Wayne Johnsen (born September 7, 1977) is a professional American
boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
* Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing
*Boxer (dog), a breed of dog
Boxer or boxers may also refer to:
Animal kingdom
* Boxer crab
* Boxer shrimp, a small group of decapod crustaceans
* Boxer snipe ee ...
.
Family
Born and raised in
Lyndhurst, New Jersey, Johnsen is a general contractor, and he has a son with his wife Gianna Caruso, his high school sweetheart. Both Wayne and Gianna have been inducted into the Hall of Fame at
St. Mary High School in
Rutherford, New Jersey, her for softball and him for football.
Career
While on a football scholarship at the
University of New Haven, Johnsen, a standout athlete in several sports, blew out his knee and turned to boxing to stay in shape for football. Johnsen was soon recognized in the boxing community as a rising star. The former NJ Golden Glove Finalist served as a sparring partner for world middleweight champion
Jermain Taylor as Taylor prepared for his October 23 rematch against
Bernard Hopkins.
Johnsen (16-1) won a unanimous decision recently on the under-card of the WBA Championship fight between
Miguel Cotto and
Zab Judah.
Johnsen recently signed with Main Events.
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''The Contender''
He was one of the featured boxers on the boxing reality television series, ''The Contender 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 ...
'', which premiered September 4, 2007 on ESPN. He was knocked out by Jaidon Codrington one minute and seventeen seconds into the first round of the sixth fight of the show. Johnsen lost the Bronze medal match versus Sam Soliman
Sam Soliman (born 13 November 1973) is an Australian professional boxer, and former kickboxer and mixed martial artist. In boxing, he held the IBF middleweight title in 2014.
Kickboxing career
Soliman is a former world champion in kickboxi ...
to finish in 4th place in the tournament.
References
External links
Official site
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1977 births
Living people
New Haven Chargers football players
People from Lyndhurst, New Jersey
Sportspeople from Bergen County, New Jersey
Players of American football from Newark, New Jersey
Boxers from Newark, New Jersey
The Contender (TV series) participants
American male boxers
Super-middleweight boxers