WBA heavyweight champion Trevor Bryan (22-0, 15 KOs) scored a harder than expected twelve round split decision against game WBA #13 Jonathan Guidry (17-1-2, 10 KOs) on Saturday night at the W.D. Packard Music Hall in Warren, Ohio. The much larger Bryan pressed the action and Guidry often gave ground, but there were good exchanges throughout the fight. Bryan finally dropped Guidry in the final seconds of the bout. Scores were 118-109, 116-111 Bryan, 115-112 Guidry.
“Trevor Bryan is here to stay,” said Bryan. “I showed that tonight. I am only going to get better and keep improving my skills. I worked until the final bell. I am taking my talents overseas. I am going to make those fights against the top three, which is Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, and Oleksandr Usyk. I deserve those fights. This is a steppingstone for me. Shout out to Jonathan Guidry. He was a tough opponent.”
Guidry stated, “It was a close fight. We only trained for four weeks for this fight. I want another shot at it. If I get in a little bit better shape, I’ll put on a better show. It was heartbreaking. If I had a little bit more gas in the tank, I could have gotten him. The last round he caught me in my neck. I feel really good. I wasn’t supposed to make it this far.”
Promoter Don King added, “That was a fantastic fight. Jonathan Guidry put on a tremendous fight, and the heavyweight champion got out by the skin of his teeth. I don’t know why Trevor (Bryan) wasn’t throwing his right hand as much as he could have. The whole card has been spectacular. I am just as proud as I can be.”
118-109. No. No chance of THAT judge being fixed or anything…
Good point. Don King getting desperate in his old age to make a few more dollars by keeping Bryan in the mix. In other words, his poorly constructed financial investment is clinging onto a cheaply made title. Just my opinion. Kinda like Jerry Springer in comparison; it’s all about crazy entertainment, right?
Do some situps Trevor Bryan
I watched the fight uploaded online and yes, Bryan’s lack of head movement, soft body, arm punching with lack of commitment from the body, and weak defense will simply get himself KO’d by a legit fighter. Don King simply clinging to Bryan as an anemic checkbook deposit for himself since nobody will hardly sign-on to Don as a promoter anymore. What a joke!
Yes Trev, about 500 a day would be just the ticket!
Take away that knockdown and you have a draw. And the WBA should be absolutely ****ing ashamed that they sanctioned this as a “World” heavyweight championship fight.
Fixed judges. A knockdown after the bell on the 12th round. Might as well have had Don King beat Guidry across the back with a damned folding chair.
Knockdown wasn’t after the bell and it didn’t affect the decision
Of course it didn’t affect the decision. The decision was fixed before they even stepped in the damned ring.
People , just always has something to complain about . If it was a fight that was 100 . They would still have shit bad to say . !!!!
Let’s hope that King doesn’t skim Guidry’s paycheck for this fight at least
Folding chair indeed! Boxing is like wrestling now with pre-planned winners and every regional franchise having its own “world champion”.
Boxing has been crooked for a very long time, but it just gets worse. They should make them label it “sports-entertainment”, like wrestling.
Mancini said won of the great fights he has seen in a long time
Mancini’s expert commentary is “Oh. Oh! OH! OH!! OH!!!”
@Packy He was screaming “OH!!!” after a series of missed punches. Also heard Mancini saying what a great fight it was. Too funny.
Mancini was paid to be an actor not a commentator. 🙂
Had Guidry winning until the 12th, draw at best.
Guidry def ripped off.
Am I missing something… How is this guy the WBA Heavyweight Champ?
Don King’s last hope to make any checkbook deposits as a promoter. Title was constructed in sympathy and praise for Don King’s retirement gift from the WBA :).
Well, you see, Boon, several years ago, the WBA decided it didn’t necessarily like having its champions unified with other belts as it made it more difficult to order mandatories for its ranked fighters. So they created something called the “super” belt.
If you were a WBA champion and won a unification fight, they designated you the Super champion for your weight class and declared the “regular” title vacant, setting up eliminators to then crown a “regular” champion and ultimately get opportunities for double the sanctioning fees in each weight division.
As expected, the regular belt became a secondary trinket, exchanged by a second tier or up and coming group of fighters.
