Egerton Marcus is a retired Canadian boxer

Boxing

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 who won the silver medal in the Middleweight division

Olympic medalists in boxing

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 (71–75 kg) at the 1988 Summer Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

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 in Seoul

Seoul

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Early life

Egerton is the third child of five. He has two older brothers (Neville and Christopher) and two younger sisters (Sharon and Felicia). Born in Guyana

Guyana

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, he was raised in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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Amateur career

Won the Middleweight Silver Medal representing Canada at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. His results were:

• 1st round bye
• Defeated Emmanuel Legaspi (Philippines) KO 1
• Defeated Darko Dukić (Yugoslavia) KO 2
• Defeated Sven Ottke
  Sven Ottke
  Sven Ottke, known as "The Phantom", is a German former professional boxer who was the IBF/WBA super middleweight champion...
  
   (West Germany) 5-0
• Defeated Hussain Shah Syed
  Hussain Shah Syed
  Syed Hussain Shah is a boxer from Pakistan, who won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He shared the podium with Kenya's Chris Sande. He was Pakistan's first boxer to win any medal in olympic boxing. In 1989, Lyari born boxer received...
  
   (Pakistan) 4-1
• Lost to Henry Maske
  Henry Maske
  Henry Maske is a German boxer, one of Germany's most popular sports figures.-Amateur career:Maske was an Olympic Gold Medalist 1988 in Seoul for East Germany...
  
   (East Germany) 0-5

Professional career

Marcus turned pro in 1989 and began his career with fourteen consecutive wins, including a bloody TKO win over former Olympian Andrew Maynard. In 1995 he challenged Henry Maske

Henry Maske

Henry Maske is a German boxer, one of Germany's most popular sports figures.-Amateur career:Maske was an Olympic Gold Medalist 1988 in Seoul for East Germany...

 for the IBF Light Heavyweight Title and lost by unanimous decision. Marcus's career then veered off track, culminating with a TKO loss to Donovan Ruddock

Donovan Ruddock

Donovan Ruddock , also known as Razor Ruddock, is a retired Canadian heavyweight boxer. He was a promising Heavyweight of the late 1980s and early 1990s...

 at heavyweight. Marcus retired in 2001 with a record of 16-4-1.

Life after boxing

Egerton ran a boxing gym in Toronto's Liberty Village (The Egerton Marcus Boxing Academy) until the summer of 2006. He is still training with former Olympic coach Adrian Teodorescu at the Atlas Gym in Toronto.

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