Jesse Brinkley
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Jesse Lee Brinkley is a professional super middleweight
American
boxer
. He holds the WBC
USNBC Super Middleweight
Title as of February 22, 2008.
in the U. S. state of Nevada
, where he loves the country life of fishing and shooting. He is described by NBC
as "the class clown", such a lively character as he is. He lives with his longtime girlfriend and their two young children.
Oscar de la Hoya
.
He also has a tattoo which is of a scorpion.
In 2004, he entered reality tv show The Contender, and was placed on the West Coast Team. Having seen his team-mate Gomez
beat the highest-ranked boxer in the competition (Manfredo
), he took on the second-highest ranked, Jonathan Reid
, and won. His Quarter Final fight saw him having to lose a pounds in an hour to make the weight restriction against Anthony Bonsante
, but he won anyway - getting into the semi-finals, albeit in a battered and bruised state. He lost his semi-final against the eventual winner Sergio Mora
, and went on to lose the 3rd Place Fight to Alfonso Gomez
in a good action fight.
Brinkley spent the early stages of the competition as a friend and advisor to Joey Gilbert
.
On May 10, 2006 Brinkley fought the undefeated Joey Spina
. He was well in control of the fight when in the eleventh round he was hit with a devastating hard body shot and Brinkley crumbled into the corner the referee was forced to stop the fight.
In 2008, in a clash of former boxing TV reality contestants, he took on Otis Griffin, the winner of reality TV show The Next Great Champ
on Fox. Brinkley stopped Griffin in the 11th round at the Silver Legacy Hotel and Casino in Reno
. Brinkley won the vacant WBC USNBC Super Middleweight title with the victory.http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008802230366
On February 14, 2009, Brinkley fought longtime rival Joey Gilbert
at The Reno Events Center in Reno, NV. Brinkley scored a knockdown in the fifth round with a right cross that severely broke Gilbert’s nose. Gilbert spent most of the early portion of the fight trying to use movement to frustrate Brinkley, but did not add punches with that movement so Brinkley easily won most of the early rounds. Later in the fight Gilbert started to hold his ground more and made the fight more competitive, but Brinkley still had the upper hand in most of their exchanges. Brinkley went on to win the match via a wide unanimous decision.http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2009-02-15-3658564402_x.htm
Brinkley fought Mike Paschall on July 10, 2009 and won by unanimous decision.http://www.rgj.com/article/20090605/SPORTS/906050423
On January 29, 2010, Brinkley fought Curtis "Showtime" Stevens in Reno as part of ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. The bout was an IBF Title Eliminator bout giving the winner an IBF ranking of #2. Stevens claimed that Brinkley would not last fifty seconds in the ring with him beforehand, and started the fight aggressively, landing several hard hooks to Brinkley's face in the 1st round, causing swelling over Jesse's right eye very early, but Brinkley weathered the initial storm of Stevens, and outboxed/outfought him in an entertaining fight, dropping Stevens in the 6th and 12th rounds en route to a wide decision win, 117-109, 118-108, 119-107.
On October 15, 2010 Brinkley fought against the IBF Super Middleweight champion Lucian Bute
in Montreal, Canada. Brinkley was knocked down twice in rounds five and eight before being stopped in the ninth round.
On April 29, 2011 Brinkley fought Peter Quillin
in Reno, Nevada for the vacant United States Boxing Organisation Super Middleweight Championship. Brinkley lost by TKO in the third round.
Super middleweight
Super Middleweight is a boxing and Muay Thai weight division that has a weight limit of 168 pounds .- 1960s–1983 :There was interest in a division between Middleweight and Light Heavyweight in the late 1960s, the mid-1970s, and the early 1980s...
American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
boxer
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
. He holds the WBC
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...
USNBC Super Middleweight
Super middleweight
Super Middleweight is a boxing and Muay Thai weight division that has a weight limit of 168 pounds .- 1960s–1983 :There was interest in a division between Middleweight and Light Heavyweight in the late 1960s, the mid-1970s, and the early 1980s...
Title as of February 22, 2008.
Personal life
Jesse comes from the tiny town of YeringtonYerington, Nevada
Yerington is a city in Lyon County, located in western Nevada, USA. The population was 2,883 at the 2000 census. It is named after Henry M. Yerington, Superintendent of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad from 1868 to 1910. It is the county seat of Lyon County....
in the U. S. state of Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
, where he loves the country life of fishing and shooting. He is described by NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
as "the class clown", such a lively character as he is. He lives with his longtime girlfriend and their two young children.
Boxing career
Brinkley disliked wearing headgear and hated the amateur point scoring system - so he turned professional quickly. His dream is to fight the legendary boxerBoxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...
.
He also has a tattoo which is of a scorpion.
In 2004, he entered reality tv show The Contender, and was placed on the West Coast Team. Having seen his team-mate Gomez
Alfonso Gomez
Alfonso Salvador Gómez Becerra is a Mexican professional boxer. He was a competitor on the reality TV show The Contender, where he ended up ranked third out of sixteen fighters.-Personal life:...
beat the highest-ranked boxer in the competition (Manfredo
Peter Manfredo
Peter Manfredo Jr. is a professional boxer. He is the IBO Middleweight champion. He held the NABO Light Middleweight IBU Light Middleweight EBA Light Middleweight...
