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"Relentless" Lamon Tajuan Brewster (born June 5 1973, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American heavyweight professional boxer, who has won the World Boxing Organization's version of the world heavyweight title. His record as of 28 September 2005 consists of 33 wins (29 by knockout) and 2 defeats (to Clifford Etienne and Charles Shufford, respectively).

On February 2, 2002, Brewster knocked out Nate Jones to win the North American Boxing Organization title; the win made him the mandatory challenger for the WBO champion. In October 2003, WBO Champion Corrie Sanders vacated the title (to accept a match for the higher-profile WBC world Heavyweight Title), setting the stage for Brewster to face highly-regarded former WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko (the younger brother of one-time WBC titleholder Vitali Klitschko).

On April 10, 2004, Brewster knocked out Wladimir Klitschko in the fifth round to win the vacant WBO Heavyweight Championship in Las Vegas. However, some regarded this win as fraudulent because of the fight's controversial circumstances. Right before the match the betting odds that favored Wladimir were dropped from 11:1 to 4:1. After the fight Wladimir was brought to a hospital, where blood samples were taken due to suspicions that Wladimir had been drugged during the fight (results indicated extremely high blood-sugar levels, as predicted by Klitschko's camp). Before they could be analyzed, the blood samples inexplicably disappeared. The charges that Klitschko (who fought exclusively out of Germany at the time) had been doped were never proven.

Brewster's first WBO Title defense was a hotly disputed, split-decision win over the lightly-regarded Kali Meehan. His second defense, on May 21, 2005, was a highly memorable performance: he knocked down Andrew Golota three times in the 1st round. Brewster went on to score a TKO - in just 53 seconds - to retain his title. Lastly, in September 2005, he survived a severe beating by a German-based Kosovar Luan Krasniqi only to KO the latter in the 9th round, while trailing on all cards. This bout was considered controversial by many critics because of some peculiarities from the referee. Towards the end of the 8th round, Brewster knocked Krasniqi down with a left hook, and the latter received the count. However, the referee stopped his count at nine, and allowed Krasniqi to get up and continue the fight. Brewster's corner protested the action to no avail.

After this last defense, Brewster gained significant recognition in the heavyweight world, especially that he flew to fight to Germany, despite fears of local judges being unfavourable of the US boxers. He did it on the 100th birthday of the German national boxing hero Max Schmeling, the day when most local boxing fans expected a new German champion to emerge.

He is currently set to defend his title on April 1, 2006 against Serguei Lyakhovich from Belarus.

Brewster has two kids with his wife and one from his previous relationship. He has two girls and a boy. Brewster is a devout Christian (to the point that he even asked the people at a pre-fight press conference to pray for him). He is also a cousin of IBF world Heavyweight Champion Chris Byrd (who is also very religious).

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Athletes - Lamon Brewster

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