Professional Boxing Career
Dorsey fought out of Fort Worth, Texas around the same time as Donald Curry, as the two shared the same manager.
In 1988 Dorsey became a Professional boxer. As a boxer Dorsey held the NABF Featherweight Title, IBO Super Featherweight Title and also won the IBF Featherweight World Championship. His style and endurance made him one of the eras most exciting fighters.
Dorsey's boxing resume saw him face some of the best fighters in his class with mixed results. One of Dorsey's greatest performances was a fast paced slugging match with national champion Harold Rhodes for the NABF Featherweight Championship. The two men met each round center ring both firing incredible volumes of powerful punches until Dorsey dropped Rhodes for a 10 count in the final moments of an exciting bout. Troy Dorsey is perhaps best known for two non-stop wars with IBF World Champion Jorge Páez including a highly controversial decision won by Paez in Dorsey's first title attempt. Brutal battles with Champions Gabriel Ruelas, Manuel Medina, Kevin Kelley Jesse James Leija and Tom Johnson as well as facing Olympian and future 5 time World champion Oscar De la Hoya were milestones in Dorsey's boxing career. Dorsey was known predominantly for his indominatable spirit, amazing physical endurance and a propensity to hammer an opponent with a withering constant barrage of punches. His overall aggressiveness and refusal to backdown prompted former Featherweight champion Kevin Kelley to equate his 12 round decision over Dorsey "Like a night spent in Hell!". Unfortunately Dorsey had a tendency to cut easily and saw several of his later fights stopped due to cuts: this subsequently hastened his retirement from the ring in 1998.
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