Henry Kanonta Buchanan (born August 5, 1978) is an American

professional boxer Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by contract. Most professional bouts are supervised by a regulatory autho ...

Professional career

Known as "Sugar Poo", Buchanan began his professional career in 2004, and was undefeated heading into a ShoBox Super Middleweight eliminator tournament, and lost to

Jean Paul Mendy Jean-Paul Mendy (born December 14, 1973 in Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines) is a professional boxer from France, who won the bronze medal in the middleweight division (– 75 kg) at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, ...

''The Contender''

He was the featured boxers on the 3rd season of the boxing reality TV series, '' The Contender'', ''

The Contender (season 3) ''The Contender 3'' is a reality television show based on the sport of boxing, but with an element of the (super middleweight) competitor's lives and relationships with each other within the show's living quarters, based in Pasadena, California. T ...

'', premiering September 4, 2007 on

ESPN ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The ...

. Episode that aired on September 11, 2007 said that for personal reasons, he would not participate in season 3 of ''The Contender''. Buchanan later revealed that it was a business and financial decision, as his promoter did not want to surrender Buchanan's promotional rights to ESP

Notes

He is the uncle of San Diego Chargers linebacker

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Professional boxing record

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