‘Reno’ to retire at home next month
- Simba French
- 12 hrs ago
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Longing to fight at home, Bahamian professional boxer Tureano ‘Reno’ Johnson has emerged from a hiatus of over two years, looking to put on a show here in The Bahamas on Friday December 22. He is moving up three weight classes from his last fight, to cruiserweight, preparing for an exit from the sport, which he has been involved with since he was seven years old.
The venue is not known as yet, but Johnson knows that it will be a venue here at home. It will be announced later. He will be going up against Colombian Samuel Miller who has well over 50 bouts under his belt. Johnson has a 21-3-1 win/loss/draw record while Miller sports a 36-30-0 record. The fight card will feature four Dominicans, another Colombian, one American, one boxer from Cameroon and a Polish boxer.
“I started at home here in The Bahamas and it is where I would love to end, although I took my professional career abroad. Being able to fight home just once means a lot to me, knowing that this is where boxing began for me, and this is where it will end,” Johnson said. “I am definitely happy. My opponent has chosen me and I think he has made a big mistake. He sent a challenge out to me and I do feel as though I am more than ready and capable to take care of business against him. This is going to be a big highlight for me – to end my career against Miller here at home.”
The cruiserweight division is a strange weight class for Johnson, but he said that he feels
comfortable at that weight class. The cruiserweight boundaries are from 175 pounds to 200 pounds. The middleweight division is from 154-160 pounds.
“I found that throughout the year, the weight management hasn’t been the best for me. This is my last fight and I want to look better than I ever looked before. I feel stronger and faster. I feel much better as a cruiserweight than I did as a middleweight, where I was cutting a drastic amount of weight up to 40 pounds just to make 160 pounds. Now I am only cutting about 20 pounds which is around the category that I should be fighting in,” Johnson said.
At home, Johnson trains with his sister Kayla Johnson and Raynaldo Minus as he prepares for the bout next month. He said it is difficult for him training at home, citing no proper facilities and sparring partners.
“It has been a rocky road with difficulties training at home where the facilities are not acceptable for the likes of myself, a professional fighter. As to going abroad, the funding for that has been very limited for myself. It’s been hard, but I just came from Cuba using up the last that I had to go. I had an exciting and great successful training camp there. That is where I started the training camp. I was hoping to head over to New York to complete my training camp, but unfortunately, funding is not allowing that. I’m going to take advantage of this moment to train at home. … There are no sparring partners, at least for me to spar at home, but I’ll be ready.”
The last time Johnson was in the ring was back in October 2020 when he went up against Mexican Jaime Munguia in the middleweight division. The Bahamian lost the fight on a stoppage, receiving an uppercut to the face in the fifth round. Since the Munguia fight, Johnson has been home.
“The loss of my last fight put me in a bit of a turmoil as I was very depressed. I took some time off just to relax. I quickly got back on board with my youth program, which is a ‘Big Brother’ ministry that has been taking a lot of my time. I’ve been taking young men and young women through the eyes of boxing,” Johnson stated.
Through it all, Johnson said he is grateful for his sponsors, namely K.S.Moses, Aquapure, Food Kingdom, Original Patties and Transformations Landscape Development.
- Simba French
- 12 hrs ago
- 0
Longing to fight at home, Bahamian professional boxer Tureano ‘Reno’ Johnson has emerged from a hiatus of over two years, looking to put on a show here in The Bahamas on Friday December 22. He is moving up three weight classes from his last fight, to cruiserweight, preparing for an exit from the sport, which he has been involved with since he was seven years old.
The venue is not known as yet, but Johnson knows that it will be a venue here at home. It will be announced later. He will be going up against Colombian Samuel Miller who has well over 50 bouts under his belt. Johnson has a 21-3-1 win/loss/draw record while Miller sports a 36-30-0 record. The fight card will feature four Dominicans, another Colombian, one American, one boxer from Cameroon and a Polish boxer.
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“I started at home here in The Bahamas and it is where I would love to end, although I took my professional career abroad. Being able to fight home just once means a lot to me, knowing that this is where boxing began for me, and this is where it will end,” Johnson said. “I am definitely happy. My opponent has chosen me and I think he has made a big mistake. He sent a challenge out to me and I do feel as though I am more than ready and capable to take care of business against him. This is going to be a big highlight for me – to end my career against Miller here at home.”
The cruiserweight division is a strange weight class for Johnson, but he said that he feels
comfortable at that weight class. The cruiserweight boundaries are from 175 pounds to 200 pounds. The middleweight division is from 154-160 pounds.
“I found that throughout the year, the weight management hasn’t been the best for me. This is my last fight and I want to look better than I ever looked before. I feel stronger and faster. I feel much better as a cruiserweight than I did as a middleweight, where I was cutting a drastic amount of weight up to 40 pounds just to make 160 pounds. Now I am only cutting about 20 pounds which is around the category that I should be fighting in,” Johnson said.
At home, Johnson trains with his sister Kayla Johnson and Raynaldo Minus as he prepares for the bout next month. He said it is difficult for him training at home, citing no proper facilities and sparring partners.
“It has been a rocky road with difficulties training at home where the facilities are not acceptable for the likes of myself, a professional fighter. As to going abroad, the funding for that has been very limited for myself. It’s been hard, but I just came from Cuba using up the last that I had to go. I had an exciting and great successful training camp there. That is where I started the training camp. I was hoping to head over to New York to complete my training camp, but unfortunately, funding is not allowing that. I’m going to take advantage of this moment to train at home. … There are no sparring partners, at least for me to spar at home, but I’ll be ready.”
The last time Johnson was in the ring was back in October 2020 when he went up against Mexican Jaime Munguia in the middleweight division. The Bahamian lost the fight on a stoppage, receiving an uppercut to the face in the fifth round. Since the Munguia fight, Johnson has been home.
“The loss of my last fight put me in a bit of a turmoil as I was very depressed. I took some time off just to relax. I quickly got back on board with my youth program, which is a ‘Big Brother’ ministry that has been taking a lot of my time. I’ve been taking young men and young women through the eyes of boxing,” Johnson stated.
Through it all, Johnson said he is grateful for his sponsors, namely K.S.Moses, Aquapure, Food Kingdom, Original Patties and Transformations Landscape Development.