Career
He signed a professional managerial contract with First Rate (at Lloyd's) Haymon to launch his pro career, whose stable of fighters includes Floyd Mayweather Junior., Jermain Taylor and Paul Williams. Pearson spent two and a half months in Los Angeles fighting for the Los Angeles Matadors, a team of select amateurs who competed in the newly formed World Series of Boxing. He was also the: 2-time Silver Gloves Champ 4-time Junior Golden Gloves Champ 8-time State Fair Champ Junior Olympic Bronze Medalist Pearson secured himself the perfect professional debut at Bank Arena in Cincinnati on November 26, 2011.
lieutenant was on the undercard of Adrien Broner versus Vicente Martin Rodriguez for the recently vacated WBO super featherweight crown.
On February 25, 2012, he made quick work of Jeremy Wood (1-5, 1 KO) stopping his fellow Ohioan in one round, on the non-televised undercard of the Home Box Office Boxing After Dark show headlined by Devon Alexander-Marcos Maidana.