It is now also the case that the WBA recognizes a non-unified Super Champion and a regular Champion in the same division, which is even more ridiculous.
The WBA is undergoing a program of eliminating its excess belts to clean up the mess it created.
But is anyone clamoring for fights such as Canelo v. the 6-0 WBA regular 168 champion David Morrell? Or the Usyk versus Joshua rematch winner versus Trevor Bryan?
Lol, Why? Don’t you think he’d beat Usyk, or Fury too? Ha ha ha ha ha!
The rancid smell of Don King is in the air again!
Don King is his Fairy Godfather.
Congratulations to Daniel DuBois. You are about to be champion.
Remember I said Bryan would give Dubois trouble? I take it back. Tonight’s version of Trevor Bryan looked like 2018 Trevor Bryan’s Dad. The word “Dream” on the front of his waistband was pointing straight at the ground. Congrats to Guidry though. His first time going past 8, and he acquitted himself very well, all things considered. Amazing that they went out of their way to find a safe opponent for Bryan, and came up with boxrec-ranked #256 Jonathan Guidry, and Bryan only manages a split decision.
Dubois KOs Bryan inside of 3. Guidry had heart, and a little bit of talent, but he was a part-time fighter who works on a shrimp boat. And he damn near beat Bryan. Any top 20 heavyweight beats Bryan EASY.
Don King should now match his very own “World Heavyweight Champ” Trevor Bryan versus Jake Paul…
Yep USF. DD may not be the next big thing in the heavyweight division, but he’s plenty good enough to beat that guy that fought tonight. Bryan needs to lose about 25-30 lbs, I don’t expect him to, and if he has the opportunity, maybe get another fight in there before DuBois, but I don’t expect him to do that either.
And you’re absolutely right: Full credit to Guidry, hopefully he didn’t sign some contract with Don King and now he can go forward and make some good money, he deserves it. And if you look at his ranking now, losing to Bryan has taken him up to #82 in the world. Good for him
Damn. How often do you see anyone jump 174 spots up in one fight? Imagine if he’d actually gotten the decision…
The question now is whether or not Fres Oquendo now take his case for a shot back up. I was certain he’d do it if Guidry had won, but he may’ve seen this fight and said there’s no way in hell Bryan would actually train for a fight against him. Could a 49 year old Oquendo beat a potentially 300lb Trevor Bryan in early 2023?
Fres Oquendo is still very active in the gym and was present at the Packard Music arena in disguise.
Or BI-I-I-I-IG George Foreman at 73 Years old to take Bryan’s “belt”?
Hilarious
Trevor Bryan is absolute GARBAGE!!! What a total fat slob clown!! He got picked apart all night, NO WAY he won that fight. Don King clearly fixed the fight. What a joke.
Seriously, you could make a scale model of Trevor Bryan with a potato and four toothpicks. This guy is a professional athlete? In Europe, he’d lose 8 of his first 10 fights and already be retired. The fact he’s where he is shows why the US is woefully behind Europe in heavyweight boxing. Any of Europe’s 10 best best heavyweights would stop him early and violently. Even Derek Chisora, considered a gatekeeper in Europe, would stop this guy quickly.
I’m not surprised by this result as the lineal heavyweight champion of the world and p4p#5 on my list Trevor Bryan, underestimated the p4p #10
on my list Jonathan Guidry and #5 ranked heavyweight in the world, by coming in at 276 lbs
for this fight. As great as Bryan is, a top 10 ATG
at heavyweight, a young heavy super talent like Guidry is not somebody you play with. The fight definitely wasn’t a split decision and I thought Bryan won convincingly, but Guidry was too game and showed up because Bryan did not train for this level. If Bryan trains like that against the other contenders in the heavyweight division such as Fury, Usyk and AJ, there is a slight chance he may only get another split decision. Now, if the Trevor Bryan who showed up against Stiverne is in the ring again, then he slaughters everyone at heavyweight. It’s just that version of Bryan didn’t show up tonight. I’m very disappointed.
LoL!! I think I heard the announcers tonight compare Bryan’s jab to that of Larry Holmes, which of course is an insult to the Impervious Pulverizer, Trevor Bryan.
