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Dwight Muhammad Qawi

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Qawi felt that making the division's 175-pound weight limit had drained him physically, and resolved to seek another world title in the newly created cruiserweight division. Freed of the need to fight to keep his weight down, Qawi reeled off another series of wins and claimed the WBA cruiserweight
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He went 1-1-1 in his first three pro fights, but then reeled off 14 straight victories to move into the world rankings at light heavyweight. The last of those wins came on September 5, 1981, when Braxton returned to Rahway to fight Scott, with the winner promised a shot at
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On December 19 of the same year, Braxton faced Saad Muhammad in Atlantic City. Braxton was the underdog against Saad, one of the most popular fighters of his generation and a fellow future Hall of Famer, but Braxton defeated him on a 10th-round technical
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In 1998, Dwight began working at the Lighthouse, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Mays Landing, New Jersey. He works with both adults and adolescents and is a patient advocate.
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Qawi retired in 1999 at the age of 46, with a career record of 41 wins, 11 losses and one draw, with 25 wins by way of knockout. Currently, he works as a boxing trainer in
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by knockout in seven rounds, being forced to quit from exhaustion, he tried to regain the cruiserweight title. On November 27, 1989, he dropped a split decision to
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After the loss to Holyfield, Qawi fought off and on for the next 12 years, but never regained a world title. He rematched with Holyfield in 1987 for the WBA and
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He defended the title three times in the next 15 months, knocking out Jerry Martin, Saad Muhammad a second time and Eddie Davis. On March 18, 1983,
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and became a world champion for the first time. It was shortly after this that he announced his conversion to
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that Braxton found his place in life. The prison had an extensive boxing program and one of its inmates,
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and with good reason as he had trained in Frazier's Philadelphia gym as a professional. He converted to
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in the early 80s and had his name changed from Dwight Braxton to Dwight Muhammad Qawi.
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He won two more fights, including a victory over former world heavyweight titlist
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After a short stint in the heavyweight ranks, where in 1988 he lost to
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world championship belt. Braxton won a unanimous 10-round decision.
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who competed from 1978 to 1998. He was a world champion in two
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Broadway by the Bay Theater, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.
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cruiserweight titles, but was stopped in the fourth round.
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on July 12, 1986. The fight, in Holyfield's hometown of
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Won vacant WBC Continental Americas cruiserweight title
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Won vacant WBC Continental Americas cruiserweight title
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title from 1985 to 1986. Qawi was inducted into the
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Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Index

Baltimore
Maryland
Camden
Light heavyweight
Cruiserweight
Heavyweight
Orthodox
professional boxer
weight classes
WBC
Ring
light heavyweight
WBA
cruiserweight
International Boxing Hall of Fame
Baltimore, Maryland
Camden, New Jersey
Rahway State Prison
James Scott
Joe Frazier
Islam
Matthew Saad Muhammad
WBC
knockout
Islam
he lost a close but unanimous decision
WBA
Michael Spinks
Piet Crous
South Africa

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