Marlon Starling

Career, Record, Stats
Marlon Starling

Marlon Starling (Magic Man) is a 65-year-old retired American professional boxer. He is a former welterweight world champion with 2 world-title wins. In a career spanning 11 years and 23 days, Starling amassed a record of 45-6-1, which includes 27 wins via KO, 2 of which were in world-title fights.

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LEGEND

Marlon Starling's Boxing Career

Marlon Starling was born in Hartford, Connecticut on August 29, 1959. He made his professional debut at the age of 19 years on July 27, 1979 against Tim LaValley. Starling defeated LaValley via 3rd round TKO, making a successful beginning of his pro career.

Starling got his first world-title fight at the age of 24 after 32 professional fights. On February 4, 1984 Starling challenged Donald Curry's WBA and IBF welterweight titles but lost via 15-round unanimous decision.

He became a world champion on August 22, 1987 at the age of 27 years, after by defeating Mark Breland, the then-reining WBA welterweight champion, via 11th round TKO. This was his 46th fight as a professional.

Starling then went on to successfully win the WBC welterweight world title as well.

Starling's last fight was a majority decision loss to Maurice Blocker at age 30, on August 19, 1990, in which he lost his WBC welterweight title.

Some of Marlon Starling's best fights have been against Lloyd Honeyghan, Mark Breland, Simon Brown, and Floyd Mayweather Sr. For a complete list of Starling's best fights and their details, refer to "Best fights of Marlon Starling".

Starling has 6 losses on his record. For details about these losses refer to "Marlon Starling Losses".

Marlon Starling's Boxing Record

# Date Age Opponent Res Via
53
Aug 19, 1990 30 generic fighter pic Maurice Blocker
loss
MD
12
52
Apr 14, 1990 30 Michael Nunn Michael Nunn 27 34-0
loss
MD
12
51
Sep 15, 1989 30 generic fighter pic Young Kil Jung
win
UD
12
50
Feb 04, 1989 29 Lloyd Honeyghan Lloyd Honeyghan 28 33-1
win
TKO
9
49
Jul 29, 1988 28 generic fighter pic Tomás Molinares
nc
NA
48
Apr 16, 1988 28 Mark Breland Mark Breland 24 20-1
draw
SD
12
47
Feb 05, 1988 28 generic fighter pic Fujio Ozaki
win
UD
12
46
Aug 22, 1987 27 Mark Breland Mark Breland 24 18-0
win
TKO
11
45
Jun 05, 1987 27 generic fighter pic Norberto Bueno
win
KO
3
44
Feb 18, 1987 27 generic fighter pic Pedro Vilella
win
UD
10
43
Oct 30, 1986 27 generic fighter pic Roberto Mendez
win
TKO
4
42
Sep 19, 1986 27 generic fighter pic Dexter Smith
win
KO
5
41
May 18, 1986 26 generic fighter pic Johnny Bumphus
loss
TD
6
40
Apr 06, 1986 26 generic fighter pic Ralph Twinning
win
TKO
7
39
Jan 24, 1986 26 generic fighter pic Leo Davis
win
KO
2
38
Nov 22, 1985 26 Simon Brown Simon Brown 22 21-0
win
SD
12
37
Aug 07, 1985 25 generic fighter pic Reggie Miller
win
UD
10
36
Apr 26, 1985 25 Floyd Mayweather Sr. Floyd Mayweather Sr. 32 28-4-1
win
UD
12
35
Jun 15, 1984 24 generic fighter pic Pedro Vilella
loss
MD
12
34
Apr 17, 1984 24 generic fighter pic Lupe Aquino
win
UD
12
33
Feb 04, 1984 24 Donald Curry Donald Curry 22 17-0
loss
UD
15
32
Nov 26, 1983 24 generic fighter pic Bob Graddy
win
KO
3
31
Nov 10, 1983 24 generic fighter pic Sammy Rookard
win
TKO
5
30
Jul 24, 1983 23 generic fighter pic Tommy Ayers
win
MD
12
29
Apr 23, 1983 23 generic fighter pic Jose Baret
win
UD
12
28
Feb 05, 1983 23 generic fighter pic Jose Baret
win
KO
4
27
Jan 07, 1983 23 generic fighter pic Manuel Madera
win
KO
3
26
Oct 23, 1982 23 Donald Curry Donald Curry 21 14-0
loss
SD
12
25
Sep 10, 1982 23 generic fighter pic Inocencio De la Rosa
win
UD
10
24
Jul 17, 1982 22 generic fighter pic Kevin Morgan
win
TKO
1
23
Jun 05, 1982 22 generic fighter pic Babilah McCarthy
win
TKO
9
22
Apr 23, 1982 22 generic fighter pic Ricardo Raul Camoranesi
win
KO
3
21
Mar 22, 1982 22 generic fighter pic Jose Luis Santana
win
KO
1
20
Jan 29, 1982 22 generic fighter pic Danny Paul
win
UD
10
19
Aug 28, 1981 21 generic fighter pic Jack Morrell
win
TKO
2
18
Jun 25, 1981 21 generic fighter pic Juan Hidalgo
win
TKO
5
17
May 29, 1981 21 generic fighter pic Johnny Cooper
win
TKO
1
16
Apr 24, 1981 21 generic fighter pic Miguel Angel Hernandez
win
TKO
8
15
Mar 09, 1981 21 Floyd Mayweather Sr. Floyd Mayweather Sr. 28 19-2
win
UD
10
14
Feb 09, 1981 21 generic fighter pic Bruce Strauss
win
KO
2
13
Jan 16, 1981 21 generic fighter pic Ruby Ortiz
win
UD
10
12
Nov 25, 1980 21 generic fighter pic Curtis Taylor
win
UD
10
11
Nov 03, 1980 21 generic fighter pic Dave Bolden
win
TKO
3
10
Jun 20, 1980 20 generic fighter pic Benji Goldstone
win
TKO
5
9
May 23, 1980 20 generic fighter pic Eddie Campbell
win
UD
8
8
Apr 08, 1980 20 generic fighter pic Feliciano Cintron
win
TKO
6
7
Feb 28, 1980 20 generic fighter pic Frank Minnigan
win
TKO
4
6
Jan 09, 1980 20 generic fighter pic Charles Newell
win
KO
7
5
Nov 05, 1979 20 generic fighter pic John Saxton
win
TKO
4
4
Oct 17, 1979 20 generic fighter pic Hector Ortiz
win
PTS
6
3
Sep 27, 1979 20 generic fighter pic Jerry North
win
PTS
4
2
Sep 07, 1979 20 generic fighter pic Hubert Jackson
win
UD
4
1
Jul 27, 1979 19 generic fighter pic Tim LaValley
win
TKO
3
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