Michael Carter-Williams
Ex-NBA Star Set To Make Boxing Debut
… Hoping For Knockout!!!
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Michael Carter-Williams has traded in leap photographs and chest passes for jabs and physique blows — he is a boxer now — and he tells TMZ Sports he is gunning for a knockout in his first time on the mat later this month!!
The ex-NBA star — the eleventh general decide within the 2013 draft — has formally made the transition to the struggle recreation for the reason that finish of his hooping profession … and his first official match will go down on the Broad Street Brawl on May 29 on the Leman Ballroom in New York.
His opponent is Sam Khatib — an newbie boxer who’s 36 — and it is going to be a three-round affair with proceeds from the lean going to a good cause.
Carter-Williams, the 2013 NBA Rookie of the Year, advised us he is stoked to combine it up for actual for the primary time in his struggle profession … explaining he is been “locked in” with coaching.
So a lot so, the 33-year-old confirmed us he just lately acquired a shiner throughout a sparring sesh!!
Despite his relative newness to the game, MCW advised us his purpose is a KO — explaining, “I know they’re going to come in and try and knock me out, so that’s what I’m doing!”
As for his plans for after, he mentioned he’ll be in search of extra future bouts — although he completely dominated out a return to the hardwood.
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“We’ll see where it takes me,” he mentioned, “but I definitely want to fight. I definitely want to have fights.”
