Ryan Rhodes (born 20 November 1976) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1995 to 2012. He held the British super welterweight title twice, from 1996 to 1997 and in 2008, and the EBU European super welterweight title from 2009 to 2010. Additionally he challenged for the WBO middleweight title in 1997, and the WBC super welterweight title in 2011.
Professional career Rhodes took up boxing at a young age, training at Brendan Ingle's gym in the Wincobank district of Sheffield. At the age of 20, he defeated another Sheffield boxer Paul "Silky" Jones with a technical knock out in the eighth round to become the youngest post-war holder of the British title. He went on to win the belt outright in a record time of 90 days with wins over Peter Waudby and Del Bryan.
On 13 December 1997, Rhodes stepped up a weight division to middleweight to challenge the Canadian Otis Grant for the vacant WBO title but was defeated by a unanimous decision.
On 18 April 2008, Rhodes knocked out Gary Woolcombe 37 seconds into the 9th round to regain the British light middleweight title, 11 years after he first won it. He defended his title for the first time as the main event on the Hayemaker Promotions boxing show in Sheffield. His opponent was Jamie Coyle, whom he defeated by a unanimous decision.
Since then he has defeated Vincent Vuma of South Africa to win the WBC International light middleweight title and in doing so obtained a ranking in the top ten in the world.
Rhodes was due to defend his British light middleweight title against the Londoner Anthony Small at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on 28 March 2008, but withdrew because of an illness during his training camp.
He defeated Jamie Moore in the seventh round of their European title fight on 23 October 2009. He defended the title again on 21 May 2010 at home against the Italian Luca Messi, with a technical knock out in the sixth round.
Rhodes lost his WBC light middleweight challenge bout against Canelo Álvarez with a technical knockout in the twelfth round on 18 June 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Rhodes announced his retirement from professional boxing on 4 September 2012.
Professional boxing record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes52Loss46–6Sergey RabchenkoTKO7 (12), 16 Jun 201251Win46–5Sergey KhomitskyPTS826 Nov 201150Loss45–5Canelo ÁlvarezTKO12 (12), 18 Jun 201149Win45–4Rocky JuniorTKO2 (8), 4 Dec 201048Win44–4Luca MessiTKO6 (12), 21 May 201047Win43–4Jamie MooreTKO7 (12), 23 Oct 200946Win42–4Janos PetrovicsTKO7 (8), 25 Apr 200945Win41–4Vincent VumaUD1215 Nov 200844Win40–4Jamie CoyleUD1220 Sep 200843Win39–4Gary WoolcombeKO9 (12), 18 Apr 200842Win38–4Manoocha SalariTKO4 (10), 5 Dec 200741Win37–4Olufemi MosesTKO2 (6), 13 Oct 200740Win36–4Paul BuchananTKO1 (8), 3 Jun 200739Loss35–4Gary LockettUD128 Jul 200638Win35–3Jevgenijs AndrejevsPTS81 Jun 200637Win34–3Hussain Osman4 (8), 25 Oct 200536Win33–3Alan GilbertTKO2 (6), 16 Jul 200535Win32–3Craig LynchTKO3 (6), 3 Jun 200534Win31–3Peter JacksonPTS622 Apr 200533Win30–3Tomas Da SilvaTKO4 (6), 16 Apr 200432Win29–3Scott DixonPTS812 Mar 200431Win28–3Peter JacksonPTS611 Dec 200330Win27–3Alan GilbertTKO5 (6), 25 Jul 200329Win26–3Paul WesleyKO3 (6), 16 Apr 200328Loss25–3Lee BlundellTKO3 (10), 16 Mar 200227Win25–2Jason CollinsPTS427 Oct 200126Win24–2Yuri TsarenkaPTS621 Jul 200125Win23–2Howard ClarkePTS616 Dec 200024Win22–2Michael AlexanderPTS621 Oct 200023Win21–2Ojay AbrahamsPTS616 May 200022Win20–2Eddie HaleyTKO5 (8)15 Jan 200021Loss19–2Jason MatthewsKO2 (12), 17 Jul 199920Win19–1Peter MasonTKO1 (8), 27 Mar 199919Win18–1Fidel AvendanoTKO1 (12), 28 Nov 199818Win17–1Lorant SzaboTKO8 (12), 18 Jul 199817Loss16–1Otis Grant1213 Dec 199716Win16–0Yuri EpifantsevTKO2 (8), 11 Oct 199715Win15–0Ed GriffinTKO2 (12), 2 Aug 199714Win14–0Lindon ScarlettTKO1 (8), 12 Apr 199713Win13–0Del BryanKO7 (12), 14 Mar 199712Win12–0Peter WaudbyKO1 (12), 25 Feb 199711Win11–0Paul JonesTKO8 (12)14 Dec 199610Win10–0Del BryanPTS614 Sep 19969Win9–0Roy ChipperfieldTKO1 (6)25 Jun 19968Win8–0Martin JolleyTKO2 (8)11 May 19967Win7–0Martin JolleyKO3 (6), 26 Jan 19966Win6–0John DuckworthTKO2 (6), 20 Jan 19965Win5–0Mark Lee DawsonPTS610 Nov 19954Win4–0John RiceTKO2 (6)15 Sep 19953Win3–0Chris Richards66 May 19952Win2–0Seamus Casey1 (6), 4 Mar 19951Win1–0Lee Crocker2 (6)4 Feb 1995
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