Beeghley Center, Youngstown, Ohio – Top Rank Boxing Promotion’s red-hot prospect Omar Henry finished out a great 2009 with his fifth first round stoppage victory of the year. After his professional debut in July of 2008, Henry has turned heads on Top Rank’s undercards with his explosive quick knockouts. 

His latest victim was Jessie Davis (11-16, 8 KOs) of Savannah, Tennessee.  In typical Omar Henry fashion, he immediately pounced on Davis at the opening bell landing punches with both hands to the head and body.  Davis absorbed the punishment for about a minute and a half before hitting the canvas for the first scored knockdown.  Getting up but never really recovering, Davis hit the canvas two more times while Omar was able to work on his uppercuts to the delight of the early arrivers for the Kelly Pavlik versus Miguel Espino card.

“I’m glad I got to use what I’ve been working on in the gym,” Henry stated. “With my trainers I’ve been practicing throwing combination left uppercut, right uppercut, followed by a straight right hand.  That’s exactly what I landed and dropped him with.”

Henry’s previous bout in Corpus Christi was a four round decision victory over Carlos Aballe.  It was Omar’s first time going the full distance and proved to be a learning experience in his young career.

“It was great in my last bout to get four rounds of work in, even though Aballe was a tough dude, awkward and I got cut with a head-butt,” Henry added.  “But I studied the video and we knew what I needed to work on in the gym.  I needed to attack the body more and use my uppercuts.  It was great that what we worked on in the gym on the hand pads and body bag, I was able to apply in this fight.”

In addition to working hard in the gym in preparation for his bouts, Omar has been busy outside the gym.  After completing his finals last week, Omar finished his semester course load with a perfect ledger of four A’s.  And during the recent campaign for Houston’s mayor, Omar spoke to prospective voters at political rallies about the importance of getting out and participating in elections which shape the future of our cities and communities.

Omar Henry is a twenty-two year old light middleweight who won the Texas Golden Gloves and USA championships regional before attending Northern Michigan University as part of the USOEC USA Boxing program.  He now is a full time student in Houston studying business.