Andrew Murray, a southpaw welterweight was on an 11 fight winning streak when he met Puerto Rican Moises Rivera at the Cliff Anderson on February 22, 1994. Murray, managed by Odinga Lumumba picked up the World Boxing Association (WBA) Fedelatin title via a seventh round Technical Knock Out (TKO).Murray became a professional in 1990 and would win the vacant Commonwealth title three years later. In August 1995 he challenged WBA champion Ike Quartey but lost by TKO in round four.
Moving up from welterweight to junior middleweight Murray shocked the boxing world when he crushed then world rated Michael Covington with a single blow in round three of a scheduled ten-rounder.
It took a single punch to lay Covington flat in the ring at the Foxwoods Resort, in Connecticut, USA on November 5, 1999. So devastating was the 28-year-old Murray, that the internationally respected Ring Magazine rated his victory as one of the best knockouts of the year.
Murray would have four more fights before being involved in a fatal car accident on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway on January 26, 2002. He was 30 years old.