- Born
- 1954
- Died
- 2006
- Nationality
- Jamaica / Canada
- Career
- 1976–2000
A Jamaican heavyweight who represented his country at the 1976 Olympics before turning professional in Canada, Berbick won the WBC title from Pinklon Thomas in 1986. Mike Tyson took the belt later that year. Berbick also defeated Muhammad Ali in Ali’s final professional bout in 1981. The imported professional table records 61 bouts; some historical reports give different career totals.
Titles & Honours
- WBC Heavyweight Champion (1986–1986)
- Canadian Heavyweight Champion (1979–1986, 1999–2001)
- Pan American Games Bronze (1975)
Career Timeline
1976–2000- Milestone
Pan American Games Bronze (1975)
Year from profile honours.
- Milestone
First recorded professional bout
vs Wayne Martin · W TKO
- Title history
Title reign begins
Canadian Heavyweight Champion (1979–1986, 1999–2001). Year from profile title history; exact title-winning bout not identified.
- Signature fight
vs Muhammad Ali
W UD10 Muhammad Ali (1981) · Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre, Nassau, Bahamas
- Milestone
25th recorded win
vs Mark Lee · PTS. Newspaper decisions excluded.
- Title history
Title reign begins
WBC Heavyweight Champion (1986–1986). Year from profile title history; exact title-winning bout not identified.
- Signature fight
vs Pinklon Thomas
W UD12 Pinklon Thomas (1986) · Riviera, Winchester, Nevada, U.S.
- Signature fight
vs Mike Tyson
L TKO2 Mike Tyson (1986) · Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S.
- Title history
Title reign begins
Canadian Heavyweight Champion (1979–1986, 1999–2001). Year from profile title history; exact title-winning bout not identified.
- Milestone
Latest recorded bout
vs Shane Sutcliffe · W UD. Not necessarily the retirement date.
Derived from the current archive and profile honours. Title-reign years are not exact bout dates; title claims are not independently verified. Signature fights use existing profile selections, or clearly labelled wins over other archived fighters when no selections exist. Year-only dates retain their original precision.
Photo Archive
No freely licensed photographs of Trevor Berbick are available in this archive.
Fight-by-Fight Record
| Date | Result | Opponent | Method | Round | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-09-27 | W | Wayne Martin | TKO | 5 | Festival Arena, Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada |
| 1976-11-23 | W | Bobby Halpern | TKO | 3 | Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1977-01-09 | W | Michael Lucas | TKO | 2 | New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1977-01-25 | W | Joe Maye | TKO | 7 | Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1977-08-18 | W | Willie Moore | KO | 4 | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1977-09-08 | W | Eddie Owens | TKO | 5 | Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1977-12-08 | W | Eugene Green | UD | 10 | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1978-06-28 | W | Horst Geisler | KO | 1 | Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1978-08-01 | W | Tony Moore | TKO | 6 | Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1978-09-12 | W | Gregory Johnson | KO | 4 | Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1978-10-08 | W | Greg Sorrentino | TKO | 1 | Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1979-04-03 | L | Bernardo Mercado | KO | 1 | Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1979-05-26 | W | Earl McLeay | TKO | 7 | Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1979-06-14 | D | Leroy Caldwell | PTS | 10 | Convention Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| 1979-12-11 | W | Ngozika Ekwelum | TKO | 5 | Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1980-03-11 | W | Johnny Warr | SD | 10 | Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1980-06-20 | W | John Tate | KO | 9 | Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| 1980-08-27 | W | Ron Rouselle | KO | 1 | Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| 1980-11-11 | W | Chuck Findlay | KO | 1 | Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1981-01-31 | W | Chuck Gardner | TKO | 4 | Kingston, Jamaica |
| 1981-04-11 | L | Larry Holmes | UD | 15 | Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1981-07-21 | W | Conroy Nelson | KO | 2 | Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1981-12-11 | W | Muhammad Ali | UD | 10 | Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre, Nassau, Bahamas |
