John Thompson (boxer) John Thompson (boxer) John Thompson (born March 5, 1989) is an American junior middleweight professional boxer. Thompson won the 2015 Boxcino tournament - a tournament featured exclusively on ESPN Friday Night Fights. At the finals of this tournament he also won the interim North American Boxing Association and WBO Inter-Continental junior middleweight titles. The Boxcino win increased Thompson's ranking in the WBO. When the WBO title was stripped from Demetrius Andrade, Liam Smith was to fight Michel Soro for the vacant title. Soro pulled out of the fight for the vacant title so Thompson was awarded the title shot by
Chris Saunders (boxer) the rince since the second defeat to Carruth in April 1999 he returned in December 2001 with a win over David Kirk. After winning his next three fights he beat Marcus Portman via a first round stoppage in April 2004 to take the English welterweight title. He defended the title in October against the unbeaten Michael Jennings, retiring in the fifth round. Saunders career appeared to be over but in 2007 he returned to the ring for his final two fights. Chris Saunders (boxer) Chris Saunders (born 15 August 1969) is a British former boxer who was British welterweight champion