Don't Count John Howard Out

Three fights, three losses, the last of which was the worst of John Howard’s career. And his first-round TKO defeat at the hands of Lorenz Larkin in January of 2015 came in his hometown of Boston, no less. So as he stepped into the Octagon to meet Cathal Pendred in July, “Doomsday” had his back against the wall.“A little bit,” he said. “The pressure was definitely on me, having three losses in a row.” Howard isn’t one to go quietly into the night t