Terry McGroom was a 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...

 in the Heavyweight division.

Amateur career

McGroom had a stellar amateur career prior to turning professional. He was a National Golden Gloves Light Heavyweight champion in 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1992 and a National Amateur Light Heavyweight Champion in 1991. McGroom also won a silver medal from the 1990 Goodwill Games

Goodwill Games

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 in the 81KG division.

Professional career

McGroom turned pro in 1993 and started off his pro career going undefeated in his first 11 fights. He then faced Darrol Wilson in 1995, a heavy hitting heavyweight who would make a name for himself later on, and battled his way to a 10 round draw. McGroom's next big fight was a 8th round TKO loss to future contender Kirk Johnson. Johnson was much bigger than McGroom and slugged him to the canvas.

After the loss to Johnson, McGroom's impressive victory over Estaban Pizzarro in 1999 earned him the biggest fight of his career against James Toney

James Toney

James Nathanial Toney is an American professional boxer who has held world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, and cruiserweight divisions. Toney currently fights in the heavyweight division in boxing and also now competes in mixed martial arts.-Boxing career:Toney's amateur boxing...

 in 2000. It was a close fight with Toney and some thought the decision should have been given to McGroom.
In 2001 he challenged Vasily Jirov for his IBF Cruiserweight belt. The result was a shocking one round KO for Jirov, the result from one well place body shot.

McGroom then moved up to Heavyweight and had little success. He lost to future contenders Dominick Guinn

Dominick Guinn

Dominick Alexander Guinn, , is an American professional boxer with a record of 33-6-1, with 22 KOs. He is self-managed and he is trained by Ronnie Shields...

, Malik Scott

Malik Scott

Dohonna Malik Scott is an American Heavyweight boxer.-Amateur career:Scott started boxing at the age of 11 and had a stellar amateur career...

, and Timor Ibragimov before retiring in 2004.

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