Lawrence has never fought for a major heavyweight title, but he served an important test for up-and-coming prospects.
Prior to their fight Calvin Brock gave an example of this thinking in an interview with Tiger Boxing: "Zuri Lawrence?
In a close battle in which Versus' viewers had Lawrence leading, he was knocked out by Rahman in the 10th and final round.
[5] In July 2008, Lawrence won in a huge upset over heavyweight prospect Albert Sosnowski after taking the fight on late notice.
He fought Jason Estrada on September 2, 2009, and which Lawrence was knocked down once in the second and once in the seventh before the referee stopped the fight at 2:33.