Gordon Berry had his own boxing aspirations as a teenager back in the day, training in Lewiston a couple of times a week and taking on some amateur fights. But his ultimate fighting legacy will be as an inspiration for younger brother Brandon Berry, who emerged from the small town of West Forks in northwestern Maine to become the state’s most prolific professional pugilist since Lewiston’s Joey Gamache was a world champion during the 1990s. The younger Berry — known as “The Cannon” — is 23-6-2 in the pros, and on Saturday night he will fight undefeated Argentinian Juan Manuel Witt (33-0-2) for the United Boxing Organization Intercontinental welterweight championship at the Skowhegan Community Center. It’s there where the Berrys’ boxing partnership will come full circle, as 40-year-old Gordon Berry will return to the ring after a 12-year layoff to make his professional debut on the card promoted by his brother. “It was always something I thought about over the years, but life and working and business and the commitment it would take to get in shape and train and travel and do everything it would take to prepare for it, I just never made the move to do it,” Gordon Berry said. “But I would see my brother go to the gym all the time, and I was looking to get into shape myself, so a few months back I started going to the gym and sparring with some of the guys.
Comment on Brothers’ love of boxing coming full circle with bouts on same card
Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News
Wed, 06/08/2022 - 10:00pm
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