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On twelve May perhaps 2000, Maccarinelli endured his initial defeat in the fingers of southpaw Lee Swaby. Swaby, from Lincoln, England, despatched Maccarinelli down using a crushing ideal hand, knocking Maccarinelli down from the 3rd round. Maccarinelli never ever took the rematch versus Swaby.
On 28 June 2003, Maccarinelli, generally known as "the massive Mac" gained the vacant WBU cruiserweight title when he defeated Bruce Scott by fourth-spherical TKO.[one] He made 7 effective defences of his WBU title right before vacating.
WBO cruiserweight winner[edit]
On 8 July 2006, Maccarinelli fought versus former Planet Boxing Council (WBC) cruiserweight champion Marcelo Fabian Domínguez for the WBO interim cruiserweight title. Maccarinelli gained the title which has a ninth-round TKO.[1] The pure progression was a title battle against the then WBO title holder, Johnny Nelson. On account of a number of injuries to Nelson this matchup by no means transpired, and on 22 September 2006 he announced his retirement, mechanically relinquishing the belt and permitting Maccarinelli to get promoted to total champion position.[2]
Title defences[edit]
On 14 October 2006 Maccarinelli made his initially defence of the WBO title, stopping previous opponent Mark Hobson in the 1st spherical inside a struggle that was widely envisioned to last the space. This was followed by Yet another first round acquire above Bobby Gunn on seven April 2007 for the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. The Gunn fight was stopped with just :25 seconds remaining in the first round by referee Mark Nelson, Though Gunn wasn't down and only experienced a little Slice. It was widely and erroneously noted that Maccarinelli experienced broken Bobby Gunn's nose, but it was a small Reduce on the bridge from the nose that triggered the bleeding. Gunn's nose was not damaged and most observers at ringside believed the combat was stopped prematurely.
On 21 July 2007 Maccarinelli defended his WBO cruiserweight championship in opposition to former WBC champ Wayne Braithwaite and received by unanimous selection, right after dominating the match. On three November 2007 Maccarinelli properly defended his WBO cruiserweight title towards Mohamed Azzaoui successful by TKO from the 4th Spherical.
'Bombs Away' and lack of title[edit]
Maccarinelli's subsequent struggle was an all-British unification combat versus the WBA/WBC winner David Haye. The struggle enzo maccarinelli passed off on eight March 2008 at the O2 Arena, London and was A great deal hyped inside the months running up into the event, getting provided the tagline "bombs away" (referring towards the significant KO percentages and punching electricity both Gentlemen boasted). Maccarinelli missing the combat and his WBO belt when he was knocked out within the 2nd round. A correct hand by Haye knocked Maccarinelli down to the end on the round and Whilst he was in the position to get back again up it was on unsteady legs plus the referee stepped in to prevent the fight.[3]
Following the struggle Haye introduced that he will be relocating up to your heavyweight division with quick outcome and would for that reason be vacating his freshly won belts. For this reason Maccarinelli acquired a direct opportunity to reclaim his WBO belt inside a matchup in opposition to undefeated American Jonathon Banks to the now vacant championship, but as a result of injuries Financial institutions was compelled to tug out. Following several replacements ended up not able to battle, Maccarinelli in its place stepped as many as heavyweight to facial area Matthew Ellis. Maccarinelli won following a 2nd-round KO in what was his debut at the upper fat.[4] After the struggle Frank Warren declared that Maccarinelli would confront Financial institutions in a re-scheduled bout for your WBO belt during February 2009.
Again the Banking institutions combat proved to become a non-starter (Banking companies opted for making an finally unsuccessful make an effort to earn the IBF cruiserweight title versus Tomasz Adamek) and instead Maccarinelli's upcoming fight was in opposition to the American-based Londoner Ola Afolabi for the "interim" WBO title. The battle came about on 14 March at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester, within the undercard on the Amir Khan vs Marco Antonio Barrera bout. Maccarinelli was favoured by most observers to get, nonetheless factors did not go as envisioned as Maccarinelli struggled from the early r