Trey Lippe Morrison Returns to the Ring October 11th – Boxing News
By Jim Ellis
Photo by Patrick Richardson
A boxer from Topeka, Kansas, hopes to do what four previous opponents have tried to do: derail the Trey Lippe Morrison express.
The pair will battle in a four-round heavyweight main event at an Oct. 11 card at Buffalo Run Casino.
Lippe Morrison’s “Four State Franchise” teammates Jesse Cook and Jarrett Rouse will also be in action as will Lippe Morrison’s brother, Kinzie Witt.
The 5-11, 220-pound Foster has a background in mixed martial arts. His MMA record is not clear: one source has it at 7-6 while another has him at 6-7.
He is 2-5-1 as an amateur.
All four of Lippe Morrison’s wins have been by a devastating knockout.
He knocked out Kris Renty at 1:48 in the second round in his pro debut, then dropped Ronald Burchfield in 52 seconds of the first round, Marvin Babe in only 19 seconds and Emmit Woods with a crushing body shot at the 43-second mark of the first round in his most recent outing.
Cook (12-0, 8 Kos) will face what could be his stiffest test yet: P.J. Krupp, a New Orleans welterweight who has eight knockouts among his 17 wins. Krupp has lost seven times.
Rouse is transitioning to boxing after a career in kickboxing and mixed martial arts. His mother, Brenda Rouse, is a former world champion boxer and his father, Randy, is Lippe Morrison’s lead trainer.
Witt, from Bartlesville by way of Colcord and Jay, will be making his pro debut against Babe (0-4), who had lost to Witt’s brother on June 28 in Oklahoma City.
Witt and Lippe Morrison are sons of the late Tommy “The Duke” Morrison, a former world heavyweight boxing champ.
The fifth fight on the card pits Landon Dirks (2-2-1) of Springfield, Missouri, meets Eric Cason (2-2, 2 Kos) of Davenport, Iowa, in a four-round cruiserweight fight.
An original member of “The Four State Franchise” – Dillon Cook – will not fight on Oct. 11 while recovering from an elbow injury suffered prior to his six-round unanimous decision over Marteze Logan here on Aug. 16.