Michael Carter-Williams
Ex-NBA Star Set To Make Boxing Debut
… Hoping For Knockout!!!
Revealed
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Michael Carter-Williams has traded in leap pictures and chest passes for jabs and physique blows — he is a boxer now — and he tells TMZ Sports activities he is gunning for a knockout in his first time on the mat later this month!!
The ex-NBA star — the eleventh total decide within the 2013 draft — has formally made the transition to the battle sport for the reason that finish of his hooping profession … and his first official match will go down on the Broad Road Brawl on Could 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 great trigger.
Carter-Williams, the 2013 NBA Rookie of the Yr, informed us he is stoked to combine it up for actual for the primary time in his battle profession … explaining he is been “locked in” with coaching.
A lot so, the 33-year-old confirmed us he lately obtained a shiner throughout a sparring sesh!!
Regardless of his relative newness to the game, MCW informed 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 searching for 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.”
