World Boxing News has uncovered a compelling post-fight interview featuring undefeated welterweight Terrel Williams, shedding new light on the immediate aftermath of his controversial October 2015 bout against Prichard Colón.
Unearthed from YouTube footage recorded by DC Mike TV at the EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia, the interview captures Williams in the direct aftermath of the contest. At the time the recording was made, Williams’ focus was entirely on his victory, the progression of his professional career, and what his next steps in the sport would be.
Crucially, the timing of the interview underscores a sobering reality. Neither Williams, the interviewer, nor anyone else in the arena at that exact moment spoke with the tragic foreknowledge of the devastating medical consequences Colón and his family were about to face.
Reflecting on the contest for the camera, Williams described what had just transpired inside the squared circle as a "wild fight," expressing his firm belief that he had done enough to dictate the pace and produce the more effective work over the course of the bout.
"It was a wild fight," Williams told DC Mike TV. "I felt like I dictated the fight. He landed a few good shots, I landed a few good shots, but at the end of the day, I landed the more effective shots. He wasn’t going to tear me from my dream and my destiny, man. I had to keep on fighting."
The conversation soon turned to the controversial nature of the bout. The interviewer brought up Colón’s repeated mid-fight complaints regarding punches landed to the back of his head—illegal blows often referred to as rabbit punches—and asked Williams how the final official result had been logged. Specifically, the interviewer questioned whether the outcome stood as a technical knockout (TKO) or a disqualification.
Williams responded directly to the question, expressing mild frustration with the official scoring of the finish. "Nah, they robbed me of my TKO, but a win is a win, I can’t complain," he said.
Viewed more than a decade later, those words inevitably carry an entirely different, heavy weight. The subsequent medical tragedy that befell Colón radically transformed how the boxing world remembers that night in Virginia. However, the footage serves as a historical snapshot, capturing Williams speaking in the immediate minutes after the final bell, entirely without the benefit of hindsight or the knowledge of the life-altering events that were quietly beginning to unfold behind the scenes.
When asked about his immediate future in the sport, Williams was already looking ahead, eager to capitalize on what he believed was a major step forward for his career under the guidance of his promotional team.
"Regroup with the team. Al Haymon has the best team ever, so I mean, I’m blessed to be in the position that I am today," Williams shared during the interview. "I know coming into the fight a lot of people didn’t know me, but hopefully, I showed well, and I showed good on my behalf. So, hopefully, they’ll be seeing me back real soon."
Before Everything Changed
Perhaps the most striking and haunting aspect of the unearthed interview is how utterly normal everything still seemed to the victorious fighter in those fleeting moments.
Williams had traveled all the way from Los Angeles for what he noted was his very first visit to the East Coast. Having spent the days leading up to the event entirely focused on his preparations and the rigorous demands of the fight, he was genuinely looking forward to finally taking in some of the sights of the Washington, D.C., and Virginia area.
"First time ever on the East Coast. Enjoying it. I got a beautiful view of the White House, all of it," Williams said with visible optimism. "I couldn’t really do too much sightseeing because I had a job at hand. Now, I can sightseeing a little bit, but I’m happy, man. Everybody’s got great hospitality out here in Virginia, D.C."
At the time the recording was captured, there was not the slightest indication during the conversation of how dramatically the entire atmosphere surrounding the event was about to shift. Williams was cheerfully discussing the protection of his lifelong boxing dreams, enjoying the novelty of his first trip to the East Coast, and expressing hope that fans would see him back in the ring in the near future.
In the hours and days that followed, Colón’s medical situation deteriorated into a severe and permanent crisis, altering the course of his life forever. The fight itself would ultimately remain permanently and inextricably attached to both men’s names, long after the official result on their respective records ceased to hold any real significance in the broader context of human tragedy.
This newly highlighted interview offers a poignant, unfiltered snapshot of Terrel Williams during that brief, fragile window after leaving the ring—caught precisely in the transition between completing what he believed was the biggest professional assignment of his career and realizing the grim reality of what had truly taken place.
He believed he had successfully navigated a tough test and was simply thinking about what came next. Neither fighter, nor anyone watching from ringside, could possibly have known just how profoundly different the answer to that question would ultimately become.
