18-0 Heavyweight Mike Balogun Exposes Son of Tommy Morrison in First Round TKO
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
New York, NY (December 4th, 2021)– Undefeated heavyweight prospect Mike Balogun, 18-0 with 14 knockouts, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, a former NFL linebacker, exposed Trey Lippe Morrison, now 18-1 with 17 knockouts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, a boxing heavyweight son of the late former WBO World Heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison.
It took Balogun, a 38-year-old southpaw, only 2:41 of the first round, all of 241 seconds, to expose an overweight out-of-shape Lippe, who weighed 236 ½ pounds, his worst weight in six years. Balogun, who played for the Oklahoma Sooners, Buffalo Bills, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in his football travels, decked Lippe backwards with a pinpoint straight left hand at 1:55 of the first round.
At around 2:30 of the first round, Balogun landed a left which sent Lippe down to his knees, who did not touch the canvas but struggled back up. A Balogun left hand snapped Lippe’s head back on the ropes, forcing referee Eddie Claudio to score a knockdown after the sequence of rapid punches. Lippe took the standing eight count, nodded he could continue but staggered towards the referee, who then waived the contest off.
At age 38, Balogun is not the next Tyson Fury or Deontay Wilder, but he certainly has proved himself a better boxing ex-football player than Ed “Too Tall’ Jones or Mark Gastineau, for what the comparison is worth.
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