Quote Originally Posted by jdonaher1 View Post
Kirk Johnson was supposed to fight Lennox Lewis but was injuried just a few weeks before the fight. Vitali Klitshcko was fighting on the undercard and agreed to step in on short notice to fight Lewis.

Kirk Johnson was involved in a dispute with the Halifax police department and woundup winning a judgement against them for $1mil+ and hasn't fought since.

I always thought he could have been good enough to win a alphabet strap but his stock dropped after he outboxed Ruiz only to be QD'd for about 256 lowblows.
I'm from his area and remember the case. He was driving in a rough end of town with tinted windows and texas plates. Police pulled him over and checked him out and released him. He sued claiming racism. Cops could see the color of his skin through tinted windows I guess.
Back in 1990 my brother in law was bouncing at a local bar and refused to let Kirk in without ID. Kirk came back with 4 friends and pulled the race card then. According to boxrec he was born in 72 which means he would have been 18 at the time. Which is underage here in NS.
Claims like his hurt the people with legitamate ones.
That's my rant for the day.
That being said, if he came back i'd probably still root for him, being local and all.