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Monday, January 23, 2012
Local athlete’s message: “I’m going to beat it out of you”
“There is no lying in boxing. Either you’re going to tell on yourself or I’m going to beat it out of you. Either way, at the end of the night THE WORLD IS GOING TO KNOW THE TRUTH.”
That’s the message on the slick new poster being used to market the young pro boxing career of charismatic Trotwood junior middleweight Chris Pearson. The poster will soon be available here in Dayton.
After more than 100 amateur fights and some prestigious national titles, the 21-year-old Pearson turned pro last November. He’s 2-0 and fights again Feb. 25 in St. Louis as part of an HBO-televised “Boxing After Dark” card. His opponent in the six-round, 154-pound fight is yet to be named. The headliner that night is unbeaten Cincinnati junior lightweight Adrien Broner.
Pearson and Broner are both in the boxing stable of Cleveland-raised, Harvard-educated manager Al Haymon, whose most famous fistic clients - Floyd Mayweather Jr., Andre Berto, Jermain Taylor and others - are only overshadowed by the musicians and entertainers he has promoted.
Pearson spent part of the past week in New Jersey meeting with Adidas and Under Armour officials who may sponsor him. A former Trotwood-Madison High basketball player, he returned to town in time to see his alma mater take on - and lose - to Dunbar High, Sunday, at UD Arena. Today he is scheduled to return to Northern Michigan University, where he had been working toward his degree and still trains at the U.S. Olympic Education Center gym there.
There is talk that down the way he will be partnering in a sports venture here with Brandon McKinney, the veteran Baltimore Ravens nose tackle, who attended Trotwood Madison before transferring to Chaminade Julienne.
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