The New Forrest
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JERRY FORREST had already gotten a bitter taste of the inner workings of the fight game when he left a secure job as a nuclear electrician to go all-in on his career as a heavyweight boxer. It was just getting started, though, as the Virginian followed up a controversial decision loss to Jermaine Franklin in 2019 with equally debated draws against Zhilei Zhang and Michael Hunter last year.
But the 34-year-old isn’t going anywhere.
“I think about it [going back to the old job] from time to time, but boxing has blessed my life,” he told Boxing News. “It’s done a lot of good for me and my family. You know they say you don’t owe people
