Professional Career
Johnson won his first 32 professional fights before challenging Bernard Hopkins for the IBF middleweight title in 1997. He suffered a technical knockout in the 11th round.
He added eight more to his tally of losses before drawing with and then beating Clinton Woods with a unanimous decision to earn the IBF light heavyweight title. His next fight came against former champion Roy Jones Jr. In an upset, he knocked Jones out in the ninth round of their September 2004 fight.
The subsequent split decision victory over Antonio Tarver that December made him The Ring light heavyweight boxing champion. He was chosen the 2004 fighter of the year by the Boxing Writer's Association of America.
Johnson lost the light heavyweight title to Antonio Tarver in the rematch. He then challenged old foe Woods once again for the IBF title. This time Woods beat him by a split decision. He then came back and defeated former champion Montell Griffin in May 2007.
Johnson lost a unanimous decision to Chad Dawson on April 12, 2008, for the WBC light heavyweight title. On November 7, 2009, Johnson lost a rematch with Dawson via unanimous decision in Hartford, CT. The judges scores were 115-113, 115-113 and 117-111 for Dawson.
Glen "The Road warrior" Johnson often prepares for his fights at Danny Hawk's World Famous Normandy Gym in Miami Beach, FL, taking advantage of the high quality sparring available at Hawk's Gym and also in thump boxing gym on 8100 sw 81 st street
On August 7, 2010 Johnson challenged Tavoris Cloud for the IBF light heavyweight title but lost a close decision 116-112 from all 3 judges despite landing more punches according to CompuBox.
Glen Johnson has joined the Super Six World Boxing Classic replacing Mikkel Kessler due to Kessler eye injury. Glen Johnson defeated Allan Green by a knockout in the eighth round, on November 6, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada and with that win proceeded to the Semi-Final of the Super 6 Tournament where he faced Carl Froch for a place in the Super 6 Final and WBC world Super-Middleweight title. Johnson Lost the fight by Majority decision with one judge scoring the contest a draw and the remaining two judges scoring in favour of Froch.
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