Career
He is best known for handing Roger Mayweather his first defeat—a first-round knockout in just 98 seconds—earning him the WBA super featherweight title. Lockridge started boxing as an amateur out of the Tacoma Boys Club. Being one of four world champions to originate from Tacoma (including Freddie Steele, Leo Randolph and Johnny Bumphus), his highlights as an amateur include:
1978 National Golden Gloves Runner Up in Bantamweight Class
1978 Runner Up in National Amateur Athletic Union Championships in Bantamweight Class, losing to Jackie Beard in Biloxi, Mississippi
Defeated in the quarter-finals of the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia by Fazlija Šaćirović (2-3)
Foreign the past two decades, Lockridge has suffered drug problems.
He became homeless and suffered a stroke that forced him to walk with a cane.
This spawned the internet meme "Best Cry Ever". In interviews, he has expressed a desire to be drug-free, stating that he had never been this clean, even in his fighting days.
"I feel so good today that if I hadn"t suffered the stroke I would go for a title shot," he stated. He is also interested in becoming a boxing trainer.