{"id":898,"date":"2010-01-30T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T17:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:24:33","slug":"a-remarkable-journey-through-boxing-the-career-of-dennis-the-magician-milton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"A Remarkable Journey through Boxing \u2013 The Career of Dennis \u201cThe Magician\u201d Milton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=898\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=898\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-840\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Dennis Milton Header\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Dennis-Milton-Header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em><strong>I was just blessed enough to get into boxing and once I did I was able to go around the world and be somebody that other people looked up to.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong> \u2013 Dennis Milton<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I remember my first glimpse of Gerald \u201cThe G-Man\u201d McClellan. It took him less than a round to walk right through John \u201cThe Beast\u201d Mugabi back in 1991, and from that moment on I was hooked and in awe at the unmistakable combination of destructiveness and talent. The obvious self confidence and momentum behind him made it inconceivable that he was summarily routed just a few short years before, as if by some act of magic, but indeed such had been the case. Digging a little deeper, the realization hit me and the pieces came together. That first loss was handed to him by Dennis \u201cThe Magician\u201d Milton, a diligent fighter who had paid his dues and toiled in the shadows for years. He had been brought in as the opponent but took virtually everyone by surprise, demonstrating the drive and the talent that would one day take him to a title shot.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I first noticed \u201cThe Magician\u201d in 1989, having watched him take Michael \u201cThe Silk\u201d Olajide, a talented contender who had at one time fought for a world title at middleweight and later would go on to challenge for one at super middleweight, to the very brink. It was the type of win that made you raise an eyebrow and take notice. When I put two and two together, I noticed that it had indeed taken an act of magic to turn back \u201cThe G-Man\u201d, and that Dennis Milton had been the magician that pulled it off. It was a privilege to sit down and speak with Dennis \u201cThe Magician\u201d Milton about his unlikely beginning that led to a remarkable journey through the amateur and professional ranks of boxing. Over the course of that discussion, I picked-up on his positive nature and what I sensed to be a good and giving spirit to those around him, and that regardless of the victories and disappointments, this was a man whose feet were firmly planted on the ground.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MP: Starting off, for your fans that followed your career through the late-80\u2019s and into the mid-nineties, what are you doing today?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As of right now I have a restaurant up in Mount Vernon, New York. It\u2019s called J&amp;D\u2019s Tasty Fish Chips which is right across the street from City Hall. I\u2019m also getting into real estate. I\u2019m actually starting out as a real estate investor. I should end up doing pretty good. My business will be online shortly; I know we start advertising in November. Right now I work for an advertising company, I\u2019m their concierge. I\u2019m doing fine.<\/span><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MP: What made you decide to become involved with boxing and where did the nickname \u201cThe Magician\u201d come from?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I was part of the Boys Club. We were a group of kids that went to the city-wide billiard championships to compete playing pool. We lost in the finals. We were the runner-ups down in Manhattan.<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">After the loss in the finals we decided we all wanted to stay together. Over at the PAL organization they were starting up a martial arts program, so we left the Boys Club to join the karate team. When we got there it hadn\u2019t started yet and they had boxing going on. So we sat down and watched and we became so interested in boxing we forgot about karate and decided to go into that. It wasn\u2019t my original intention to go into boxing because I grew up as a kid cherishing Bruce Lee.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MP: You eventually won the New York Golden Gloves championship four times, as well as the 165lb. Open Championship in 1981, defeating future three-division world champion Iran Barkley and the 156lb. Open Championship in \u201982, \u201983 and \u201984. What are you recollections of this period?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It was a good time and I fought a lot of good guys. We had a lot of fun. We met a lot of people that just by chance I am now back in contact with online because of Facebook. I\u2019ve been on Facebook now for maybe about a month and I\u2019ve spoken with guys like Paul Gonzalez who was the first Mexican-American to win the gold medal back in 1984. Before Facebook I hadn\u2019t spoken with him in 25-years. I\u2019m also now in touch with Henry Tillman. He like Paul is on the other side of the country. Wow! The recollections and everything. It\u2019s just fantastic! The internet is fantastic. That\u2019s why I\u2019m taking my business to the internet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MP: Turning professional in 1985, you went 11-2-1 before a breakthrough win over future WBC\/WBO Middleweight champion Gerald \u201cThe G-Man\u201d McClellan. What is your recollection of McClellan and at the time did you believe that the victory would propel you toward bigger opportunities?