Curtis Stevens is an everyman hero. Curtis Stevens - an ordinary hero Championship fight with Gennady Golovkin

In September 2004, Stevens made his debut in the professional ring. Over the course of two years, he fought 13 unbeaten fights, which he finished mostly by knockout, and in July 2006 he unexpectedly lost by knockout to the Venezuelan Markom Premiere. In the next fight he took revenge, outboxing the Premier on points.

On July 11, 2009, he knocked out the undefeated Polish boxer, Piotr Wilczewski (22-0) in the third round. IN next fight lost on points to the American, Jesse Brinkley.

He did not enter the ring for two years, and when he returned in 2012, he began to defeat experienced opponents. In August 2013, he knocked out the experienced Mexican boxer Saul Roman in the 1st round.

November 2, 2013 at New York At Madison Square Garden, Stevens lost in the 8th round by technical knockout to the Kazakh boxer, WBA world champion, Gennady GGG Golovkin. In round 2, Golovkin knocked down Stevens deeply, but he was able to get up and continue the fight. In the 4th and 5th rounds, Stevens managed to carry out several successful attacks. In the 8th round, after a total beating, Stevens managed to reach the gong, but the American’s corner decided to remove his boxer from the fight. Stevens lost by refusal to continue the fight.

January 24, 2014 as part of the second secondary weight category, in Atlantic City, he defeated Pole Przemyslaw Majewski by knockout in the 1st round. Curtis knocked down the Pole with a left jab already in the tenth second of the fight. Then he went on the attack and for the second time Przemek found himself on the canvas, after the third knockdown the judge stopped the fight which lasted only 45 seconds.

On April 4, 2014, Curtis Stevens unexpectedly faced desperate resistance from the American Tureano Johnson (14-0), so much so that by the final tenth round of the fight the score was 87-84, 89-82 and 89-82 in favor of the little-known Tureano until that day. Despite Stevens' fame as a most dangerous puncher, Johnson immediately accepted the fight without a shadow of a doubt and began to boldly engage in exchanges with his opponent. To the surprise of the audience, bordering on the pleasure of contemplating the bright spectacle, Tureano interrupted the favorite, and only in the fifth round, having fallen under several heavy hits from Curtis, he was shocked. Based on the course of the fight, Johnson was supposed to take the fight by unanimous decision, but in the final three minutes Stevens managed to shake him with a left hook and continued with a lightning-fast series of blows, the referee instantly stopped the match in favor of Curtis. Enraged by this decision of the third in the ring, the losing team immediately demanded revenge.

On October 1, 2014, Stevens faced former interim world champion, Cameroonian Hassan N'Dame N'Jikam. In the fight for the status of mandatory challenger for the IBF world title, in the second middle weight category, Stevens lost on points, being knocked down in the 8th round. NJikam controlled the course of the fight, and Stevens tried to take the fight only at the end of the round, throwing multiple sweeping blows, but the experienced Cameroonian withstood the pressure of the American and did not repeat the mistake of Tureano Johnson. Curtis Stevens lost on points.

On July 11, 2009, he knocked out the undefeated Polish boxer, Piotr Wilczewski (22-0) in the third round. In the next fight he lost on points to the American, Jesse Brinkley.

He did not enter the ring for two years, and when he returned in 2012, he began to defeat experienced opponents. In August 2013, he knocked out an experienced Mexican boxer, Saul Roman, in the 1st round.

Championship fight with Gennady Golovkin

On November 2, 2013, in New York at Madison Square Garden, Stevens lost in the 8th round by technical knockout to the Kazakh boxer, WBA world champion, Gennady GGG Golovkin. In round 2, Golovkin knocked down Stevens deeply, but he was able to get up and continue the fight. In the 4th and 5th rounds, Stevens managed to carry out several successful attacks. In the 8th round, after a total beating, Stevens managed to reach the gong, but the American’s corner decided to remove his boxer from the fight. Stevens lost by forfeit.

On January 24, 2014, within the second middle weight category, in Atlantic City he defeated Pole Przemyslaw Majewski by knockout in the 1st round. Curtis knocked down the Pole with a left jab already in the tenth second of the fight. Then he went on the attack and for the second time Przemek found himself on the canvas, after the third knockdown the referee stopped the fight, which lasted only 45 seconds. .

Fight with Tureano Johnson

Challenger fight with Hassan N'Jikam

On October 1, 2014, Stevens met former interim world champion, Cameroonian Hassan N'Dame N'Jikam. In the fight for the status of mandatory challenger for the IBF world title, in the second middle weight category, Stevens lost on points, being knocked down in the 8th round. NJikam controlled the course of the fight, and Stevens tried to take the fight only at the end of the round, throwing multiple sweeping blows, but the experienced Cameroonian withstood the pressure of the American and did not repeat the mistake of Tureano Johnson. Curtis Stevens lost on points.

