On January 7, 2006, Jean-Marc Mormeck (31-2, 21 KOs), the cruiserweight WBA (Unified), WBC, and The Ring champion, and the cruiserweight IBF champion O'Neil Bell (25-1-1, 23 KOs), meet in a title-unification fight.
Jean-Marc Mormeck is coming in to the fight on a 28-fight win streak with a 63% KO rate; his last fight was a unanimous decision win over Wayne Braithwaite, 9 months and 5 days ago. O'Neil Bell is on a 7-fight win streak with a 85% KO rate, with his last fight being a 11th round KO win over Sebastiaan Rothmann, 4 months and 12 days ago.
The winning odds are at 69.6-30.4 in favor of O'Neil Bell, but it is going to be a hard-earned victory. Jean-Marc Mormeck is going to put on an exceptional fight, Bell better be prepared for one of the toughest fights of his life.
O'Neil Bell stopped Jean-Marc Mormeck via KO in the 10th round of the 12-round world-title fight and unified the WBA (Unified), WBC, The Ring, and IBF cruiserweight titles. Bell improves his record to 26-1-1 (24 KOs), while Mormeck adds a loss to his record at 31-3.