3 Maurice Hope Greatest Knockouts

3 Maurice Hope Greatest Knockouts Please support my channel. It can buy me another cup of coffee :) Maurice Hope (born 6 December 1951) is a British former boxer, who was world junior middleweight champion. Born in Antigua, he grew up in Hackney, London. He represented Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Maurice Hope was born in St. John’s, Antigua, and moved at a very young age to the UK. Hope’s aptitude towards boxing was evident early in childhood; he began to train as a very young boy. Hope went on to box at the 1972 Summer Olympics, where he would lose to German boxer János Kajdi in the quarter finals. Hope made his professional debut on 18 June 1973, defeating John Smith by decision in eight rounds at Nottingham. On Hope’s second fight, held on 25 September of that year, he scored his first knockout win, a victory in three rounds over Len Gibbs in Shoreditch. Hope won his first four professional fights. On 21 November, he suffered his first defeat, being beaten by Mickey Flynn over eight rounds by decision. After that loss, Hope went on to win five fights in a row, four by knockout, before winning his first regional belt, when he beat Larry Paul, 5 November 1974, by a knockout in round eight of a fifteen-round bout, at Wolverhampton, to win the British Jr. Middleweight title. #MauriceHopeknockouts #bestofMauriceHope #MauriceHopeHighlights #MauriceHope