Editing Bobby Czyz (section)

==Professional career==
Czyz had a quick start to his professional boxing career in the early 1980s, and he was soon in line for a shot against world [[middleweight]] champion [[Marvin Hagler]]. He had to start from scratch, however, after suffering a one-sided, 10-round loss at the hands of veteran [[Mustafa Hamsho]] on November 20, 1982 in a bout that was nationally televised.

Czyz went up in weight, put another string of wins together, and in September 1986, he finally found himself in a ring with an undefeated world champion, [[International Boxing Federation|IBF]] light heavyweight champion [[Slobodan Kačar]] (Olympic Gold medallist of 1980). Czyz beat him in five rounds.

Czyz made three defenses: a one-round defeat of David Sears, a see-saw second-round KO of Willie Edwards, and a fifth-round TKO of Jim McDonald - before taking on 'Prince' [[Charles Williams (boxer)|Charles Williams]] in October 1987.  Czyz scored an early knockdown of Williams, yet the challenger not only stayed in the fight, but also hammered shut Czyz' left eye en route to scoring a TKO victory and thus seizing the title after nine rounds of boxing.

Czyz then lost a decision to [[Dennis Andries]] in May 1988, followed by a couple of victories, in turn followed by two cracks at the world title in 1989.  Czyz, despite truly good efforts on his part in both challenges, lost both of them - a 12-round decision to Virgil Hill in North Dakota for the WBA version in March, and a 10th-round TKO loss to Williams in an IBF title rematch in June.

Czyz went on to stop then-undefeated [[Andrew Maynard (boxer)|Andrew Maynard]] in seven rounds (the second undefeated Gold medallist he KO'd) in June 1990, then jumped up to cruiserweight. He challenged [[Robert Daniels (boxer)|Robert Daniels]] for Daniels' [[World Boxing Association|WBA]] world cruiserweight championship in March 1991, and won a unanimous decision. Two defenses, against Bash Ali and [[Donny Lalonde]], were made (both by unanimous decision) before Czyz vacated the title.

In 1994, Czyz  became a television boxing analyst working alongside [[Steve Albert]] and [[Ferdie Pacheco]] whilst continuing his boxing career. The trio covered fights in many locations worldwide. In December 1994, he covered the first world title fight ever held in [[Ecuador]] as a member of [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]'s crew.

In 1996, he stepped up to the heavyweight division, but lost by [[knockout]] in five rounds to [[Evander Holyfield]] and quickly retired. Czyz fought one last time in 1998, losing by second-round TKO to South African [[Corrie Sanders]]. Czyz continued doing [[color commentary]] for Showtime, but was let go after pleading guilty to his fourth drunken-driving offense in six years after being caught speeding in [[Readington Township, New Jersey]]. Czyz's case received a lot of attention as he was a multiple repeat [[DUI]] case, and was a driver behind the NJ Assembly revisiting its legislation.<ref name="new-jersey1">[http://www.new-jersey.ws/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1703 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928041321/http://www.new-jersey.ws/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1703 |date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref> Czyz, who was a [[Raritan Township, New Jersey]] resident at the time, was given a six-month license suspension for each of his three drunken driving convictions in 1998, 1999 and 2000. It was discovered that he was sentenced improperly as a first-time offender after his fourth arrest, which occurred in February 2003 in Readington Township, where he was caught driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.14 percent. The state limit at that time was 0.10 percent.<ref name="new-jersey1"/>