Harold Knight

Name: Harold Knight
Alias: The Shadow
Hometown: Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 170cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

Notes

• Claimed amateur record of 103-13 (50 KOs).
• Won five New Jersey Golden Gloves titles.
• Won the USBA junior lightweight title in 1987.
• Fought Rocky Lockridge for the IBF junior lightweight title in 1988 and lost by a 15-round unanimous decision.
• Career ended when he failed a brain scan in 1988. "I was preparing for a fight in New York when I took an MRI brain scan and it showed I had a cyst liaison on the brain that was benign," Knight said. "The commission doctor, Barry Jordan, said I was born with it."
• Retired with a professional record of 19-1 (15 KOs).
• Became a trainer after he retired as a boxer. Knight was co-trainer for Lennox Lewis.
• Inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame in 2000.