Alan Blyweiss

Name: Alan Blyweiss
Alias: The Rock
Hometown: Pikesville, Maryland, USA
Pro Boxer: Record

• Today serves as a boxing trainer, manager and promoter in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, at the Blyweiss Boxing Club.
• Amateur record of 88-12 in Maryland as a light heavyweight, cruiserweight, heavyweight competitor.
• Fought in the 1984 and 1987 Maryland Golden Gloves, 178 Pound Open Class competitions.
• Known as 'The Rock'. Trained out of Hillcrest Heights Boxing Gym, Hillcrest, Maryland.
• Pro career faltered at 0-2. Became a professional sparring partner for Kevin Rooney with Jeremy Williams and Terry Ray in Catskill, New York in 1990s, and later served as principal sparring partner for Vincent Boulware.
• Fought the former world heavyweight Tommy Morrison in the National AAU Golden Gloves tournament open class light heavyweight, and lost a four round decision in a bloodfest bout in which both fighters sustained broken noses. Blyweiss was contacted by CDC by mail in Pennsylvania a decade later and submitted to voluntary HIV/AIDS testing due to his bloody amateur AAU bout with Morrison. Tested HIV negative.
• Trained by late Vardell McCann, who trained heavyweights Jerry Jones and Garing Lane who fought Ray Mercer.