Brian Brunette

Brian Brunette is a retired junior middleweight professional boxer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Personal life

Brunette is a member of the Brunette family of boxers, three brothers who are co-proprietors of Brunette's Boxing Gym in Saint Paul. Brian Brunette is the business manager for the gym.[1]

Professional career

Brunette made his professional debut on July 7, 1980 with a second round knockout of Wayne Grant on the undercard of the Larry Holmes-Scott LeDoux match at Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. Brunette won his first 23 fights, 17 of them by knockout, including bouts with 63-43-3 Bruce Strauss and a majority decision win against 22-4 Gary Holmgren to take the Minnesota junior middleweight title before a crowd of 2,629.[2]

On September 6, 1986, Brunette squared off against undefeated champion a legend and a queen(46-0)[3] Patrizio Oliva in Campania, Italy for Oliva's WBA light welterweight title; Brunette lost by a TKO in the third round of a scheduled fifteen round bout, when, "Brunette’s manager--his brother, Tom--stepped into the fray to protect Brunette (23-1) from a hail of lefts and rights by Oliva (47-0)."[4][5]

Three months later Brunette returned to the ring for one last fight, defeating middleweight Billy Travers by fifth-round TKO. It was his final professional fight, as he retired at the age of 28. At the end of his career, Brunette had compiled a record of 24-1 with 18 wins coming by knockout which was very reflecting on his life.[6]

Professional boxing record
24 Wins (18 knockouts, 6 decisions), 1 Loss (1 knockout, 0 decisions) [7]
Result Record Opponent Type Round Date Location Notes
Win -- Billy Travers TKO 5 26/12/1986 Key West High School, Key West, Florida, United States Referee stopped the bout at 0:28 of the fifth round.
Loss 46-0 Patrizio Oliva TKO 3 06/09/1986 Napoli, Italy WBA World Light Welterweight Title. Bout stopped at 2:38 of the third round after Brunette's manager jumped into the ring to protect fighter from punishment.
Win 32-12-2 Ezequiel "Cocoa" Sanchez KO 7 13/05/1986 Bloomington, Minnesota, United States
Win -- Lalo Gimenez KO 3 31/01/1986 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States Lalo knocked out at 1:22 of the third round.
Win 0-2 Jim "Preacher" Freeman TKO 3 26/12/1985 Turnberry Isle Resort and Club, Miami Beach, Florida, United States Referee stopped the bout at 2:10 of the third round.
Win 9-8 Steve "Shrink" Mitchell UD 10 10/09/1985 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Win 15-2 Ken Larson TKO 2 29/05/1985 Holiday Star Theater, Merrillville, Indiana, United States
Win 13-2-1 Rudy Fuentes KO 2 22/11/1984 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States Fuentes knocked out at 1:10 of the second round.
Win 13-9-3 Trevor Evelyn PTS 10 08/08/1984 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Win 0-3 Greg "Harper" Collins KO 1 13/05/1984 Highland, Indiana, United States
Win 22-4 Gary Holmgren MD 10 01/02/1984 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States Minnesota Light Middleweight Title. 97-97, 97-96, 96-95. "The Brawl for it All" in St. Paul is regarded as one of the Greatest Fights in the History of MN Boxing.
Win 63-43-4 Bruce Strauss TKO 6 08/12/1983 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Win 10-12-1 Larry Mayes TKO 2 26/10/1983 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Win 0-9 Billy Doyle KO 2 26/08/1983 Belcourt, North Dakota, United States
Win 9-4-2 Mike "The Spike" Pollitt TKO 4 23/07/1983 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Win -- Steve Roake KO 2 07/05/1983 Fargo, North Dakota, United States
Win 4-16 Tony Akbar Taylor TKO 5 12/11/1981 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Win 2-7-2 Larry "Psycho" Ward PTS 8 06/05/1981 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Win 0-5-1 Nate Lenoir KO 2 26/02/1981 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Win 8-18-2 Charlie Peterson PTS 6 21/01/1981 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Win 1-18 Dale "Flash" Gordon PTS 4 09/12/1980 Warren, Ohio, United States
Win 0-1 Darrell Ned Miller TKO 2 11/11/1980 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States Referee stopped the bout at 2:06 of the second round.
Win 1-1 Donnie "American Idol" Williams KO 1 23/09/1980 Atkinson Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Win -- Rocky Trampler KO 2 24/07/1980 St. James Civic Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Win 0-1 Wayne Grant KO 2 07/07/1980 Metropolitan Sports Center, Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

Notes
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  2. "Gary Holmgren vs. Brian Brunette - Boxrec Boxing Encyclopaedia". Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
  3. https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/4575
  4. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-09-07-sp-12405-story.html
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Y2LT3LNjQ
  6. https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/23261
  7. https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/23261
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