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McCline vs. Llewelyn

Williams vs. Levin

April 15, 2004

Hammerstein Ballroom

 New York

11 PM ET/PT

Shobox will present two heavyweight fights on Thursday night. First off, the WBO and IBF fourth ranked

contender Jameel "Big Time" McCline will take on Wayne Llewelyn. Then, the WBO ninth ranked

contender Attila "The Hun" Levin will take on Jeremy Williams.

Jameel McCline (30-3-3, 18 KO's), who is also ranked # 10 by the WBC and # 14 by the WBA, started his

career in 1995 and started out 2-2-1 in his first five bouts. McCline then rolled off a 26-0-2 run that culminated

in a 10 round unanimous decision victory over recent K-1 winner Shannon Briggs (40-4-1, 34 KO's) in July

of 2002. His next bout was in December of 2002 against Wladimir Klitschko (42-3, 39 KO's) for the WBO

heavyweight championship. Klitschko was a little too much for McCline on that night and the fight was

stopped after the 10th round marking McCline's first loss in 29 fights. McCline then came back in May of

2003 with a third round TKO win over Charles Shufford (20-5, 9 KO's) and is coming off a 10th round TKO

win over Cedric Boswell (21-1, 16 KO's) in October of 2003. 

Wayne Llewelyn (26-4, 19 KO's) is on a five fight win streak since losing his last bout in December of

2000 to Alex Vassilev (16-12, 8 KO's) via first round TKO. In his last bout (October, 2003), Llewelyn

defeated Ervin Slonka (2-6-1, 2 KO's) by second round TKO.

Three of the four losses Llewelyn has suffered have been by knockout or technical knockout within the

first two rounds. McCline has punching power (he put Briggs on the canvas) and can box and quite frankly,

Llewelyn is a little over his head in this one - McCline by third round TKO.

Next, we have Attila Levin (29-1, 23 KO's) who's on a 15 fight winning streak. Levin started his career in

1997 and  won his first 11 fights by knockout or technical knockout (all inside of three rounds) before going

the distance in his next three bouts (all six rounds). Levin then tasted defeat for the first and only time in his

career by losing to Ramon Hayes (10-16-1, 7 KO's) by first round TKO in June of 2000. His last bout was in

December of 2003 when he defeated Pedro Franco (21-12, 17 KO's) by third round knockout.

Jeremy Williams (40-4-1, 35 KO's) comes into this fight having won a 10 round unanimous decision over

Andre Purlette (37-2, 34 KO's) in September of 2003. Williams, a former WBC Continental Americas

heavyweight champion, took some time off between April of 2000 and March of 2002. Since coming

back in March of 2002, Williams is 5-0-1.

Difficult one to call - both have good power. I'd have to give Williams the edge in terms of quality of

opponents faced. It's either going to end early with someone being knocked out or it will go the distance -

Williams by fourth round TKO.

SN

Line-up:

Heavyweight Bout (10 Rds)

Attila Levin (29-1, 23 KO's) vs. Jeremy Williams (40-4-1, 35 KO's)

Heavyweight Bout (10 Rds)

Jameel McCline (30-3-3, 18 KO's) vs. Wayne Llewelyn (26-4, 19 KO's)

Card subject to Change

(4/13/04)