Michael Carter-Williams
Ex-NBA Star Set To Make Boxing Debut
… Hoping For Knockout!!!
Revealed
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Michael Carter-Williams has traded in leap pictures and chest passes for jabs and physique blows — he is a boxer now — and he tells TMZ Sports activities he is gunning for a knockout in his first time on the mat later this month!!
The ex-NBA star — the eleventh total choose within the 2013 draft — has formally made the transition to the combat recreation for the reason that finish of his hooping profession … and his first official match will go down on the Broad Avenue Brawl on Could 29 on the Leman Ballroom in New York.
His opponent is Sam Khatib — an newbie boxer who’s 36 — and it is going to be a three-round affair with proceeds from the lean going to a good cause.
Carter-Williams, the 2013 NBA Rookie of the 12 months, instructed us he is stoked to combine it up for actual for the primary time in his combat profession … explaining he is been “locked in” with coaching.
A lot so, the 33-year-old confirmed us he just lately acquired a shiner throughout a sparring sesh!!
Regardless of his relative newness to the game, MCW instructed us his purpose is a KO — explaining, “I do know they will are available and try to knock me out, so that is what I am doing!”
As for his plans for after, he stated he’ll be in search of extra future bouts — although he completely dominated out a return to the hardwood.
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“We’ll see the place it takes me,” he stated, “however I positively need to combat. I positively need to have fights.”