Michael Simms

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Medal record
Men’s Boxing
Competitor for United States
World Amateur Championships
Gold	1999 Houston	Light Heavyweight

Michael Simms Jr (b. July 26, 1974 in Sacramento, CA) is a US American boxer best known to win the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships at light heavyweight.

[edit] Amateur

Simms won the tournament in Houston 1999 by beating David Haye 8-2, Humberto Savigne of Cuba 5-1, defeating Ali Ismayilov of Azerbaijan by 7-5 and getting a controversial 3-3 (countback 33-26) decision over John Dovi of France in the final.

He was dropped from the Olympics 2000 team for breaches of discipline, and replaced with Olanda Anderson.[1]

[edit] Pro

He turned pro in 2000 but disappointed displaying a world class chin but moderate power and questionable work ethics. He drew with undefeated Felix Cora in 2003, then lost to undefeated heavyweight Yanqui Diaz, the rematch with Cora in 2004, undefeated cruiser Vadim Tokarev, Ola Afolabi (9-1) and undefeated Marco Huck in 2005. In 2007 he lost to Louis Azille and undefeated heavyweight Roman Greenberg.