Ray Austin (boxer)

For other uses, see Ray Austin (disambiguation).

Ray Austin
Born	(1970-10-31) October 31, 1970 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality	American
Other names	The Rainman
Statistics
Weight(s)	Heavyweight
Height	6 ft 6 in (198 cm)
Reach	80 in (203 cm)
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	41
Wins	29
Wins by KO	18
Losses	8
Draws	4

Ray Austin (born October 31, 1970) is an American professional boxer who has challenged once for a world heavyweight title.

Professional career

Austin has drawn with other notable heavyweights Lance Whitaker, Larry Donald, and Sultan Ibragimov. Austin is also known for his TKO victory over Jo el Scott, the final professional bout for Scott.

In 2007, Austin was promoted to the International Boxing Federation's mandatory challenger due to his draw with Sultan Ibragimov. He challenged Wladimir Klitschko on March 10, 2007, and lost at 1:23 in the second round by technical knockout.

Austin also competed in Cedric Kushner's Thunderbox Heavyweight Tournament, "Fistful of Dollars", but lost.

Austin most recently defeated Domonic Jenkins, Andrew Golota and Julius Long.

In his most recent fight in a WBC Title Eliminator on October 31, 2009, against DaVarryl Williamson who he defeated by fourth round technical knockout after knocking him down as Williamson got up the referee stops the fight.

He was then scheduled to fight Mariusz Wach on September 22, 2012 in what was supposed to be a tune-up fight for Wach before Wach fought Wladimir Klitschko, but Wach pulled out of the fight, stating that he could not risk losing the fight, because it would result in him losing his opportunity to fight Klitschko and will now fight Klitschko directly on November 10, 2012.

External links

• Boxing record for Ray Austin from BoxRec (registration required)