), he took on the second-highest ranked, Jonathan Reid
Jonathan Reid
Jonathan Douglass Reid is a professional boxer. He is a single parent and has five children.He was a contestant on reality TV show The Contender. On the show, he was placed on the East Coast team, fighting Jesse Brinkley in the second first round fight...
, and won. His Quarter Final fight saw him having to lose a pounds in an hour to make the weight restriction against Anthony Bonsante
Anthony Bonsante
Anthony "The Bullet" Bonsante is a professional boxer and competitor on reality TV show The Contender. He also works overnight as a supervisor at a distribution center.-Personal life:...
, but he won anyway - getting into the semi-finals, albeit in a battered and bruised state. He lost his semi-final against the eventual winner Sergio Mora
Sergio Mora
Sergio "The Latin Snake" Mora is a Mexican American professional boxer trained by Dean Campos. He is the former WBC Light Middleweight Champion and also the first champion of NBC's The Contender....
, and went on to lose the 3rd Place Fight to Alfonso Gomez
Alfonso Gomez
Alfonso Salvador Gómez Becerra is a Mexican professional boxer. He was a competitor on the reality TV show The Contender, where he ended up ranked third out of sixteen fighters.-Personal life:...
in a good action fight.
Brinkley spent the early stages of the competition as a friend and advisor to Joey Gilbert
Joey Gilbert
Joseph Salvatore Gilbert is a retired professional boxer, currently a criminal defense & personal injury lawyer, and sports agent.-Biography:...
.
On May 10, 2006 Brinkley fought the undefeated Joey Spina
Joey Spina
Joey Spina is an American professional boxer.Joey Spina is a former IBF Inter-Continental Super Middleweight champion and WBC United States Super Middleweight champion. Spina won the WBC United States Super Middleweight title in 2005 when he decisioned Carl Daniels for the vacant title...
. He was well in control of the fight when in the eleventh round he was hit with a devastating hard body shot and Brinkley crumbled into the corner the referee was forced to stop the fight.
In 2008, in a clash of former boxing TV reality contestants, he took on Otis Griffin, the winner of reality TV show The Next Great Champ
The Next Great Champ
The Next Great Champ was a reality television series on Fox that aired in early 2005. It followed a group of boxers as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, while their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted...
on Fox. Brinkley stopped Griffin in the 11th round at the Silver Legacy Hotel and Casino in Reno
Reno
Reno is the fourth most populous city in Nevada, US.Reno may also refer to:-Places:Italy*The Reno River, in Northern ItalyCanada*Reno No...
. Brinkley won the vacant WBC USNBC Super Middleweight title with the victory.http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008802230366
On February 14, 2009, Brinkley fought longtime rival Joey Gilbert
Joey Gilbert
Joseph Salvatore Gilbert is a retired professional boxer, currently a criminal defense & personal injury lawyer, and sports agent.-Biography:...
at The Reno Events Center in Reno, NV. Brinkley scored a knockdown in the fifth round with a right cross that severely broke Gilbert’s nose. Gilbert spent most of the early portion of the fight trying to use movement to frustrate Brinkley, but did not add punches with that movement so Brinkley easily won most of the early rounds. Later in the fight Gilbert started to hold his ground more and made the fight more competitive, but Brinkley still had the upper hand in most of their exchanges. Brinkley went on to win the match via a wide unanimous decision.http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2009-02-15-3658564402_x.htm
Brinkley fought Mike Paschall on July 10, 2009 and won by unanimous decision.http://www.rgj.com/article/20090605/SPORTS/906050423
On January 29, 2010, Brinkley fought Curtis "Showtime" Stevens in Reno as part of ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. The bout was an IBF Title Eliminator bout giving the winner an IBF ranking of #2. Stevens claimed that Brinkley would not last fifty seconds in the ring with him beforehand, and started the fight aggressively, landing several hard hooks to Brinkley's face in the 1st round, causing swelling over Jesse's right eye very early, but Brinkley weathered the initial storm of Stevens, and outboxed/outfought him in an entertaining fight, dropping Stevens in the 6th and 12th rounds en route to a wide decision win, 117-109, 118-108, 119-107.
On October 15, 2010 Brinkley fought against the IBF Super Middleweight champion Lucian Bute
Lucian Bute
Lucian Bute is a Romanian-Canadian professional boxer, currently based in Montreal, Canada. Bute is the current IBF Super Middleweight champion...
in Montreal, Canada. Brinkley was knocked down twice in rounds five and eight before being stopped in the ninth round.
On April 29, 2011 Brinkley fought Peter Quillin
Peter Quillin
For the 1930s boxer Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo, better known by the nickname "Kid Chocolate," see Kid Chocolate.Peter Quillin is an undefeated Cuban-American boxer in the Super Middleweight division. He's trained by 4-time trainer of the year Freddie Roach. Quillin is signed to Oscar de la Hoya's...
in Reno, Nevada for the vacant United States Boxing Organisation Super Middleweight Championship. Brinkley lost by TKO in the third round.