Jean-Marc Mormeck

Jean-Marc Mormeck
Statistics
Real name	Jean-Marc Gilbert Mormeck
Nickname(s)	The Marksman
Rated at	Heavyweight
Height	5 ft 11 1⁄2 in (182 cm)
Nationality	French
Born	June 3, 1972 (1972-06-03) (age 39) Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	40
Wins	36
Wins by KO	22
Losses	4

Jean-Marc Gilbert Mormeck (born 3 June 1972) is a French professional boxer of Antillean descent and a former WBC & WBA unified world cruiserweight champion.

Early life

Mormeck was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe as an only child to Fulbert and Sonia Mormeck. When he was 6, he and his family moved to Paris, France where he still lives. Mormeck engaged himself in football and Muay Thai as an amateur. After watching some boxing matches on television, he became inspired to excel in it.^[1]

Boxing career

He fought as an amateur in 1990 and turned professional in 1995. Early in his career, Mormeck lost 2 minor four-round bouts on points but kept winning for years afterwards. On 10 November 1998, Mormeck won the French light heavyweight title with a unanimous decision win over Alain Simon. He defended that title three times before relinquishing it.

Later, Mormeck captured the WBA cruiserweight title by a 9th round technical knockout win over Virgil Hill on 23 February 2002. Following three defenses with wins over Dale Brown, Alexander Gurov and Virgil Hill again, he added the WBC cruiserweight crown to his collection on 2 April 2005, by way of unanimous decision over Wayne Braithwaite.

However, Mormeck lost his WBA and WBC cruiserweight titles to O'Neil Bell after being knocked out in the 10th round. This bout, on 7 January 2006, was for the undisputed (WBA/WBC/IBF) cruiserweight championship. In their rematch, Mormeck regained the WBA and WBC belts back from Bell (Bell lost the IBF title over a dispute from the organization) by unanimous decision on 17 March 2007.

In the first defense of his second title reign, Mormeck again lost his WBA and WBC titles as he was bested by mandatory challenger and knockout specialist David Haye on 10 November 2007. Mormeck was dropped heavily in the 7th round after being hit by a strong right from Haye. Although Mormeck rose up just in time, the referee realized that he was dazed and in no condition to go on, which caused the contest to be stopped and Haye winning the fight by knockout.

On 17 December 2009, Mormeck made his return to the ring after a two-year layoff, fighting for the first time as a heavyweight, against Vinny Maddalone. Mormeck outpointed the veteran heavyweight over 8 rounds.^[2]

Mormeck fought tough Uzbek heavyweight and WBA#7 Timur Ibragimov (30-3-1, 16 KO) on 2 December 2010, at Halle Carpentier, Paris. Mormeck started slowly but dominated the middle rounds to win a split decision (116-112, 116-111, 113-115).

In October 2011, Mormeck signed to fight unified Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko on 10 December 2011 at Esprit Arena, Dusseldorf, Germany.^[3] In this fight, Mormeck will be attempting to be only the third cruiserweight champion to win a world title at Heavyweight, after Evander Holyfield and David Haye.

Trivia

• Before his first encounter with O'Neil Bell, Mormeck had no nickname, so he asked his fans to come up with one. He did not know that the fans had selected the moniker "The Marksman" until it was announced at the fight.^[4]

• Mormeck made one appearance in a French television talk-show called "Tout le monde en parle" to raise his mainstream profile.^[5]

References

1. ^ "Profile: Jean-Marc Mormeck". Eastboxing.com. http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=5546&more=1. Retrieved 2008-02-15. 
2. ^ Mark Vester (December 17, 2009). "Jean Marc Mormeck Decisions Vinny Maddalone in Eight". BoxingScene.com. http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=24190. Retrieved 2009-12-18. 
3. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/oct/06/wladimir-klitschko-jean-marc-mormeck?newsfeed=true
4. ^ Thomas Gerbasi (2006-01-07). "Bell v. Mormeck". ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2284222. Retrieved 2009-09-03. 
5. ^ "Jean-Marc Mormeck". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1909760/. Retrieved 2008-02-21. 

External links

• Professional boxing record for Jean-Marc Mormeck from BoxRec
• Jean-Marc Mormeck's Boxrec Encyclopedia
• Jean-Marc Mormeck's Official Website

Sporting positions
Preceded by Virgil Hill	WBA cruiserweight Champion 23 February 2002 – 2 April 2005 Promoted	Succeeded by Virgil Hill as Regular champion
New title	WBA cruiserweight super champion 2 April 2005 – 7 January 2006	Succeeded by O'Neil Bell
Preceded by Wayne Braithwaite	WBC cruiserweight champion 2 April 2005 – 7 January 2006
Preceded by O'Neil Bell	WBA cruiserweight super champion WBC cruiserweight champion The Ring Cruiserweight Champion 17 March 2007 – 10 November 2007	Succeeded by David Haye

Persondata
Name	Mormeck, Jean-Marc
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Short description
Date of birth	3 June 1972
Place of birth	Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
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