Um please tell me you are kidding-Bryan is barely a top 20 guy whether he trains or not
I’m sure it’s a Piss take
Bryan needs to work on his conditioning. I don’t know why these heavyweights are afraid of road work and serious training like they do in the lighter weights. They should come in the ring ripped from intense training and preparation, not looking as if they survived off a diet of fatback, bacon, cheeseburgers, marshmallows, and beer. Even Fury looks like that. I respect all fighters, but it appears as if we’re still in that dead zone, waiting for the next Tyson, Ali, Marciano, Louis, or Dempsey to show up, really clean out the division, raise the level of standard to what it was in previous eras, and again show us true heavyweight greatness. It’s not happening now with any in this current crop of heavyweights.
Just think, we were just shy of Jonathan Guidry being crowned the WBA Heavweight Champion of the World! Wouldn’t that have been fun!
Yes, ever so true! It’s a circus!
Instead, we just have Trevor Bryan, the WBA Overweight Champion of the World.
Yes, but at least Trevor Bryan’s name is somewhat reminiscent of another iconic heavyweight champion, the late great Trevor Berbick!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is why all the real HW prospects are in Europe and no more in the US…
Another propped up alphabet fake champion that has zero claims to being a legit champion of anything. Can you imagine what Fury-Usyk-Wilder-Joshua would do to Bryan?
Fury, Joshua, and Wilder drop him inside 2 rounds. Usyk may take longer, but would beat him stupid until the fight was stopped. I don’t think Bryan could even compete with the younger crop like Hrgovic, Makhmudov, Anderson, etc. Those guys are legit monsters and sooooo much stronger than Bryan. Even the fat little sausage Andy Ruiz probably overwhelms Bryan with a volume of punches. I don’t think any guy in the top 20 would struggle to beat him.
Was embarrassing to watch that fight and call it a world title fight
Hopefully Gator Guidry can quit his job and make some good money boxing now. Good effort for just 4 weeks of training.
I’m curious what his job is?
Attention Bryan, fight anybody in the top 5 or 10 first. Lol
Don King is lining up Fres Oquendo next for Trevor. Great
Manuel Charr is the other guy that mysteriously hovers close to the WBA title for God Only Knows what reason. Charr, despite being old, past his prime, and never that great to begin with, would still beat this guy. He’d show up in shape and slowly beat Bryan up.
I hate to say it…..that’s an even money fight.
OK, I am a legit boxing fan. But I did not know this guy was WBA Heavyweight Champ. I wonder if he made $42 million for the fight.
This is Don King promoting him. He’s lucky if he got $42 and a bus ride out of the Youngstown Greyhound station.
That makes sense as only us casuals follow Bryan and call him champ.
That fight was horrendous. Tyson could win the WBA belt lol
It’s good to hear from Don King, he made boxing exciting when he was the man of boxing. I know he was accused of doing a lot of crooked shit. But we need someone with his charisma to bring back boxing to the top of sports. Only Mr Ali had more charisma.
Can somebody tell me what media station this fight was on? I did not hear about it taking place.Thank you.
Saw this trash on PPV on fire stick. I’ve seen better tough man fights
Chris:
What app did you use on your Fire Stick to watch this fight?
– I have Kodi and Live Sports and neither had this card.
– Take care.
There are plenty of bootleg sites that show streams of fights for free. You have to navigate their pop-ups and other BS advertising, but most work fine. Just do a search for bootleg sports streams and you’ll find several.
No, you don’t deserve a title shot. Your a fake as hell paper champ.
Trevor Bryan better stay away from the top 3 heavyweights and fight his mandatory Dubois.
The problem he wont and just wants an early retirement lottery.
Daniel Dubois would KO Bryan inside 4 rounds, but we will see Don King keep Bryan well away from Dubois.
Bryan needs to stay away from Top 3??? Top 30, there is no way he should be considered a world champion this isn’t good. I could name 20 Heavyweights he wouldn’t last 3 rounds with. This is what makes boxing look bad and this is a major title.
You know how I know Trevor Bryan isn’t a real, actual champion?
Because champions don’t call out opponents. They are the ones who are called out.
Trevor Bryan saying he’s ready for/deserves fights against Fury, Joshua and Usyk is comedy! This dude barely got past a nobody that only had 4 weeks of training.