Antonio Tarver is a very good salesman. “The Magic Man” has always gotten by on a mix of guile, oral dexterity in and out of the ring, intelligence and a bombastic, larger-than-life personality.
Tarver meets Steve Cunningham this Friday in a 12-round WBC heavyweight title eliminator set to air live on PBC on Spike from Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Before he does, however, he will try convincing anyone willing to listen that he’s still the same Antonio Tarver he was 11 years ago, when he knocked out Roy Jones Jr.
Tarver (31-6, 22 KOs) wants people to look past the fact that he’s now a 46-year-old grandfather.