Mike Evgen, alias The Rice Street Rocker, is a retired welterweight professional boxer from Minnesota.
Mike Evgen, as his nickname implies, is from the Rice Street neighborhood in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Nevertheless, Evgen continued to fight and to win, and by the time he fought for the IBO light welterweight championship in April 1992 he was sporting a 19–1 record.
Evgen's career continued until July 1997, when he suffered an unexpected third-round knockout loss to Steve Valdez.
[1] In 2012, his life story was featured in an independently produced documentary titled "the Rice Street Rocker.