The Magic Man's Curtain Call

Antonio Tarver bursted on the scene almost six years ago when he closed his eyes, threw a hail mary and knocked out Roy Jones Jr to become the Light Heavyweight champion and boxing’s flavor of the month. At 42 and clearly at the end of his career, Tarver is hoping a trip up to Heavyweight will get him out of the shadow of his much more famous conquered foe, a shadow he has been under his entire career.