By Boxing Bob Newman

Former IBF Light Heavyweight champion William served notice to the light heavyweight division that there was a new sheriff in town. Almost as quickly he was knocked off his mantle, and had a spotty record the remaining ten years thereafter in boxing. Guthrie took time to talk to Fightnews.com® about his checkered past, from the mean streets of St. Louis, to his climb up the ranks in boxing which was interrupted for three years by a stint in prison and life after he left the squared circle for good in 2007.