REGGIE Ford collected his 11th defeat on April 29, 1983. Ford was knocked out by American Mark Medal in round five to take his record to 10-11-1.

Referee Louis Rivers counted him out at one minute and four seconds of the round. The Guyanese middleweight’s career was on a decline when he met Medal at the Felt Forum in New York.
It all started in April 1982 when the southpaw Ford fought Jamaican Mike McCallum. Ford lost by TKO in the fourth round and went on an eight-fight losing streak which ended with a first-round TKO loss to Matthew Hilton in Canada in April 1984.
A dedicated boxer, Ford never ducked an opponent and in an eventful career he matched gloves with the likes of Marvellous Marvin Hagler, Dave `Boy’ Green and Ayube Kalule to name a few. Ford ended a nine-year career when he was two months shy of 31 years.