By Lem Satterfield, FanHouse
Southpaw, heavyweight contender, Tony Thompson, Washington, D.C. scored a fourth-round knockout of Owen Beck, of Nashville, Tenn., on Friday night at the Omni New Daisy Theater, in Memphis.
In victory, the 38-year-old Thompson scored his third straight knockout, improving his record to 34-2, with 22 stoppages, dropping Beck to 29-5, with 20 knockouts.
Thompson floored Beck in the first round with a right hook.
Thompson was coming off of December's ninth-round knockout over Chazz Witherspoon (26-2, 18 KOs), Philadelphia, Pa.
In July of 2008, Thompson was knocked out in the 11th-round by Wladimir Klitschko (54-3, 48 KOs), the present WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight champion.
Source: boxing.fanhouse.com
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