Boxing record
30 Jan 2009 Kell Brook Bethnal Green, London, England Lost ref stopped fight 2nd round
28 Nov 2008 Paul Burns Bellahouston Sports Centre, Glasgow, Scotland Won PTS 6 Rounds
4 Jul 2008 Ted Bami Everton Park Sports Centre, Liverpool, England Lost ref stopped fight 7th round
25 Mar 2008 Vyacheslav Senchenko Drusba Sportpalast, Donetsk, Ukraine Lost TKOut 2nd round
18 Feb 2008 Chris Brophy Radisson SAS Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland Won PTS 6 rounds
20 Jul 2007 Alexander Matviechuk Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England Won PTS 6 rounds
23 Mar 2007 John O'Donnell Nottingham Ice Arena, Nottingham, England Lost PTS 10 rounds
10 Nov 2006 Ben Hudson Oakengates Theatre, Telford, England Won PTS 4 rounds
23 Jun 2006 Francis (Franny) Jones Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England Won KO 1st round
18 May 2006 Peter Dunn Town Hall, Walsall, England Won PTS 6 rounds
10 Mar 2006 David Kirk Bescot Stadium, Walsall, England Won PTS 10 rounds
25 Nov 2005 Ben Hudson Town Hall, Walsall, England Won PTS 4 rounds
6 Oct 2005 Ernie Smith Concert Hall (Formerly Town Hall), Dudley, England Won PTS 6 rounds
1 Apr 2001 Richard Inquieti Light Bar, Wolverhampton, England Won PTS 6 rounds
28 Jan 2001 Arv Mittoo Light Bar, Wolverhampton, England Won PTS 6 rounds
6 Nov 2000 Ernie Smith Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England Won PTS 6 rounds
Carlos Ortiz was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He held world titles in lightweight and light welterweight weight divisions. Along with Félix Trinidad, Miguel Cotto, Wilfredo Gómez, Héctor Camacho, José Torres, Edwin Rosario and Wilfred Benítez, Ortiz is considered among the best Puerto Rican boxers of all time by sports journalists and analysts. As of January 2018, Ortiz holds the record for the most wins in unified lightweight title bouts in boxing history at 10.
José Ángel Nápoles was a Cuban-born Mexican professional boxer. He was a two-time undisputed welterweight champion, having held the WBA, WBC, and The Ring welterweight titles between 1969 and 1975. He is frequently ranked as one of the greatest fighters of all time in that division and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. His record of the most wins in unified championship bouts in boxing history, shared with Muhammad Ali, was unbeaten for 40 years. After debuting professionally in Cuba, he fought out of Mexico and became a Mexican citizen.
The Chase Line is a suburban railway line in the West Midlands region of England. It runs from its southern terminus, Birmingham New Street, to Walsall, and then Rugeley in Staffordshire, where it joins the Trent Valley Line. The name of the line refers to Cannock Chase which it runs through at its northern end.
Richard John Hatton is a British former professional boxer who competed between 1997 and 2012, and has since worked as a boxing promoter and trainer. During his boxing career he held multiple world championships at light-welterweight and one at welterweight. BoxRec ranks Hatton as the 11th greatest European boxer of all time and 5th greatest British boxer of all time, pound for pound. In 2005 he was named Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine, the Boxing Writers Association of America, and ESPN.
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Brian Nancurvis, who fought under the name Brian Curvis as a professional, was a boxer from Swansea, Wales who was active from 1959 to 1966. He fought as a Welterweight, becoming British welterweight champion in 1960. He retired as undefeated champion and is the only welterweight to have won two Lonsdale Belts outright. The four defeats in his professional career were all to foreign boxers; he was never beaten by a British boxer.
The Prizefighter series was a professional boxing tournament created by boxing promoter Barry Hearn and aired on Sky Sports. The format has an initial eight fighters, who compete in four quarter-finals of 3 x 3 minute rounds followed by two semi-finals and one final all on the same night. The total prize money of the tournament is £80,000 with the winner of the tournament taking home £32,000, a figure that has increased from the initial top prize of £25,000 when the tournament first aired in April 2008. There have been 34 Prizefighter tournaments so far featuring 14 different weight divisions. The last tournament was held in 2015.
Colin Lynes is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1998 to 2017. He held the IBO super lightweight title from 2004 to 2005. At regional level, he held the British super lightweight title in 2007; the EBU European super lightweight title from 2007 to 2008; and the British welterweight title from 2011 to 2012.
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Wednesbury Old Athletic, often referred to as W.O.A.C., was an English association football club based in Wednesbury, West Midlands. There were three clubs that had this name.
Sam Webb is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2012. He held the British super welterweight title from 2010 to 2011.
Thomas Glanville Davies was a Welsh Middleweight boxer. Davies was Wales middleweight champion from 1943 until his retirement in 1949. He successfully defended his title on four occasions. Davies was considered a serious contender for the British Middleweight title, but a string of three fights against Vince Hawkins during 1944 robbed him of his chance of a title fight.
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"John" Wayne Hibbert is an English former professional boxer who competed from 2009 to 2017. He held the WBC International light-welterweight title twice between 2014 and 2016, and the Commonwealth light-welterweight title from 2015 to 2016.
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