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This bout is to be correctly classified as at heavyweight (not cruiserweight) as former WBO World Junior middleweight and WBO World Middleweight champion Simon, now 27-0, and opponent Groenewald were both over the 200 pound limit in Namibia. Simon, 40 at the time of this bout, lost five years in his career (2002 to 2007) due to a prison sentence handed down after a fatal auto accident when he was driving. SImon served his sentence. Roy Jones Jr. traveled as a world champion from middleweight to heavyweight, but Simon is the first former world junior middleweight champion to make the transition to heavyweight-a plus fifty pound jump. Simon's last world championship bout was in April 2002 when he won the the WBO Middleweight title from Armand Krajnc. Time of TKO: 1:23 of the first. Groenwald had either won by knockout or gone the distance in his first 26 pro bouts until he got stopped by Carl Froch in the fifth round of a Commonwealth (British Empire) title bout in Nottingham, England, on December 2, 2005. Groenewald was never the same fighter after that. For 83 seconds of work, Simon was paid U.S. $24,000, Groenewald $18,000. Groenewald was knocked down twice, prompting his corner to throw in the towel.

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