Haitian born Ancee Gideon started his professional boxing career March 8, 1990 winning a close majority decision to Ezequiel Lopez in Phoenix, AZ.
It was 3 more decision victories before Gideon scored his first ko win in round 1 of a bout scheduled for 4 rounds against Mexico's Martin Llovera.
Ancee ran his record to 7-0 before taking his first professinal loss against Albuquerque's Julian "Balone" Ramirez (1-0-2) by majority decision over 4 rounds.
Gideon came back with a tko win, but then started a bad streak where he went 0-6-1 in his next 7 fights. After a promising 7-0 start to his career and looking like a hot prospect, he now found his self standing at 8-7-1 and taking on opponent status. Even though he did not win any of those 7 fights, if you look close at the record, he had been thrown in with world class fighters and showed great promise... Alberto Cepeda (who would go on to fight for 2 titles), Paul "Super Fly" Gonzalez (Olympic Gold Medalist), unbeaten Brian Lonon (5-0), twice with Henry Martinez (who would go on to face Johnny Tapia for the world title) - fighting a draw, and losing a razor thin majority decision in the rematch, and dropping a 10-round decision to multi-time world champion Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson (17-1)! He was never stopped in any of those bouts in that run.
This is when he had the good fortune of finding his way to Jesse Reid's gym and impressed the world class trainer with his sparring against some high level boxers. Under Reid's tutelage, he began a "Rocky-like" turn-around.
It started with a 5th round stoppage of highly respected veteran - Ray Hernandez (32-15-1) and then after a 5 round shutout decision win over Bernard Mukenge, Gideon stepped in and shocked the boxing world by getting up off of the canvas in round 3 to battle back and take a majority decision win over former IBF World Champion - Robert Quiroga (20-1, 11 ko) in Quiroga's home town of San Antonio Texas!
In his next fight, Gideon showed more of his potential as he pitched a nearly perfect unanimous win over world title contender - the hard punching Joel Luna Zarate (26-1, 21 ko) in an 8 round bout held at Buffalo Bill's in Primm, Nevada.
After two incredible upset wins, Ancee Gideon was world ranked, and named as the challenger to Sergio Reyes (11-1) for Reyes's USBA Bantamweight title belt. But, to get that title, Gideon would have to fight in the champion's home town of Fort Worth, Texas. Again, Gideon was the underdog. Again, Gideon proved the odds-makers wrong. He fought another nearly flawless performance and dominated the champion from bell to bell, winning on scores of 118-108, 119-107, and 118-109. There was no controversy, Gideon was now the USBA Bantamweight Champion!
Gideon never defended that title, but rather, took a non-title bout and scored a 3rd round tko over Houston's Chris Gomez (11-6), and then got the call for his first (and only) world title challenge.
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| Gideon's career took an upward trajectory under Jesse Reid's guidance |
Ancee would travel to Providence, Rhode Island and challenge unbeaten IBF Bantamweight World Champion - Mbulelo Botile (18-0, 11 ko) for his world title. It was April 2, 1996 when Gideon (14-7-1) would take the ultimate test and try to once again shock the world with another upset. He was well prepared and fought hard, but on that night, the South African was not ready to relinquish his title, scoring the knockout in round 11 to end Gidoen's dreams of winning a world title.
Gideon would fight twice more. Ending his career with 2 more world class opponents. It was about a year and a half after losing his title bid against Botile, when he scored a 6-round unanimous decision win over former NABO Flyweight champion - Tomas Cordoba (16-5) at the Orleans Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
His final bout came on May 1, 1998, and he went out "big" fighting for the NABF Bantamweight title against defending champion - Adan Vargas (26-1-1, 19 ko). Gideon lost a unanimous 12-round decision to the champion, but in doing so, proved that he was a worthy contender.
Ancee Gideon's amazing career finished with a final record of: 15 wins, 9 losses, 1 draw, and winning 5 by knockout.
The once homeless refugee from Haiti had earned great respect from boxing fans around the world. Scoring some big upsets, winning the USBA championship, fighting for the NABF title. Challenging for the IBF World title. It was an amazing ride!
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ANCEE "The Hatian Hammer" GIDEON vs
JON LOPEZ #1 [w-4]
JULIAN "Balone" RAMIREZ [L-4]
PAUL GONZALEZ [L-10]
HENRY MARTINEZ #1 [Draw-6] (Rds. 4, 5 & 6 ONLY)
SERGIO REYES [w-12] {USBA Bantam Title}
CHRIS GOMEZ [tko-3]
JULIAN "Balone" RAMIREZ [L-4]
PAUL GONZALEZ [L-10]
HENRY MARTINEZ #1 [Draw-6] (Rds. 4, 5 & 6 ONLY)
SERGIO REYES [w-12] {USBA Bantam Title}
CHRIS GOMEZ [tko-3]
MBULELO BOTILE [ko-by-11] {IBF Bantam Title}
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