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After Williams destroyed Kolle, he couldn’t get a good offer at middleweight so he moved down to light middleweight and fought Verno Phillips for the interim WBO title.

Phillips was a former three-time light middleweight title holder and one of the toughest fighters in the game. Despite fighting the best for his whole career he was only knocked out once in his fifth pro fight.

He was getting older but was coming off a split decision win over Cory Spinks in Spinks’ hometown of St. Louis.

Williams was determined to become the second fighter and first world class fighter to stop Phillips on national television.

That is what he did when the fight was stopped by the doctor after round eight. With this win he became a two division champion and won a fight in a third weight class.