Michael Bentt Net Worth is
$15 Million

Mini Biography

Given birth to in London, Britain, to Jamaican parents and raised in Queens, NY,Michael attended Northhampton University in Bethlehem, Pa after retiring from boxing. Analyzed journalism and performing. As Northampton’s 1st Artist-in-Residence performed the title part of ‘Othello’ within the colleges 2003 creation. Michael was the main topic of Anna Deavere Smith’s “Skipping Rope,” that was section of her night of ‘journalistic portraits and sketches’ in NY City’s Carnegie Hall. After retiring from boxing in 1994, signed up for Northampton University where he contributed articles on various subjects towards the campus newspaper. One of the topics protected: the murder of Tupac Shakur and Evander Holyfield’s resounding knockout triumph of “Iron” Mike Tyson in 1996. His function eventually made an appearance in the brand new York Daily Information as well as the HBO Boxing site. His article “Anatomy of the Knockout” featured in “Bert Sugar’s FightGame” (see Bert Randolph Sugars) resulted in a chance to audition for and get the coveted part Charles “Sonny” Liston (Sonny Liston) in Michael Mann’s Ali (2001). Was the captain of the united states Country wide Boxing team that competed within the inaugural Moscow Godwill Games as well as the 1987 Skillet Am Games. Furthermore to his function of Sonny Liston in Ali (2001), also served because the key sparring partner and assistant trainer for Can Smith in Smith’s Academy Award nominated portrayal of Muhammad Ali. In addition has instructed Terence Blanchard, Damon Dash, Large D, Paul Schulze, Harold Perrineau, and Anna Deavere Smith amongst others in the virtues and great things about getting “fighting with each other fit.” Studied acting using the late Tina Silk. Four months after scoring a surprising and decisive initial round knockout on the heavily popular Tommy Morrison, was himself KO’d in seven rounds in his last fight in March of 1994, the consequence of which still left him within a coma for 96 hours. In the match that led to his being put into a coma: “I nearly paid the best price for an instant that allowed me personally to briefly realize my full potential being a boxer. If obtaining dismantled to the idea of near loss of life in my own last combat was the purchase price I had to cover a success over Tommy Morrison, I’ll under no circumstances question the price tag on success.”

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