BERBIC. always getting into trouble with the law

Former World Boxing Council (WBC) Heavyweight champion, Jamaican Trevor Berbic, is to be deported from the United States this week, the Sunday Observer has learnt.

"We have all the documentation for clearing him to land in Jamaica, it's just a matter of time for him now," the security attaché at the Jamaican Embassy in Washington DC, Assistant Commissioner of Police Errol Strong told the Sunday Observer late last week.

Strong said the former boxer was being held in Khrome Detention Centre in Miami, Florida.
Berbic, 52, was born in Portland. He was convicted in May 1992 of sexual offence and battery committed in Florida in February of that year.
Berbic was said to have forced himself on his family's baby-sitter and was arrested and charged with hostile touching.

He was sentenced to a four-year prison term but only served 15 months before he appealed the sentence and was released on six months' probation.
The appeal was, however, thrown out and the judge ordered that he be deported to Jamaica.

In 1986, Berbic, fighting out of Canada, won the WBC crown from American Pinklon "Pinky" Thomas, who was humiliated in his first ever defeat. He held the title for only eight months before taking on the powerful 20 year-old slugger, Mike Tyson. Berbic lost that fight in the second round after being caught with a left hook to the forehead that had him staggering around like a drunk.
But he was always getting into trouble with the law and because of his criminal convictions in the US, he became an unwanted man. In June 1997, a US court ordered him deported to Jamaica.

But Berbic fled back to Canada where he had become a landed immigrant in 1979. However, he was stripped of his landed immigrant status. By the following year, because of his failure to pay his income tax, Canada ordered his deportation. But he was not deported, as the court decided that his convictions were eight years old, and he did not pose a threat to the country. Instead, he was granted permission by the Immigration & Refugee Board to stay in Canada for five years.

Berbic began his career in Canada when, at age 21, he represented Jamaica in the 1976 Olympics at Montreal. After the games, he did not return home and turned pro that same year.

One of Berbic's more memorable fights was his bout with boxing great Muhammed Ali in The Bahamas in 1981. For over 10 rounds, Berbic relentlessly pounded a brave but faded Ali into retirement.
Berbic, who has six children from two marriages, finished his boxing career with a record of 50 -11 - 1 including 33 knockouts.

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