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Yes, I did think it would open up bigger opportunities. The fight itself, I remember it, I have a tape of it somewhere although I haven\u2019t watched it in years. Gerald McClellan was without a doubt the most dangerous fighter at that time in boxing after Thomas Hearns. He was the next Thomas Hearns. I think that had he been able to stick around the boxing world would have been different where Roy Jones JR was concerned. Both Roy and Gerald were two very competitive individuals and they knew each other from the amateurs. I don\u2019t think, and I could be entirely wrong, but I don\u2019t think Roy would have had as much success in the ring if Gerald was around. He was the type of individual that could change a fight with a matter of just one punch. He was the most dangerous guy I ever fought, without a doubt.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MP: Does that include Julian Jackson?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Yes, including Julian Jackson. But Gerald McClellan, definitely to me, if you put both of them in front of me and asked me who I would fight and who I wouldn\u2019t want to fight \u2013 I wouldn\u2019t want to face Gerald McClellan again.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MP: Next came a decisive unanimous decision over perennial division policeman Robbie Sims and after that a close split decision win over former top contender and IBF Middleweight title challenger Michael \u201cThe Silk\u201d Olajide. You seemed to really have it going on at this point. What are your recollections of this period and did you feel you could make it all of the way to a world championship?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Michael Olajide match was a very tough fight. After the fight I went to the hospital for dehydration. I became very dehydrated in that fight. That had a lot to do with my physical decline after that point in my career. Olajide was, to me, in my personal opinion, the most conditioned fighter I ever faced in my career. There were two guys in a far as conditioning that stood out, Bernard Hopkins and Olajide. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MP: When you faced an up and coming Bernard \u201cThe Executioner\u201d Hopkins back in 1992, did you think he\u2019d go on to become what he is today?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">No. The only thing I remember about Bernard Hopkins was that he was in very good shape, he was very crafty and that he basically fought dirty. Hopkins was extremely crafty. He was like the new Mongoose. There\u2019s the old Mongoose, Archie Moore, and he\u2019s like the new Mongoose.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">That\u2019s what I most remember about him. I don\u2019t want to belittle Hopkins because of some of the things he does. But I do think he does do things that aren\u2019t necessarily in the rule book, and I knew this way back when. By the same token, the dirtiest fighter I ever was in with was Michael Olajide. We both were fouling. We threw the rule book out. I don\u2019t see anything really wrong with what Hopkins does because the other guy has the opportunity to do it as well. If the referee is not going to take action and penalize your foe for using dirty tactics, you have to always be in control of the situation if you can\u2019t count on the ref to do things.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MP: You challenged a prime 44-1 Julian Jackson for the WBC Middleweight title in September 1991, perhaps the hardest puncher in middleweight division history. What happened?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I was totally confident in beating Jackson, I just got caught early. Julian beat me in one round. The thing was if I had made it back to my corner at the end of the first round I knew I could have beat him. When we clinched I got to feel his weight, his strength and what not and I decided that if I made it back to the corner I\u2019d be alright. There were things that were going on in camp that I never disclosed and I\u2019m not going to disclose them now. There were too many things going on in my life at that time and Julian did what he was known for doing. No excuses whatsoever. He was the better man that night.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MP: Your final bout was against former WBA Welterweight champion Aaron \u201cSuperman\u201d Davis in 1995. Tell us about it.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I always saw Davis around. I never really paid much attention to him. I knew he beat Mark Breland for the welterweight title rather easily in a rather ugly bout. I never really put him at the same level that I was at in as far as his boxing skills even though he had become a world champion. If you watch our fight, from what I can recall, I pretty much out boxed him from the first bell but by then my legs were no longer any good, and that had started a few fights earlier in the Olajide bout with the extreme dehydration. That was what changed my career. It just didn\u2019t work out; it didn\u2019t come out the way we expected it to. The Davis bout was the end of my professional career as a boxer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I\u2019m still in the game today. I\u2019ve got a couple of kids I\u2019m working with at the amateur level and I\u2019m very excited about them. I have the opportunity to be able to be somebody that can be an inspiration for others and to guide them away from people that aren\u2019t going to do right by them. One more thing I want to make mention of; my favorite fighter in the game is Oscar De La Hoya. I never really watched him as a young professional coming up. I remember him from when I lived in Las Vegas. A young kid before he went to the Olympics in the Top Rank Gym. He was the only amateur, other than Floyd Mayweather JR. that I remember. