Undefeated Baltimore, MD super middleweight Lorenzo "Truck" Simpson is out of a potentially toxic situation. Simpson (8-0, five KO's) is off of a card that was scheduled for Saturday, August 29th at the Mississippi Coast Convention Center in Biloxi, MS.
According to boxing media personality Clare Burke, the card itself has been canceled in Mississippi and moved to Iowa because the promoter of the card, Bigger Than Life Entertainment, still owes fees related to their last card on July 11 at the Mississippi Coast Convention Center, a nationally-televised (CBS Sports Network) card Simpson fought on and scored a first-round TKO over Alex Sandro Duarte. Burke is reporting that many of the boxers did not get paid on the card and the promoters did not pay venue or matchmaker booking fees.
The story gets a little crazier because the card is scheduled to be held in Davenport, IA, the hometown of former two-division world champion Michael Nunn, who fights for the first time since January of 2002. Nunn was released from prison in 2019 after serving a long sentence for drug trafficking. Nunn, who is now 57 years old, is actually scheduled to be on this card against Samuel Clarkson in a six-round bout.
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