TRUAX, CALEB

January 26, 2022 Jesse Kelley 0 ACTIVE, MODERN, STATE CHAMPIONS, WORLD CHAMPIONS,

NAME: Caleb Truax

NICKNAME: Golden

BORN: September 14, 1983

STATS:

Weight:	Middleweight, Super middleweight
Height:	6 ft 1 in
Reach:	75 in
Fighting Out Of:	Osseo, Minnesota
Hometown:	Osseo, Minnesota
Stance:	Orthodox

QUICK HITS:
Truax is a native of Osseo, Minnesota. He has a twin sister, Erin Truax, and a younger brother, Seth Martinez.

Truax is a 2002 graduate of Osseo Senior High School. While attending high school, he was an all-conference member of the Osseo Orioles football and baseball teams.

Truax then played football at Virginia State University for one year before a knee injury ended his gridiron career. He returned home in 2003 to attend the University of Minnesota, and it was there at the age of 19 that Truax entered a local Toughman contest. He lost his first fight, but soon became consumed by boxing—altering his diet and training as he pursued an amateur career.

Truax graduated from the University of Minnesota majoring in Sociology, minoring in both African American studies and Political Science.

STORY:
Caleb Truax (born September 14, 1983) is an American professional boxer. He held the IBF super middleweight title from 2017 to 2018 and challenged once for the WBA (Regular) middleweight title in 2015.

As an amateur, Truax compiled a record of 21 wins and 8 losses. In 2006 he was the USA Boxing State Champion, the Region 1 Champion, and the Upper Midwest Golden Gloves Champion.

IBF World Super Middleweight title fight

On 9 December 2017, Truax fought British fighter James ‘Chunky’ DeGale at the Copper Box Arena in London, England, for Degale’s IBF World Super Middleweight Title. Truax got off the mark the quickest and hit DeGale with several heavy shots throughout the fight. Although DeGale used his experience to come back into the fight in later rounds, it turned out to be too little too late. Truax showed great stamina and endurance to win the fight against the odds by Majority Decision, with scores of 116-112, 115-112 and 114-114 in favor of Truax. Although there was no re-match in the contract, DeGale immediately expressed his wish for a second fight upon losing. Truax’s victory was possibly one of the biggest boxing upsets of 2017, with both Bookmakers and Boxing Media heavily favoring DeGale pre-fight.

Truax vs DeGale II

The rematch happened four months after, in Las Vegas. In what was a close and very competitive fight, Truax was overmatched by DeGale. The fight was full of clinches and headbutts, especially DeGale who got cut over his right eye, and was a bloody mess by the end of the fight. In the end, all three judges scored the fight in favor of DeGale, two of them scoring it 114-113 and one judge seeing a wider victory for DeGale, scoring the fight 117-100 in favor of DeGale.

On 13 April 2019, Truax fought Peter Quillin. The fight ended in a no-contest, because of an accidental head clash which caused a severe cut over Truax’s right eye. After the fight, Truax stated that we was ready to continue, but the ringside physician made the final call.

In his next fight, Truax faced David Basajjamivule in his home state of Minnesota. Truax was more effective than his opponent during the fight, while Basajjamivule got a point deducted in two occasions, once for hitting Truax at the back of his head, and once for holding. Truax won the fight via majority-decision.

Contributing sources include Wikipedia

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