| 1982-03-05 | W | Gordon Racette | TKO | 11 | Frank Crane Arena, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada |
| 1982-06-11 | W | Greg Page | UD | 10 | Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1982-10-02 | L | Renaldo Snipes | UD | 10 | Sands, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 1983-05-28 | L | S. T. Gordon | UD | 10 | Showboat Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1983-09-09 | W | Ken Lakusta | KO | 10 | Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| 1984-02-19 | W | Mike Cohen | KO | 4 | Hyatt Regency, Tampa, Florida, U.S. |
| 1984-03-13 | W | Mark Lee | PTS | 10 | Wembley Arena, London, England |
| 1984-09-01 | W | Andros Ernie Barr | TKO | 4 | Nassau, Bahamas |
| 1984-11-28 | W | Walter Santemore | UD | 10 | Broadway by the Bay Theater, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 1985-06-15 | W | David Bey | TKO | 11 | Riviera, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1985-08-10 | W | Mitch Green | MD | 12 | Riviera, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1986-01-17 | W | Mike Perkins | TKO | 10 | Omni Coliseum, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| 1986-03-22 | W | Pinklon Thomas | UD | 12 | Riviera, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1986-11-22 | L | Mike Tyson | TKO | 2 | Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1987-07-31 | W | Art Terry | TKO | 5 | Lee County Civic Center, North Fort Myers, Florida, U.S. |
| 1987-10-29 | W | Lorenzo Boyd | TKO | 3 | Musical Theater, Sunrise, Florida, U.S. |
| 1987-11-24 | W | Robert Evans | UD | 10 | Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 1988-06-27 | L | Carl Williams | UD | 12 | Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 1988-09-20 | W | O T Davis | KO | 3 | Central Plaza Hotel, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| 1989-02-25 | L | Buster Douglas | UD | 10 | Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1990-07-18 | W | Jeff Sims | TKO | 6 | Varsity Arena, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| 1990-12-14 | W | Bobby Crabtree | KO | 5 | The Diplomat, Hollywood, Florida, U.S. |
| 1991-08-02 | W | Garing Lane | PTS | 8 | Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes, France |
| 1994-03-14 | W | Danny Wofford | PTS | 8 | Spartanburg, South Carolina, U.S. |
| 1994-07-30 | W | Paul Phillips | KO | 4 | Myrl H. Shoemaker Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| 1994-08-10 | W | Marselles Brown | KO | 2 | Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| 1994-09-13 | W | Melvin Foster | SD | 10 | Westbury Music Fair, North Hempstead, New York, U.S. |
| 1995-03-15 | L | Jimmy Thunder | UD | 12 | Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Prior Lake, Minnesota, U.S. |
| 1995-08-25 | W | Bruce Johnson | TKO | 3 | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| 1996-04-26 | W | Ken Smith | TKO | 4 | Westbury Music Fair, North Hempstead, New York, U.S. |
| 1996-09-18 | W | Louis Monaco | UD | 10 | Westbury Music Fair, North Hempstead, New York, U.S. |
| 1996-10-15 | L | Hasim Rahman | UD | 10 | Circus Maximus Showroom, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 1997-09-15 | L | Lyle McDowell | SD | 12 | Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| 1998-08-06 | W | Ben Perlini | UD | 10 | Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada |
| 1999-02-05 | W | Shane Sutcliffe | TKO | 12 | Centre Pierre Charbonneau, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| 1999-06-29 | W | Iran Barkley | UD | 8 | Molson Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| 1999-08-12 | L | Tony LaRosa | SD | 8 | Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada |
| 2000-05-26 | W | Shane Sutcliffe | UD | 12 | PNE Agrodome, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Showing 61 of 61 recorded fights · last updated 2026-10-23. Imported record tables are not independently verified and may be incomplete. Early-era logs include newspaper decisions (NWS), which are not counted in the official totals above.
Record notes
Fight record last retrieved: 2026-10-23. Title histories remain subject to archival review.
Historical-era totals differ between record-keeping conventions (newspaper decisions, exhibitions).
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