Maurice Blocker

Maurice "The Thin Man" Blocker (born May 15, 1963 in Washington, D.C.) is an American retired professional welterweight (147 lb) boxer.

Blocker became a professional boxer in 1982. He lost his first opportunity to win a title in 1987 to Lloyd Honeyghan. In 1990 he captured the lineal and WBC welterweight titles from Marlon Starling, but lost them during his next fight to Simon Brown. In 1991 he defeated Glenwood Brown to capture the vacant IBF welterweight title. He defended the title successfully once and in 1993 moved up a weight class to fight Terry Norris for the WBC light middleweight title. He was TKO'd, and later that year took on Félix Trinidad to defend his IBF welterweight title but was KO'd in the 2nd. He retired in 1995.

His record was 36-4 with 20 knockouts.

See also

• List of current world boxing champions
• List of WBC world champions
• List of IBF world champions

External links

• Boxing record for Maurice Blocker from BoxRec

Preceded by Marlon Starling	WBC Welterweight Champion August 19, 1990 – March 18, 1991	Succeeded by Simon Brown
	Lineal Welterweight Champion August 19, 1990 – March 18, 1991
Preceded by Simon Brown vacant title	IBF Welterweight Champion October 4, 1991 – June 19, 1993	Succeeded by Félix Trinidad