Career
Nicknamed "The Knock-Out King", Bailey is widely considered to be one of the sport"s hardest punchers. He fought Diosbelys Hurtado for the vacant WBA Light Welterweight title but lost courtesy of a KO in the 7th round. In 2003, he challenged DeMarcus Corley for the WBO Light Welterweight Title but lost a decision.
In 2004, he fought Miguel Angel Cotto for the WBO Light Welterweight Title, losing by TKO in the 6th round.
The fight was stopped on cuts. In 2006, Bailey defeated Lenin Arroyo, Santos Pakau, Juan Polo Perez and Russell Stoner Jones to get the right to fight Shawn Gallegos for the International Business Alliance Intercontinental Light Welterweight title.
In 2007, he beat Harrison Cuello by KO in the 2nd round. He then fought Herman Ngoudjo and lost by a split decision over 12 rounds in an IBF eliminator bout.
In the fight Bailey knocked down Juan Urango in the 6th round, the first time Urango had been knocked down.
Bailey tired late in the fight and in the 11th round his corner threw in the towel after Urango had begun dominating the fight. Moving up to welterweight
After the loss to Urango, Bailey moved up to 147 pounds and fought Germaine Sanders, whom Bailey knocked down three times before winning an 8 round decision. On March 19, 2010 Bailey fought an IBF title eliminator against Sugar Jackson.
Bailey knocked out Bonsu in 90 seconds of the 1st round.
Instead of fighting the IBF Title against January Zaveck, he fought Said Ouali on December 10, 2010 in Antwerp, Belgium, with the fight resulting in a second round no-contest when Ouali was thrown out of the ring by Bailey and the fight could not continue. Bailey is currently (43-7-0 with 37 KO"s) in 50 bouts.
His emotional response in his post fight interview drew cheers from the crowd. Bailey lost his IBF welterweight title against Devon Alexander as a main event on Showtime Championship Boxing.