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I truly think that Oscar is a blessing to boxing because he\u2019s done something that none of the other guys before him, including Sugar Ray Leonard, really did. That is to become more involved in the promotional aspect of the game and help young, struggling fighters who are trying to make it in the game to go on and do something with their lives, as well as the many positive things he has done in his community. He\u2019s helped rebuild it and is giving young kids the chance to do something with their lives. I have so much respect for him for doing all of that where the other guys may have done some things but they didn\u2019t do it to the level Oscar did. Because of his example, other fighters are now going out and promoting; grabbing a piece of boxing rather than letting people that don\u2019t really care or don\u2019t really know anything about the sport go on to become filthy rich off of it, without really knowing the sport and the individuals competing in it on a day in and day out basis.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MP: It sounds like you\u2019ve made peace with boxing and that you actively give back to it.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Definitely. My initial goal wasn\u2019t boxing. I was just blessed enough to get into boxing and once I did I was able to go around the world and be somebody that other people looked up to. A lot of times I\u2019ll be somewhere or even on Facebook, people will tell me they enjoyed watching me. I just found some cards some kid out in California had sent to me, asking me to please sign them, telling me he was a big fan. That\u2019s a shot in the arm for me. It shows that I did have some type of affect in the sport as far as some people are concerned. That\u2019s very important. The sport changed my life. I could have gone in another direction and I didn\u2019t go that way and because of that I am fortunate enough to be talking to you and talking about my career, talking about something good.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>MP: Is there anything you would like to say to RSR readers in closing?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I just would like to thank everyone for supporting me and those that got me interested in boxing and for those that help to keep it alive. There are a lot of things that are going on in the sport that isn\u2019t good but I think that the sport will continue to survive so long as we have good young blood coming into it. Also, it\u2019s very important to have people, fans like yourself, who are getting the stories out there for the public to read. Be it on the internet, in print or on television, it\u2019s very important that those stories get out there and are told in a way that is truthful for the fans as well as for the athlete. One last thing; I would like to acknowledge that I was blessed to have Manard Stovall as my boxing trainer. Manard like so many others trainers around the world, do not get enough credit for the work they do. I just wanted to say THANK YOU MANARD.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">You can visit Dennis Milton\u2019s business \u201cIBUYISALEHOUSES, LLC.\u201d The website is <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ibuyisalehouses.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">IBUYISALEHOUSES.COM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. The company helps people buy, sell, lease and rent houses. They can be contacted at <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(347) 963-9970<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> or visit <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ibuyisalehouses.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">ibuyisalehouses.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> next month.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<pre>Dennis Milton\r\nNickname: \u201cThe Magician\u201d\r\nDivision: Middleweight\r\nProfessional Record:  16-5-1, 22 KO's\r\n\r\nDate       Opponent                  Location                  Result<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1985-07-11 Greg Jones New York, USA <strong>W<\/strong> TKO 4<br \/>\n1985-08-29 Willie Monroe New York, USA <strong>W<\/strong> UD 6<br \/>\n1985-11-07 Cortez Mobley Atlantic City, USA <strong>W<\/strong> UD 6<br \/>\n1985-12-06 Mario Davis New York, USA <strong>W<\/strong> KO 4<br \/>\n1986-04-03 Ali Bey New York, USA <strong>W<\/strong> UD 6<br \/>\n1986-05-22 Ismael Negron Atlantic City, USA <strong>L<\/strong> SD 6<br \/>\n1986-08-14 Gary Tibbs New York, USA <strong>W<\/strong> PTS 6<br \/>\n1986-11-19 Fred Savage Richmond Hill, USA <strong>W<\/strong> KO 1<br \/>\n1986-12-26 Mike Peoples West Orange, USA <strong>W<\/strong> UD 6<\/p>\n<p>1987-02-21 Sam Leonard Atlantic City, USA <strong>W<\/strong> PTS 6<br \/>\n1987-06-05 Tommy Davenport East Rutherford, USA <strong>W<\/strong> TKO 7<br \/>\n1987-08-01 Angel Sindo East Rutherford, USA <strong>L<\/strong> TKO 5<br \/>\n1988-10-25 Pedro Rivera Atlantic City, USA <strong>D<\/strong> PTS 4<\/p>\n<p>1989-05-30 Pedro Rivera Atlantic City, USA <strong>W<\/strong> UD 8<br \/>\n1989-06-24 Gerald McClellan Atlantic City, USA <strong>W<\/strong> PTS 6<br \/>\n1989-09-12 Robbie Sims Atlantic City, USA <strong>W<\/strong> UD 10<br \/>\n1989-12-01 Michael Olajide Albany, USA <strong>W<\/strong> SD 10<br \/>\n1990-03-08 Jose Antonio Martinez Atlantic City, USA <strong>W<\/strong> UD 10<\/p>\n<p>1991-06-28 Pat Brennan Las Vegas, USA <strong>W<\/strong> TKO 2<br \/>\n1991-09-14 Julian Jackson Las Vegas, USA <strong>L<\/strong> KO 1<br \/>\n<strong>WBC Middleweight Title<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1992-01-31 Bernard Hopkins Philadelphia, USA <strong>L<\/strong> TKO 4<\/p>\n<p>1995-01-14 Aaron Davis Atlantic City, USA <strong>L<\/strong> TKO 3<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barry Livingston 360 Conversation: My Three Sons,  Movies, TV, Charles M. 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