Shannon Briggs is excited right now, for two reasons. Firstly, as the 45 year-old has posted on his social media page, purse bids take place today for Briggs’ WBA heavyweight title fight with Fres Oquendo. And secondly, Briggs is hugely motivated to put his name in the record books as the first heavyweight to have won a world title in three separate decades.
Briggs, who became the lineal heavyweight champ with his disputed decision victory over living legend George Foreman in 1997, also won the WBO belt, with a stunning, last round KO of Siarhei Liakhovich in 2006. Now, if he can see off “Fast Fres” – a man Briggs has a great nickname for with “Fried Nintendo” (you have to laugh!) – the entertaining New Yorker will achieve something he says “they can’t take away from me.”
