Shawndell Terell Winters (born November 5, 1980) is an American

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. He has held the WBA- NABA

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title since 2019. Winters had a late start to boxing, turning professional in the sport at 34 years of age. As an amateur, he competed at the

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on two occasions. In 2014 he placed second after losing to DeRae Crane and in 2012 he suffered an early defeat thus missing out on qualification into the quarterfinals. In February 2020, Winters received his first ever appearance in one of the four major sanctioning bodies rankings by the WBA.

Professional career

In July 2016, Winters was confirmed to fight former

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ian olympian

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as the co-main event in Hammond,

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. He recorded a dominant fifth-round

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after a right-hand staggered Amponsah before Winters finished with a flurry of punches that left his opponent face down on the canvas. The bout was immediately waved off for medical attention. The following year Winters fought in

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where he suffered his first defeat in an upset victory for Brian Howard. Winters redeemed himself after winning three consecutive knockout victories over Raymond Gray, Joe Jones, and Ryan Soft before receiving an eight-round

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loss in his second fight overseas against Nikodem Jeżewski. Winters recorded an upset

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win over undefeated

Oleksandr Teslenko in

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on the latest United Boxing Promotions card. He landed an overhand right and began connecting many more combination punches until the referee intervened. Winters became the new

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champion. He then fought during November in

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against Sergiej Werwejko. Winters produced a solid performance by dropping and outclassing Werwejko in the seventh round. In February 2020, it was announced Winters would fight former heavyweight world champion Joseph Parker in

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on the undercard of

Mikey Garcia Miguel Angel Garcia Cortez (born December 15, 1987), best known as Mikey Garcia, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2021. He held multiple world championships in four weight classes from featherweight to light w ...

versus

Jessie Vargas Jessie Vargas (born May 10, 1989) is an American professional boxer. He is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBA (Regular) and IBO super lightweight titles in 2014, and the WBO welterweight title in 2016. As of Aug ...

Professional boxing record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Winters, Shawndell African-American boxers American male boxers 1980 births Living people Heavyweight boxers 21st-century African-American sportspeople 20th-century African-American people