Art Jimmerson was a boxer, based in St. Louis, Missouri, who competed at super middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight. He was active as a boxer from 1985 through 2002. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A weight division in professional boxing, first established in the 1980s but made popular in the 1990s by British superstars Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn who took over from Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard as long-reigning WBO and WBC world Super-Middleweight champions respectively. ... In boxing, the light heavyweight division is the weight division between cruiserweight over 175 pounds (79. ... Cruiserweight is a weight class in boxing where previously contestants weighed between 176 and 190 pounds. ... Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. ...
On November 12th, 1993 Jimmerson competed in UFC 1, an early mixed martial arts competition, losing to Royce Gracie while wearing one boxing glove. He tapped out after being taken to the ground despite not being in a submission hold. This was his one and only MMA fight. UFC 1: The Beginning was the first mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. ... Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a recently emerged combat sport in which a wide variety of fighting techniques are used, including striking and grappling. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
When, in November 1993, Jimmerson competed at UFC 1 he had a professional boxing record of 29-5. He finished his boxing career, in 2002, with a record of 33-18. UFC 1: The Beginning was the first mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. ...
At once the oddest ball among his works and a full-vent treatment of themes common to Dog and Gringos, a clearinghouse of obscurantist scribblings and a satire that skewers without malice, Portis’s sprawling third novel loosely follows the life of Lamar Jimmerson, whose eventual sedentary existence is in perverse contrast to the typical Portis rambler.
Jimmerson’s destiny crystallizes after the First World War, when a grateful derilect gives him a booklet crammed with Greek and triangles—an Nth-generation copy of the Codex Pappus, containing the wisdom of lost Atlantis.
Lamar Jimmerson and most of the Gnomons in Masters of Atlantis can’t form mature emotional attachments; Jimmerson barely notices as his wife leaves him and his son avoids him.
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