Pernell Whitaker is a great American boxer, world lightweight (135 pounds), junior welterweight (140 pounds), welterweight (147 pounds), and junior middleweight (154 pounds) champion in the 1980s and '90s. Whitaker was a left-given boxer who exceeded expectations at the guarded part of the game. He had a stellar novice boxing vocation as a lightweight: he won the U.S. Brilliant Gloves.
Background
Pernell Whitaker (born on January 2, 1964) is an American previous expert boxer and current boxing mentor. He won a silver decoration as a lightweight at the 1982 Amateur World Championships, trailed by gold at the 1983 Pan American Games and 1984 Olympics. In his expert profession, Whitaker won world titles in four distinctive weight divisions. Amid his profession he battled a huge number of title holders, for example, Julio César Chávez, Oscar De La Hoya and Félix Trinidad. For his accomplishments, Whitaker was named the 1989 Fighter of the year by The Ring magazine.
Whitaker is a previous WBA light middleweight champion, WBC welterweight champion, IBF light welterweight champion, WBC/WBA/IBF and NABF lightweight champion, and was proclaimed as one of the main five lightweights ever.
Subsequent to resigning, Whitaker came back to the game as a mentor. Among his prepared boxers are Zab Judah, Dorin Spivey, Joel Julio and Calvin Brock. In 2002, The Ring positioned him tenth in their rundown of "The 100 Greatest Fighters of the Last 80 Years". On December 7, 2006, Whitaker was drafted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, in his first year of qualification.
Whitaker was a "southpaw" (left hand overwhelming) boxer, known for his remarkable guarded abilities and for being a solid counterpuncher. He was not an over-controlling hitter on offense but rather connected a relentless assault while, in the meantime, being to a great degree dangerous and hard to hit with a strong blow.
Whitaker had a broad novice boxing profession, having begun at nine years old. He had 214 novice battles, winning 201, 91 of them by knockouts, however he says that he has had up to 500 novice battles. He lost to two-time Olympic Gold medalist Ángel Herrera Vera at the last of the World Championships 1982 however beat him four different times, outstandingly in the last of the Pan American Games 1983 in Caracas. He delegated his novice vocation with an Olympic Gold Medal in 1984.
Education
There are no information recorded about his schooling and higher studies.
He was been a Fighter “Always” .
Whitaker concedes that, growing up, he was a crude road contender who learned youthful how to wear out the other person. "Two minutes and two seconds," he told Sports Illustrated — that is to what extent most road fighters.
He was trained in boxing by these two Trainers: George Benton and Lou Duva.
Career
Pernell Whitaker is a retired proficient boxer and previous best on the planet. He began his boxing profession at 9 years old. Amid his novice days he had 214 battles, of which he won 201. Approximately somewhat less than half of these triumphs were by knockout. In the last of the 1982 World Championships, he lost to then Olympic gold medalist Angel Herrera , yet figured out how to thrashing him later on in his vocation. In 1984, he won the Olympic Gold Medal. Before long he wandered into expert boxing, picking up his first real triumph over Alfredo Layne in December 1986 and a couple of months after the fact, over World Boxing Association featherweight champion Roger Mayweather in March 1987.
Pernell Whitaker is considered, pound for pound, the best boxer on the planet. A titleholder at four distinctive weight classes, Whitaker has sought after the "pound for pound" assignment with incredible determination and considers it his most vital accomplishment. Referred to in battle hovers as a wily ring craftsman who frequently stumbles his rivals by changing styles and methods from round to round, Whitaker has started new enthusiasm for the welterweight and junior middleweight classes and is among a first class few who acquire million dollar paychecks for battles at those weights. Sports Illustrated reporter Richard Hoffer noticed that the man who calls himself Sweet Pea has stayed "among the [boxing] amusement's lord specialists for 10 years," including that the warrior "may now be judged difficult to beat."
It can be contended that Whitaker has dependably been difficult to beat. An Olympic gold award champ, he has lost just once as an expert, in an extremely disputable choice, and has earned an attract one and only battle—again in the midst of contention. "I prefer not to boast on myself," Whitaker expressed in the New York Times late in 1994, "however I can say I'm the best, pound for pound." Fight fans appear to concur. Administrators at Home Box Office, who offered Whitaker a multimillion dollar contract for four battles, assert that Whitaker is the most famous boxer in America other than the heavyweights; exactly 30 million viewers paid to watch him safeguard his welterweight title in 1994. Some of this notoriety originates from Whitaker's state of mind about the amusement. He calls himself a "performer" and says that he gets a "surge" from outflanking the adversaries who attempt to hit him. "Most contenders don't even knowwhat's transpired," Whitaker remarked in Sports Illustrated. "I've taken something from them—their certainty, their battle arrangement. They can't hit you, the battle is yours. They get reluctant about punching. Before long they begin achieving, simply trusting they're going to hit me. I couldn't care less who I'm battling. I couldn't care less in the event that it's God. In the event that I don't need God to hit me, he's not going to hit me."
Whitaker won his first expert battle, on Nov. 15, 1984, and his next 10 battles before getting a title shot. On March 28, 1987, Whitaker won a 12-round choice (a battle whose result is controlled by judges' scoring) over American Roger Mayweather to take the North American Boxing Federation (NABF) lightweight title. In spite of the fact that he lost a 12-round choice to José Luis Ramírez of Mexico for the World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight title on March 12, 1988, Whitaker returned to win the International Boxing Federation (IBF) lightweight title from American Greg Haugen on Feb. 18, 1989, and he included the WBC title by winning a 12-round choice in a rematch with Ramírez on Aug. 20, 1989. Taking after a few fruitful title barriers, Whitaker thumped out Juan Nazario of Puerto Rico in the first round on Aug. 11, 1990, to win the World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title. The next year, he shielded his lightweight titles three times, every time winning on a 12-round choice.
