Calvin Brock

Name: Calvin Brock
Alias: The Boxing Banker
Birth Name: Calvin Vance Brock
Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Birthplace: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 188cm
Reach: 196cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

Trainers: Tom Yankello, Pernell Whitaker
Manager: Jim Thomas
Promoter: Carl Moretti (Main Events)

Amateur Career

• 1999 US and US Challenge Champion, and a two-time Silver Medallist in previous US Championships.
• 1998 National Golden Gloves Heavyweight Champion
• 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, he competed at Super heavyweight and was stopped in the 4th round of his opening bout with Paolo Vidoz of Italy.

Factoids

• Known as 'The Boxing Banker'

• Brock earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Finance from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

• Brock was forced into permanent retirement due to botched eye surgery in December 2007. The procedure's intent was to repair a detached retina in his right eye, suffered in his last bout, a 12 round split decision loss in an IBF heavyweight eliminator to Eddie Chambers. As a result of a surgical mistake, Brock was left legally blind in the affected right eye.

• Calvin Brock versus Eddie Chambers, full ShoBox November 2, 2007 12 round bout on YouTube, commentary in Russian [[1]].

• He also underwent shoulder surgery after his last bout.

• Brock became a commercial real estate broker after retirement from the ring.

• Married with a daughter.

External Link

• March 2009 Doghouse Boxing interview with Calvin Brock [2]

• June 2016 YouTube video interiew wqith Calvin Brock on the status of the heavyweight division [[3]]