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Excerpt characterizing Stevens, Curtis

Just as the sun and each atom of the ether is a ball, complete in itself and at the same time only an atom of a whole inaccessible to man due to the enormity of the whole, so each personality carries within itself its own goals and, at the same time, carries them in order to serve common goals inaccessible to man. .
A bee sitting on a flower stung a child. And the child is afraid of bees and says that the purpose of a bee is to sting people. The poet admires a bee digging into the calyx of a flower and says that the bee’s goal is to absorb the aroma of flowers. The beekeeper, noticing that the bee collects flower dust and brings it to the hive, says that the bee's goal is to collect honey. Another beekeeper, having studied the life of a swarm more closely, says that the bee collects dust to feed young bees and breed the queen, and that its goal is to procreate. The botanist notices that, by flying with the dust of a dioecious flower onto the pistil, the bee fertilizes it, and the botanist sees the bee’s purpose in this. Another, observing the migration of plants, sees that the bee promotes this migration, and this new observer can say that this is the purpose of the bee. But the final goal of the bee is not exhausted by either one, or the other, or the third goal, which the human mind is able to discover. The higher the human mind rises in the discovery of these goals, the more obvious to it is the inaccessibility of the final goal.
Man can only observe the correspondence between the life of a bee and other phenomena of life. The same goes for the goals of historical figures and peoples.

The wedding of Natasha, who married Bezukhov in 13, was the last happy event in the old Rostov family. That same year, Count Ilya Andreevich died, and, as always happens, with his death the old family fell apart.
Events last year: the fire of Moscow and the flight from it, the death of Prince Andrei and Natasha’s despair, the death of Petya, the grief of the countess - all this, like blow after blow, fell on the head of the old count. He did not seem to understand and felt unable to understand the meaning of all these events and, morally bending his old head, as if he was expecting and asking for new blows that would finish him off. He seemed either frightened and confused, or unnaturally animated and adventurous.
Natasha's wedding occupied him for a while outside. He ordered lunches and dinners and, apparently, wanted to appear cheerful; but his joy was not communicated as before, but, on the contrary, aroused compassion in the people who knew and loved him.
After Pierre and his wife left, he became quiet and began to complain of melancholy. A few days later he fell ill and went to bed. From the first days of his illness, despite the doctors' consolations, he realized that he would not get up. The Countess, without undressing, spent two weeks in a chair at his head. Every time she gave him medicine, he sobbed and silently kissed her hand. On the last day, he sobbed and asked for forgiveness from his wife and in absentia from his son for the ruin of his estate - the main guilt that he felt for himself. Having received communion and special rites, he died quietly, and the next day a crowd of acquaintances who had come to pay their last respects to the deceased filled the Rostovs’ rented apartment. All these acquaintances, who had dined and danced with him so many times, who had laughed at him so many times, now all with the same feeling of inner reproach and tenderness, as if making excuses for someone, said: “Yes, whatever it was, there was a most wonderful Human. You won’t meet such people these days... And who doesn’t have their own weaknesses?..”

Twenty-nine years, gold at the United States National Championships, thirty fights, twenty-six of which ended in victory, nineteen by knockout, and only four in defeat - we are talking about Curtis Stevens.

This simple black boy was born on March 10, 1985 in New York (Brooklyn, an area called Brownsville). This place, by the way, is the birthplace of at least two famous boxers: Shannon Briggs, and - no more, no less - Mike Tyson. The atmosphere there seems to be conducive. As the hero of one film said, “The children here either learn to endure pain or learn to fight; We're tired of being patient." Curtis, however, was an exemplary boy, and directed his strength in the right direction. Instead of aimlessly waving his fists in the street, he chose a very productive path and became an athlete. It all started with football team at school with parallel classes also in boxing. Then, at the age of seventeen, Curtis became the amateur champion at the national light heavyweight bout. He still did not give up football and took an active part in the life of the university team. But in the end, Stevens realized that spreading himself too thin is not good, and it would be worth choosing one thing. And I chose boxing.

Curtis Stevens is a very lucky boxer. The athlete experienced his first serious fight when he was 19 years old. In 2004, he participated in the US National Championship in the middle weight category, where he became a full-fledged winner of the first prize. Some time later, on September 30, Stevens was already performing in the ring along with the upgraded professional athletes. From then on, his brilliant career began. Stevens had trouble until 2006. He received his first defeat completely unexpectedly, in a fight with Venezuelan Marcos Primera. This was his fourteenth fight, before that he was in the lead all the time and for two years showed exclusively knockouts. Marcos turned out to be more serious for him than the others (it is also curious that this was Curtis’s first opponent who was not his compatriot). Marcos beat him in the eighth round. But Curtis corrected the situation in the next meeting with the same enemy.

From then on, he held his own for four more fights, until June 16, 2007, when he entered the ring with Andre Dirrell. Dirrell, medalist Olympic Games 2004, a representative of the second middle weight category, subsequently admitted that this victory was not so easy for him. At that time it was his longest fight - 10 rounds, and he beat Curtis on points.

After this there were two more years of brilliant success and victories. Including a meeting with Peter Vilchevsky on July 11, 2009. And in the very next fight, Jesse Brinkley lost. Apparently, after this Stevens decided that he needed a break. And he went underground for three long years. He did not appear in the ring, improved his health and took care of himself in order to triumphantly return in 2012 and win several victories in a row, in meetings with such serious opponents as Alvin Ayala and Saul Roman.

Experts recognized the fight with Gennady Golovkin, which took place on November 2, 2013 in New York, as one of the most controversial fights of Curtis Stevens, rumors about which continue to this day. In the eighth round, our hero was removed from the fight, despite the fact that he managed to get up after the knockout and steadfastly withstood the beating of his opponent. The result, alas, was a technical knockout. It's funny that the day before, in conversations with journalists about the upcoming fight, Stevens was full of confidence to put the Kazakh boxer on his shoulder. Truly, you should never talk about your innermost expectations in public.