Name: Mark Breland
Two-Time WBA Welterweight Champion
- 5-Time New York City Welterweight Golden Gloves Champion (1980-84).
- 1981 United States Amateur welterweight competition, lost to Darryl Anthony on points. This would be Breland's only loss as an amateur.
- 1981 won Intercity Golden Gloves in the welterweight divison, stopped Efrain Bennett in the first.
- 1982 United States Amateur welterweight champion.
- 1982 World Amateur welterweight champion.
- 1983 United States Amateur welterweight champion.
- Olympic Welterweight Gold Medalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
- Defeated Lloyd Honeyghan (TKO 3).
- Defeated Harold Volbrecht (TKO 7).
- Deafeated Juan Roldan (W 10).
- Defeated Rafael Pineda (TKO 5).
- Pro Record: won 35 (KO 25) + lost 3 (KO 3) + drawn 1 = 39.
- http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=000449&cat=boxer
Favorite Book: "Mr. Untouchable by Leroy "Nicky" Barnes"
"Yeah, this is a great book. It's about the New York City drug trade--how is was done, when heroin was king of New York--before crack cocaine. I was boxing in Brooklyn during the time of the events in this book and I knew some people who ran in the same circles as Nicky Barnes. Barnes could have been the Ceo of a Fortune 500 company with his business sense, but he went down the wrong road and it cost him 30 years of his life. It was interesting to read this book and hear it straight from the inside--from people who knew the true, behind-the-scenes-story about how this guy finally fell flat on his face. Yeah, I would highly recommend this book." |
