I gave him the third round,’ said Arreola. ‘It wasn’t close. He was too over-confident’” (Huntingdon [Pennsylvania] Daily News 7-22-87:5).

Aug. xx - Corey Burton (Canada) W rsc 1
Aug. 17 - Adalberto Regalado (Cuba) L 2-3
Pan American Championships flyweight finalist; Indianapolis, Indiana. “The night seemed to start out on a good note for the U. S. team as Johnson got off strongly and easily won the first round against Regallado. But Regalado took the second roound and even a strong Johnson performance in the third round failed to convince the ringside judges. The three judges who voted for Regalado had him winning by only one point, while Johnson got a three-point edge from one judge and a one-point margin from another. ‘I did the best I could. I thought I won,’ said Johnson. ‘I could see a judge voting for him. I couldn’t see three judges voting for him.’ Johnson said he was thinking of retiring from boxing instead of trying to make the 1988 Olympic team. ‘Right now, I feel as though I’m going to give it up,’ said Johnson. ‘There’s more to life than boxing” (Pacific Stars and Stripes 8-20-87:24).

1988

July 7 - Eddie Cook W 5-0
July 10 - Chris Carrillo W 3-2
U. S. Olympic Trials flyweight champion; Concord, California. “Johnson scored a controversial decision over Carrillo, who carried the fight to Johnson, but in the opinion of the majority of the judges Johnson scored the most blows” (Huntingdon [Pennsylvania] Daily News 7-11-88:5).

July16- Chris Carrillo W 4-1
U. S. Olympic Box-Offs flyweight champion; Las Vegas, Nevada. “Johnson, who had trouble beating Carrillo in the Trials final, used his boxing skills to make things easier for himself” (Annapolis [Maryland]Capital 7-17-88:C-11).

Sept. 18 - Andrea Mannai (Italy) W 5-0
“Johnson established his superiority at the outset of the fight by scoring repeatedly with left hooks to Mannai’s head. Late in the first round, Johnson sent Mannai stumbling backward with a left to the jaw, and there was never any doubt about the outcome after that.... But apparently in the minds of two judges, there was at least some doubt. The officials from Morocco and Venezuela both scored the fight a narrow 59-58 for Johnson, and U. S. coach Ken Adams said those numbers raised new concerns about how fairly the Americans will be treated here” (Syrscuse [New York] Herald Journal 9-18-88:48).
Sept. 21 - Bishnu Bahadur Singh (Nepal) W rsch 2
“Johnson won his second bout in spectacular fashion, knocking Singh down in the second round, then forcing him to take two standing eight-counts before the contest was stopped late in the round” (Syracuse Herald Journal 9-21-88:149).
Sept. 25 - Kim Kwang-Sun (South Korea) L 0-5
Olympic flyweight participant (lost in third series of the competition); Seoul, South Korea.

1992

Turned pro; first pro bout May 11, 1992.

[flashjohnson]

Fights that I won include defeating Arreola a week later after he defeated me , also some areas on record page are inconclusive those were bouts that are not recorded I won a total of 12 national titltes. Refer to Wikipedia. In my book entitled Trials to Truimph my amateur record is recorded as 170 wins and 25 loses.

[flashjohnson]

My amateur record is 170 wins against 25 loses
Please change my amateur record on boxrec so that it reflects what it should be it's not 32-9. It needs to reflect what it truly is 170-25. One of the best amateurs to ever do it. Correct it or take it down to whomever is responsible for posting wins and loses on boxrec.