ko weight birth_place nationality article_title total birth_date nickname realname home image losses wins style
25 lightweight pensacola , florida american derrick gainer
 50 22 august 1972 smoke derrick emory gainer pensacola , florida gainer pamungkas.jpg 7 43 southpaw
derrick gainer

derrick `` smoke '' gainer -lrb- born august 22 , 1972 , in pensacola , florida -rrb- is a us born boxer who started out in the featherweight division and now fights in the lightweight division .
in 2000 , he defeated freddie norwood to win the world boxing association -lrb- wba -rrb- featherweight title and after four defenses lost to juan manuel márquez , who became super champion , via technical decision in 2003 .
since his defeat to marquez , gainer lost in a challenge to wba titleholder chris john via unanimous decision .
nicknamed `` smoke '' , he is also a colleague and good friend of roy jones jr. .
his last was a split decision win over carlos navarro on the undercard of the roy jones-anthony hanshaw bout at the mississippi coast coliseum , in biloxi , mississippi derrick started a charter high school for at risk kids in 1999 which he named after his late grandmother dr. ruby j gainer .
this year gainer started fit nation which is a childhood obesity program with goals to help kids make healthy life style changes .
fit nation is a non-profit program located in pensacola , florida .
