Trevor Cosmo Bryan Jr (born August 23, 1989) is an American

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and former

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Champion.

Early life

Trevor Bryan was born on August 23, 1989 in

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. He began boxing at the age of 11, and had a very promising but short amateur career. He is trained by Stacey McKinley, a former trainer of

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and promoted by boxing promoter Don King.

Professional career

Bryan made his professional debut in May 2011 defeating Demarcus Young by RTD in the second round in

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. In August 2015, Bryan beat

Derric Rossy Derric Rossy (born July 2, 1980) is an American former professional boxer and a former defensive end at Boston College. He enrolled in the Lynch School of Education with a major in human development. Rossy knocked out Gary Bell in the second ro ...

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and won the WBC- NABF Junior

title. Even though Bryan scored a first-round knockdown, Rossy proved to be a tricky opponent and the fight ended being very competitive and exciting until the last bell. Bryan would go on to beat former cruiserweight title challenger

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to win the WBA interim heavyweight title. Bryan was due to fight

Mahmoud Charr Mahmoud Omeirat Charr ( ar, محمود عميرات شعار), previously known as Manuel Charr, is a German professional boxer who held the WBA (Regular) heavyweight title from 2017 to 2021, and challenged for the WBC heavyweight title in 20 ...

on January 29, 2021 for his WBA (Regular) heavyweight title; however, Charr could not travel to fight as he did not have a valid

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. Due to this, Bryan instead fought former WBC champion

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for the vacant title, which had been stripped from Charr due to being inactive for too long. Bryan knocked his opponent down twice and won the bout by eleventh-round technical knockout, becoming the WBA (Regular) champion. Bryan lost his title when he was defeated by Daniel Dubois by knockout in the fourth round in front of approximately 500 spectators at

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in Florida on 11 June 2022 on a card promoted by Don King.Daniel Dubois knocks out American Trevor Bryan to win WBA 'regular' heavyweight title
BBC (11 June 2022)

Professional boxing record

References

External links

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Trevor Bryan - Profile, News Archive & Current Rankings
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