THE TRAVELLING MAN
KEVIN JOHNSON knew the day before how it would go. “I’m going to knock him out in the late rounds,” he tells Boxing News with a cackle from his hotel in Magdeburg. “It’s going to be my welcome gift to the heavyweight division. I’ve fought the best punchers in the world and then they put a cruiserweight in front of me? That’s disrespectful.”
It had been fewer than two months since he had lost to Mariusz Wach. Now he was facing former IBF cruiserweight champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez.
Johnson had been in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, for all of 2020. “I’ve been here since last year,” he explains. “I’ve been coming over to Germany for three or four months at a time for the last four-to-five years, but I’m stuck here because of the pandemic. I love Gelsenkirchen, though; it reminds me of Asbury Park.”
Most of Johnson’s life is spent on the road. The way he tells it, he has fingers in many pies across the world. The simple question of where he lives is posed but
