Anthony Hembrick vs. Booker T. Word

Undefeated 1988 Olympian and ex-Army sergeant Anthony Hembrick prepares to go after the vacant USBA light-heavyweight title against lightly regarded Booker T. Word. The fight is in Hembrick's Ft. Bragg, North Carolina stomping grounds, so he decides to show off some Temptation-esque and James Brown-like dance steps just before the fight! Evidently, he used up a little TOO MUCH energy.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Boxing
• Anthony
• Hembrick
• Booker
• T.
• Word
• stupid
• showboating
• dancing
• pre-fight
• ritual

[junedeon]

Damn, that brother went down like a ton of Hembricks!

[22432243]

I remember before the fight in an interview he (Hembrick) was talking in the 3rd person and said he was going to have the other guy swinging at Casper the friendly ghost. What an ass.

[Rickin1974]

@Vergadoce No, his entrance took longer than the whole fight, he and his people made a dancing train....he should have came to the ring on a horse though, it would have cut the entrance time in half!....Tuesday night fights were the best! LMAO

[sinusbradycardia]

Another fighter who deserves 2b mentioned from Livonia Boxing Club was Kermit Fitzpatrick. He was an undefeated heavyweight when I left back to FL when summer was over n 90. I believe he fought on USA & was winning a fight against 7'1" Marcus Allen but in the fourth he got caught w/a big punch and lost by KO. A sad note, I don't know how many more fights Fitzpatrick after but he was killed in the line of duty. He was a Michigan State Trooper & was shot & killed during a routine traffic stop.

[sinusbradycardia]

Booker T. Word trained at Livonia Boxing Club in Livonia MI. I trained right long side him & didn't know who he was, in the summer of 1990. Finally somebody mentioned he ko'ed Hembrick. I'm glad I fought at 132 & only 15. He also sparred with & gave Kady King all he could handle. An unknown from Detroit had potential, made a few appearances on ESPN. Both faded into oblivion. As 4 Hembrick's dance he must have felt pretty stupid afterwords and Booker said he wanted to knock his cocky head off.

[eshoww]

Thats right. He sure did blame his hair product!! I wish someone had the whole broadcast because in the pre-fight interview he was talking so much trash!! I remember this on USA Tuesday Night Fights. He was showboating his ass off. They were panning the camera in the audience to his girfriend who was just smiling but when he got his ass rocked that was her screaming in the background lmao!!

[teedzy1]

do you know this mother fucker blamed a new hair product he was using,i shit you not

[Vergadoce]

Hembrick, if I'm not mistaken, came to the ring on a HORSE. So as obnoxious as his showboating was in the ring, what he did outside of hit was equally comical. And seeing him get shit stomped made my day. Watching it again has just made my day too

[blac2thafuture]

saw this fight on tv , never laughed so hard seeing a guy come out and show boat like theat , then gets his ass kicked bad ............lol

[chalino19]

that shit ref really wanted Hembrick to win

[naffynuck]

@22432243 lols I also remember him saying something like he's never heard of Mr Olympia winning a boxing match lols he had no losses before this too... Crack up

[Pomaori]

"I feel like a champ he said " aaahahahahaha damn nigga