Courtney Burton is one of the most popular and richest Boxer who was born on June 28, 1978 in Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States. Former boxer of the lightweight and welterweight division who was famous for fighting efficiently orthodox and southpaw, changing stances throughout an event to disorient his opponent.
After beating out Angel Manfredy in 2003, He vowed to challenge Floyd Mayweather Jr. to fight, but the fight was never held.
Burton was a superb amateur boxer, winning the Silver Gloves competition three times, the Junior Olympics back to back (in 1993 at 139 lbs. and 1994 at 147 lbs.), he was a two time International World Champion, and in 1994 he won the 156 lbs. title and was voted the “Outstanding Boxer of the Event” at the World Championships in Germany. Burton earned a spot on the famous 1996 Olympic boxing team but suddenly declined participating in the 1996 Olympics. He finished his amateur career with a record of (87-4) although he states he had a lot more fights as an amateur and had a career record of (139-16).
Courtney Burton began his professional career in 1996 against Sam Mahmoud in Waukegan, Illinois, Burton won by majority decision. After his debut fight Burton would quit boxing for a while due to his longtime trainer and father-figure Napoleon Lark convincing Burton to go back to school and receive his G.E.D., after Burton dropped out of high school when he was 16 (in which at the time he had quit boxing too.) Burton agreed to do so and completed his schooling and returned to the ring 3 years later in 1999 and faced Nelson Hernandez at the Civic Center in La Porte, Indiana, Burton won by unanimous decision.
Its cousin Marcellus Brown was seven feet tall heavyweight champion.
