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PROPHET GETS ANOTHER WIN, ANOTHER KO Surging cruiserweight prospect Andre Prophet scored a fifth round technical knockout over David Nall at the Blue Horizon on this day in 1988. The victory raised his promising record to 11-0-1 with 9 KOs. Nall, of Cleveland, lost for the first time in seven bouts. 1,003 paying fans came to see the main event that night - a ten round win by Hugh Kearney over David Taylor. But everyone came away talking about Prophet, who looked like he was destined for very big things. Prophet's manager Scott Kendall fully expected the twenty year old to grow into a heavyweight, and one day take on Mike Tyson. Prophet would be back in the Blue Horizon ring just two weeks later for another KO. However that fight would be his last. On August 13, 1988, Prophet tragically died in a motorcycle accident. |
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| OTHER FIGHT RESULTS ON THIS DATE: | ||||
| 1941 - Lew Tendler W6 Joe Welling at Shibe Park in North Philly | ||||
| 1941 - Bob Montgomery W10 Luther White at Baltimore, MD | ||||
| 1944 - Eddie Giosa W8 Frankie Mills at Atlantic City | ||||
| 1971 - Willie Monroe KO4 Elgie Walters at Houston, TX | ||||
| 1976 - Bobby 'Boogaloo' Watts KO7 Casey Gacic at Philadelphia Convention Hall | ||||
| 1982 - Gene Hatcher TKO7 Jerome Artis at Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth, TX | ||||
| 1983 - Robert Hines W8 Jake Torrance at Ice World in Totowa, NJ | ||||
| 1988 - Hugh Kearney W10 David Taylor at the Blue Horizon in Philadelphia | ||||
| 1988 - Andre Prophet KO5 David Nalls at the Blue Horizon in Philadelphia | ||||
| 1988 - Nate Miller KO2 Lionel Byarm at the Blue Horizon in Philadelphia | ||||
| 1989 - Donald Gwinn W8 Charlie 'Choo Choo' Brown at Parkerburg, WV | ||||
| 2012 - Danny Garcia TKO4 Amir Khan at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas | ||||
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