Whitaker climbed in weight class to challenge the IBF junior welterweight (otherwise called super lightweight) champion, Rafael Pineda of Colombia, against whom he won a 12-round choice on July 18, 1992.
Whitaker climbed in weight class once more, winning the WBC welterweight title with a 12-round choice over American James ("Buddy") McGirt on March 6, 1993. On March 4, 1995, Whitaker by and by climbed in weight class, winning the WBA junior middleweight (otherwise called super welterweight) title with a 12-round choice over Julio Cesar Vasquez of Argentina. Whitaker soon deserted this title for safeguarding his welterweight title, which he at last lost on April 12, 1997, in a 12-round choice to American Oscar de La Hoya. Whitaker next won a 10-round choice over Andrei Pestriaev of Russia on Oct. 17, 1997, be that as it may, after Whitaker tried positive for cocaine promptly taking after the battle, the outcome was changed to a no challenge. Whitaker had one more battle, on Feb. 20, 1999, in which he tested Puerto Rican Felix Trinidad for his IBF welterweight title, yet lost in a 12-round choice. Whitaker completed his expert vocation with 40 wins (17 by knockouts), 4 misfortunes, 1 draw, and 1 no challenge. He was enlisted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2007.
Achievements
Boxing records
Total fights – 46. He has won 40 fights out of 46 and also 17 Wins by KO. He lost 4 matches and 1 draw match. There was 1 match having no contests for him.
Medal records
Men's boxing
• He won Gold medal for United States in Olympic Games for Lightweight category
• Pan American Games - Gold medal – first place in 1983, Caracas for Lightweight category
• World Amateur Championships - 1982 Munich for Lightweight category
Religion
He follows Christianity. There are no records found talking about his religious beliefs, stating clearly that he is not much involved in these.
Politics
From his childhood his interest was only towards boxing and he never had any involvement with politics. n 1984 Whitaker won the chance to represent the United States as a lightweight at the Summer Olympic Games. As he arranged for the Olympics, he fashioned dear kinships with the other American boxers who were likewise in preparing—any semblance of Tyrell Biggs, Evander Holyfield, Mark Breland, and Meldrick Taylor. Whitaker was so mainstream amongst alternate warriors that they named him commander of their boxing group. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he effortlessly won the gold decoration. Scarcely had it been set around his neck before he reported his goal to end up an expert boxer. He has been one from that point onward, failing to have held some other occupation.
Views
World outlook :
"Sweet Pea" turned master in 1984 at Madison Square Garden. In 1987 he vanquished Roger Mayweather for the NABF lightweight title and two battles later included the USBA belt. In 1988 Whitaker tested Jose Luis Ramirez for the WBC lightweight title and lost a questionable choice in his underlying title offer. He won his first big showdown by means of a 12 round choice over Greg Haugen for the IBF lightweight title on February 18, 1989. A measure of reprisal took after with a rematch win over Ramirez in 1989 for the WBC belt. He bound together the title with a first round kayo over WBA titlist Juan Nazario on August 11, 1990.
In the wake of building up strength at lightweight, Whitaker set his sights higher and caught world titles in three extra weight divisions – IBF light welterweight (1992), WBC welterweight (1993-1997) and WBA light middleweight (1995). With splendid hand speed, the subtle southpaw was a cautious wonder who used a stinging right hit and straight left hand to score wins over such considerable enemies as Freddie Pendelton, Anthony Jones, Jorge Paez, Harold Brazier, James "Amigo" McGirt and Hall of Famer Azumah Nelson.
An artist in the ring, Whitaker was named "Contender of the Year" in 1989 and was broadly viewed as boxing's best "pound for pound" warrior amid his title rules. "Sweet Pea" resigned in 2001 subsequent to ordering a 40-4-1, 1NC (17 KOs) proficient record.
Personality
In February 2014, Whitaker stood out as truly newsworthy after he removed his mom, Novella Whitaker, out of the house he acquired for her not long after he turned expert. Obviously, back duties were owed on the house and Pernell said that neither his mom nor his kin, who likewise stayed in the house, were doing anything to help monetarily. Whitaker's legal advisors said that he was not making the same sort of cash as a mentor that he was as a boxer, and expected to auction the home to fulfill the assessment obligation owed. Outside of the Virginia court where the ousting procedures occurred, Whitaker called the decision to support him "a wonderful minute.
Physical Characteristics:
He was a black American whose interest was only towards fighting or boxing since his childhood. He was tall up to 5′ 6″ that is,168cm and his reach was around 69″ (175cm).
Quotes from others about the person
"I feel ashamed tonight that we treated Lennox Lewis the way we did because he gave it all his effort but everytime Don King's involved, you can expect a draw to come from somewhere. Ask Pernell Whitaker about the Julio Cesar Chavez fight...I thought Evander Holyfield gave a very game effort, but you win some and you lose some...tonight I'm upset because Lennox Lewis did not lose and it was not a draw. It's as simple as that."
Roy Jones Jr.
Interests
music
Connections
Pernell wedded Rovanda Anthony on December 21, 1985 in the boxing ring at the Virginia Beach Pavilion Convention Center. The couple later separated. They had four kids together: Dominique, the late Pernell Jr., Dantavious, and Devon. Whitaker likewise had a little girl, Tiara, from an earlier relationship.
WBA light middleweight champion, WBC welterweight champion, IBF light welterweight champion, WBC/WBA/IBF and NABF lightweight champion, and was heralded as one of the top five lightweights of all time.
WBA light middleweight champion, WBC welterweight champion, IBF light welterweight champion, WBC/WBA/IBF and NABF lightweight champion, and was heralded as one of the top five lightweights of all time.
