Antonio Tarver

Antonio Deon Tarver born November 21 1968 is an American former professional boxer and boxing commentator In boxing he competed from 1997 to 2015 and held multiple light heavyweight world championships including the WBA Unified WBC IBF and Ring magazine titles as well as the IBO light heavyweight and cruiserweight titles As an amateur Tarver represented the United States at the 1996 Olympics winning a bronze medal in the light heavyweight division he eventually lost to Vassiliy Jirov from Kazakhstan whom he had previously defeated at the 1995 World Championships to win gold Tarver also triumphed at the 1995 Pan American Games and 1995 US National Championships winning gold in both He remains the only boxer in history to have won gold at the Pan Am Games World Championships and US Nationals all in the same year Outside of boxing Tarver starred as Mason The Line Dixon the heavyweight champion in the 2006 film Rocky Balboa