ko weight birth_place height nationality article_title total birth_date draws reach realname losses name wins style
30 light heavyweight lincoln park , maryland , u.s. 175 cm usa u.s. william joppy
 49 11 september 1970 2 184 cm william torelle joppy 7 william joppy 40 orthodox
william joppy

william torelle joppy -lrb- born september 11 , 1970 -rrb- is an american middleweight boxer .
joppy held the wba middleweight title on three occasions .
he first became the wba champion in june 1996 by stopping defender shinji takehara in japan with a flurry of punches in the ninth round .
he then would make a couple defenses of his crown .
however , on august 23 , 1997 , joppy lost a controversial decision to julio césar green .
joppy 's very next fight , on january 31 of the next year , saw him avenge that loss with a decision win by a wide margin .
this fight won joppy the wba title for the second time .
after recovering from a neck injury , joppy stopped green on cuts in the seventh round in a rubber match -lrb- green had been the interim champion while joppy recovered -rrb- , and made a few more defenses , including a 3rd round tko of a 47-year old roberto durán .
