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RUBIN "MR. HOLLYWOOD" WILLIAMS

 

Record: 19-1 (11 KO)

Height: 6'
Weight: 160 lb.
Amateur Record: Over 100 fights.

Michigan State Champion

Ranked #6 by the NABA

Hollywood Power

 

Rubin Williams began boxing at age 7 and somewhere between then and now, was given the moniker "Mr. Hollywood."  Rubin is the showman of TEAMCANNON and is true to his nickname both in and out of the ring. He often fights with his hands low, driving his coaches crazy, but exciting the crowd.
 

After graduating from Osborn highschool in Detroit, Rubin started a musical career as a rapper. He has performed at the Olympia Stadium and at the State Theater, once opening for Esham.
 

The young Detroiter began boxing at the age of 7.  When he turned 14, Rubin began competing in amateur competitions and won the Diamond Gloves Tournament in 1994. Five entries in Golden Gloves competitions yielded five consecutive championships for "Mr. Hollywood." He also won the Michigan State Championship three times.
 

Despite the impressive resume he has amassed in the unpaid ranks, Rubin's style has always been far more suited to professional boxing. When given the opportunity to turn pro with Teamcannon, he could not wait to shed the headgear and see how hard he would be able to hit with the lighter gloves.
 

As a middleweight, Williams is smaller than his teammates, but as he points out, he's been fighting Rydell and Leo every day for over 15 years.  He thinks he IS a heavyweight!
In his sixth professional fight, with less than 11 professional rounds under his belt, Rubin won the Michigan State Title by KO in the third round against Warren Jackson (8-1) of Detroit.

In September 2002, Rubin faced off with former IBO Super Middleweight Champion Karl Willis 24-13.  Rubin dropped Willis 5 times, winning by unanimous decision.

In January 2003, Williams dropped to 160 pounds and won the Midwest Boxing Federation Middleweight Championship.
 

Williams Now Hip-Hopping
on Middleweights!

January 9, 2003

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Bangin' in Motown. It's time to throw down.
Teamcannon, the big guns, lookin' for a showdown.
Rockin' Rye with the speed you need.
Paco with jabs that blast.
Hollywood with a overhand right,
that will lay you on your a--!

 

Many of the world’s greatest boxers have said they could hear an unwritten song in their heads while they fought. An excellent sense of rhythm can be the ‘certain something’ between a world class fighter and just an opponent. While Joe Frazier, Ray Robinson, Oscar De La Hoya and especially Roy Jones are all boxers who have made forays into the music world, Teamcannon’s Rubin “Hollywood” Williams, 16-0 (9) may be the first to do it the other way around.

 

Williams, a former protégée and friend of Eminem and the members of D12 (his Detroit group), left what was shaping up to be a promising career of rapping lyrics to try rapping skulls full time. “I stayed down the street from Eminem back then,” he reminisces. “I’d see him every day. I lived on Dresden and 7 mile and he lived on Dresden and 8 Mile. I know the whole D12 group. Me and Proof (D12 member Big Proof a.k.a. Dirty Harry) were rap partners and we all shared the same studio time. I’m still friends with a lot of those guys.”

 

Now a 25-year-old undefeated power puncher and a member of T3, the red-hot Teamcannon trio, Williams says he has fully focused on the sport of boxing that he didn’t take as seriously in the past. An indication of which was his recent non-shady decision to slim down to the middleweight division after fighting as heavy as 180 in some of his earlier contests. “I always thought I could make it if I worked hard enough. I just started trying to change my eating habits a little bit. Then the weight started coming down. I started walking around at Super Middle, so I said hey; I can come down to 160 from there, no problem.”

 

While the decision to clean out his closet and campaign at a lower weight is good news for the former five-time Golden Gloves and three-time Michigan State champion, it might not be a purple pill for the world’s other middleweights. “I think I’m ready for anybody especially at 160. I can’t wait to see how I feel once I get there fighting. I’ll be stronger than anybody at that weight and ready for anybody that wants to fight. I’ll be taking the power I had at Super Middle with me.”

 

Known originally around Detroit by the boxing nickname “Murder Man,” Williams says it was at one of the Golden Gloves tournaments he fought in that he was given the moniker that stuck: Hollywood. “My first name was Murder Man because I was a fierce puncher in the amateurs. The Hollywood stuff came from an amateur tournament. (Detroit Golden Gloves official) Glen Hirsch said ‘you look like a movie star, you don’t need to be boxing,’ and then he started calling me that. He gave me the name, I wanted Murder Man,” he laughed.

 

Williams has been paired up with veteran Mike McFail on the undercard of this Friday’s “Revenge for the Hitman” main event featuring teammate Rydell Booker vs. former world champion Uriah Grant at DeCarlo’s Banquet and Convention Center in Warren, Michigan. While McFail isn’t the caliber of opponent he says he would like to be facing, the young Detroiter asserts that he is happy just staying busy until his big chance comes along. “I just heard he’s durable,” he said of McFail. “He’s been the distance with a lot of veteran opponents. Actually, I can be fighting a step above him right now, but he’s ok for now. I’m coming along fine I think. I think everybody‘s doing beautiful. (Manager John) Mr. Carlisle is doing a great job.”

 

While he has given up his mike for now, Williams says he’ll someday return to music. “I plan on getting back into it. I still write a new rap every other day. I’m not like Roy Jones; a boxer turned rapper, because I was really, really into it before boxing. It was a hard choice to make, I chose boxing, but it was hard. As soon as I make enough money to get me some breathing room, I know a lot of people in rap. Boxing is really what I want to do, but as far as when I’m steady, and I have time to do other things, rapping will be the first thing I do.”

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