Shannon Briggs confronts Wladimir in restaurant, suffers cut

wladimir76By Allan Fox: Earlier today former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs (55-6-1, 48 KOs) interrupted IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (62-3, 52 KOs) while he was eating at a restaurant in Hollywood, Florida.
Briggs said “I told you champ, wherever you go I go. What you do I do, champ. Let’s fight, champ. What you do I do. What you eat I eat. This is my [expletive], yeah. I told you everything you do I do. Thanks, champ.”

Briggs sat down across from Wladimir and snatched his food and started eating from it. Wladimir then poured what appeared to be a glass of water over the head of Briggs. At that point Briggs knocked the glass out of Wladimir’s hand, causing it to shatter. Briggs also knocked all the food from the table lost his footing, causing him to slip to the floor.

Briggs said “You pour water on my head. You poor water on my head.”

Briggs was then grabbed by a burly man and pushed out of the restaurant. Briggs lost one of his shoes while being escorted out of the restaurant. According to Fightnews.com, Briggs suffered a cut hand and foot. He later had stitches for the cuts.

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Shannon Briggs could face Chagaev for vacant WBA heavyweight title on Sunday

briggs7774By Allan Fox: 42-year-old former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs (55-6-1, 48 KO’s) could be fighting for the vacant WBA heavyweight title belt this Sunday against Ruslan Chagaev (32-2-1, 20 KO’s) after Fres Oquendo reportedly pulled out of the fight with Chagaev, according to Fightnews.com.

The Chagaev-Oquendo fight was scheduled to take place this Sunday at the Ahmat Arena, in Grozny, Russia, but Oquendo pulled out of the fight for some unknown reason.

The people who put together the Chagaev-Oquendo card want it to go ahead, but they need a replacement for Oquendo, and that’s why Briggs was asked.

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Shannon Briggs stops Matthew Greer in 23 seconds

By Allan Fox: 42-year-old former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs (54-6-1, 48 KO’s) needed just 23 seconds to dispatch journeyman Matthew Greer (16-13, 13 KO’s) in the 1st round on Saturday night at the Mountaineer Casino Racetrack and Resort, in Chester, West Virginia, USA. Briggs landed three straight clubbing right hands to the head that put the 37-year-old Greer on the canvas to get the stoppage.

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Briggs caught with pie while entering Wladimir’s weigh-in

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By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs showed up shirtless with a large pie at IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s final weigh-in with Alex Leapai. The security stopped Briggs from entering the facility with the pie. Briggs said he wanted to give the pie to Wladimir, but the security wasn’t going to take any chances with Briggs having a large pie in his hands while watching Wladimir weigh-in. Earlier this week, Briggs threw his t-shirt at Wladimir at the final press conference with Leapai.

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Leapai says he’ll fight Briggs after he takes care of Klitschko

wladimir44465(Picture Credit: KMG/Michael Sterling Eaton) By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs (53-6-1, 47 KO’s) busted up IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s press conference in Germany, and called him out for a fight. Briggs ended up taking his shirt off and throwing it at Wladimir, which missed him and almost hit his opponent Alex Leapai (30-4-3, 24 KO’s). Leapai then said to Briggs,”After this fight, me and you bring it on.”

Briggs had said on his twitter earlier that he was going to fly over to Germany to sit on Wladimir’s press conference, and it was predictable this was going to happen once he made that announcement.

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Shannon Briggs destroys Maurenzo Smith in 1st round knockout

By Jim Dower: 42-year-old former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs (52-6-1, 46 KO’s) made a successful comeback last Friday night with an impressive 1st round knockout win over 36-year-old journeyman Maurenzo Smith (12-9-3, 9 KO’s) at the Double Tree Westshore Hotel, in Tampa, Florida, USA. Briggs landed three hard right hand body shots that sent Smith down on the canvas. He wasn’t able to get up, and the fight was halted at that point. For Smith, it was his 7th defeat in his last 9 fights since 2012.

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Shannon Briggs making a comeback

briggs454By Euan Gilchrist: As I sat down earlier this week to watch Buncies Boxing Hour (which is a low budget TV show screened in the UK on Boxnation), I expected the usual fare of boxing banter, and world boxing news and a recap of the weekends action. I was surprised and delighted when Steve Bunce was joined on the phone by former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs (51-6, 45 KO’s).

With the farcical YouTube video doing the rounds at the moment of Briggs losing his mind and throwing his shoes at an unresponsive Wladimir Klitschko, it’s easy to view him as a clown and to forget that he has fought some of the best heavyweights from the last 50 years in George Foreman, Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko. For that reason alone I think that the man shouldn’t be treated as a joke.

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Shannon Briggs goes off at Wladimir’s training session

briggs6By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs (51-6-1, 45 KO’s) showed up at IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s training session today at the Heavyweight Factory in Hollywood, Florida, and started screaming at Wladimir and challenging him to a fight, according to video at Fightnews.

Briggs then ripped off his shirt and took his shoe off and tossed it at Wladimir, hitting him in the chest while he was sitting down getting his hands wrapped. Wladimir then said “I’m going to make you eat that shoe.”

Briggs said “I train here too. I train here too. My stuff is here. We can do it. What? Make me eat it right now. Make me eat it right now. You better know. Shannon Briggs is back. Wherever you go, I go. Shannon Briggs. Let the world know that Shannon Briggs is back. You aint nothing. You’re fighting bums. I’m outside.

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