Marcus Browne

On April 19, 2014, Browne was scheduled to fight at the DC Armory in Washington against 36 year old former USBA light heavyweight champion Otis Griffin (24-15-2, 10 KOs).

This was his biggest challenge at the time, stepping up in competition.

Prior to the fight, Griffin was on a 5-fight losing streak.

In round 5, Browne dropped Griffin following a straight left, however Griffin beat the count and took Browne the 8-round distance for the second time in his career.

Browne won a shutout decision on the scorecards (80-71, 3 times).

The fight took place on Shawn Porter's IBF welterweight title defence against Paulie Malignaggi.

Marcus Browne (born November 10, 1990) is an American professional boxer who fights at light heavyweight.

Browne's next big challenge came in August 2014 against 36 year old Paul Vasquez (10-5-1, 3 KOs) at the Barclays Center.

Browne won the fight via stoppage after 28 seconds into the opening round.

Pryor Jr. retired on his stool at the end of round 6, giving Browne his 11th stoppage win in 14 professional fights.

A month later, on May 29, Browne fought again at the Barclays Arena on the Amir Khan vs. Chris Algieri undercard.

His opponent, considered as his best opponent to date was Cornelius White (21-3, 16 KOs).

After competing at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he lost in the first round to Damien Hooper, Browne made his professional boxing debut at the age of 21, on November 9, 2012, on Friday night as part of a Golden Boy Promotions card.

The fight took place at the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California, against 33-year-old Codale Ford (2-0) in a scheduled 4-round bout.

Also on the undercard were future prospects making their professional debuts including Dominic Breazeale, Terrell Gausha, Errol Spence Jr. and Rau'shee Warren.

Browne won the fight via technical knockout in round 3, overcoming Ford's awkward style.

Browne fought again a month later in December producing a first-round knockout win over Ritchie Cherry on the undercard of Amir Khan vs. Carlos Molina.

Browne fought a total of six times in 2013, which was his first full year as a professional.

He won all six fight, with five of them coming inside the distance.

He was taken the 8-round distance against Lamont Williams (5-1-1, 2 KOs) and won the scorecards that read (79-72, 79–72, 76-75).

Browne began to fight regularly at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

In December 2014, Browne fight at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California, against 40-year-old veteran George Blades (23-6, 16 KOs).

Blades was a late replacement and weighed 196.6 pounds, nearly 20 pounds heavier than the contracted weight limit.

Browne was originally scheduled to fight Henry Buchanan, who pulled out after suffering an injury in training.

The fight was also dropped from being televised.

Browne, despite being heavily outweighed, won the fight via first round stoppage victory.

White had lost his last two fights via stoppage, against Sergey Kovalev and Thomas Wiliams Jr., the latter who he fought in January 2014.

In the fifth round, both fighters tumbled to the canvas.

On April 6, 2018, Browne was arrested for two domestic incidents.

Authorities alleged that Browne had violated an order of protection by demanding entry to his ex-girlfriend's apartment and threatening to break in if she didn't obey his demands.

The incident took place on March 30, 2018, while the order of protection against Browne was issued on December 28, 2017, after Browne had allegedly assaulted the woman in question.

It was later revealed that Browne had been arrested once again for attacking his ex-girlfriend.

He allegedly kicked in the woman's door and choked her.

Browne later pleaded guilty to criminal contempt in the second degree on January 19, 2019, and was sentenced to 26 sessions of the batterer’s intervention program and a conditional discharge with a full order of protection.

On June 14, 2019, Browne was once again arrested, which was his fourth arrest in 18 months.

He was charged with felony counts of criminal contempt and aggravated family offense, as well as misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and criminal contempt.

The arrest came five months after he had pleaded guilty to criminal contempt.

On April 11, 2015, Browne was matched with 36 year old Aaron Pryor Jr. (19-7-1, 12 KOs), son of hall of famer former Lineal light welterweight champion Aaron Pryor.

The fight took place in front of 12,300 fans at the Barclays Center on the undercard of Danny Garcia vs. Lamont Peterson.

As of December 2020, he was ranked the world's sixth best active light heavyweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, eighth by The Ring magazine and seventh-best by Boxrec.