Irving Berry

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Irving Berry
Statistics
Real nameIrving Berry
Weight(s) Featherweight
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Reach72 in (182 cm)
Nationality Panamanian
Born (1986-01-11) 11 January 1986 (age 33)
Panama City, Panama
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights34
Wins23
Wins by KO9
Losses9
Draws2
No contests0

Irving Berry (born 11 January 1986 in Panama City, Panama) is a featherweight boxer from Panama and is the second ranked featherweight for the WBA championship. [1]

Panama City City in Panamá Province, Panama

Panama City, also simply known as Panama, is the capital and largest city of Panama. It has an urban population of 880,691, with over 1.5 million in its metropolitan area. The city is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of Panama. The city is the political and administrative center of the country, as well as a hub for banking and commerce.

Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling.

Boxing combat sport

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring.

Contents

Professional career

WBA featherweight championship

On 4 December 2010, Berry lost first title shot to WBA World featherweight champion, Jonathan Victor Barros. [2]

World Boxing Association Boxing organization

The World Boxing Association (WBA), formerly known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), is the oldest and one of four major organizations which sanction professional boxing bouts, alongside the IBF, WBC, and WBO. The WBA awards its world championship title at the professional level. Founded in the United States in 1921 by thirteen state representatives as the NBA, in 1962 it changed its name in recognition of boxing's growing popularity worldwide, and began to gain other nations as members.

Jonathan Victor Barros is an Argentine featherweight boxer and former WBA (Regular) featherweight champion.

Achievements
New title WBA International Featherweight Champion
June 4, 2010 – October 4, 2010
Lost bid for world title
Vacant

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References

  1. Irving Berry – Boxrec Boxing Encyclopaedia. Boxrec.com. Retrieved on 2012-06-21.
  2. BoxRec Boxing Records. Boxrec.com (2010-12-04). Retrieved on 2012-06-21.

BoxRec or boxrec.com is a website dedicated to holding updated records of professional boxers, both male and female. It also maintains a MediaWiki-based encyclopaedia of boxing.