Andrew Selby

Andrew Selby
Data
Birth Name	Andrew Selby
Fight name	Superstar
Weight class	Flyweight
nationality	British
birthday	December 25, 1988
place of birth	Cardiff
style	Left delivery
size	1.68 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	14th
Victories	13
Knockout victories	7th
Defeats	1

Andrew Selby medal table
Boxing
Wales
World championships
bronze	2013	Flyweight
silver	2011	Flyweight
European championships
gold	2013	Flyweight
gold	2011	Flyweight
bronze	2010	Bantamweight
bronze	2008	Bantamweight
Commonwealth Championships
bronze	2010	Flyweight

Andrew Selby (* 25. December 1988 in Cardiff ) is a Welsh professional boxer in the flyweight . He is the brother of boxer Lee Selby . As an amateur, he was European champion in 2011 and 2013, vice world champion in 2011, quarter-finalist at the 2012 Olympic Games and third at the 2013 World Cup.

Amateur career

Andrew Selby was one of the best amateur boxers in the history of sports in Wales and trained at Splott ABC (Amateur Boxing Club). He won 14 Welsh and seven British championships in his age and weight class and was a member of the UK national team for nine years.

At the Junior World Championships in Morocco in 2006 he was only eliminated in the quarter-finals against Vasyl Lomatschenko , who later became two-time Olympic champion. He then started at the 2007 World Championships in Chicago , but lost in the first fight against the reigning Asian champion Violito Payla.

In 2008 he first started bantamweight at the 2008 European Championships in Liverpool . With wins against Nebojša Rosić and Mateusz Mazik, he reached the semi-finals, where he lost to Detelin Dalakliew and was eliminated with a bronze medal. At the 2009 World Championships in Milan , he was eliminated again in the second preliminary round against Detelin Dalakliew, who also secured the world title.

At the European Championships in Moscow in 2010 , he again won a bronze medal after he was eliminated in the semifinals against the reigning European champion Heorhij Tschyhajew . He had previously defeated Pedro Matos and Furkan Ulaş . He also won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Championships in India .

For the 2011 World Championships in Baku , he switched back to flyweight and beat Hesham Abdelaal, Severiane Chiladze, Chatchai Butdee , Michael Conlan and Jasurbek Latipov , which made him into the final. There he lost to Michail Alojan at 12:13 . He also won the 2011 European Championships in Ankara with victories against Norbert Kalucza , Elie Konki , Alexander Riscan and three-time European champion Georgi Balakschin .

As reigning European champion and runner-up world champion, he started as one of the favorites at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . In the last sixteen he prevailed against Ilyas Süleimenow , but lost in the quarter-finals to the Pan American champion and later Olympic champion, Robeisy Ramirez .

At the European Championships in Minsk in 2013 , he won his second European title in a row after defeating Michael Conlan again in the final . In the semifinals he had defeated Elvin Məmişzadə , in the quarterfinals Ronny Beblik and in the second round Alexander Alexandrow. He also won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships in Almaty . Against Malik Jackson, Gerardo Cervantes and Ilyas Süleimenow he had reached the semi-finals, where he was eliminated with 1: 2 against Jasurbek Latipov .

World Series of Boxing

From 2012 to 2015 he boxed in the World Series of Boxing (WSB) and won nine out of ten fights. In 2012/13 he reached fifth place with the British Lionhearts team and 2013/14 with the Italia Thunder team .

Professional career

Under the manager and promoter Chris Sanigar Selby switched to the professional camp in September 2015 and won his debut on October 30, 2015. In his only fifth fight, he won the British flyweight championship on May 14, 2016 against Louis Norman. On November 18, 2016, he won the IBF Inter-Continental title against Jake Bornea .

On February 4, 2017, he defeated Ardin Diale in the fight for the WBC International title and in May 2017 also defeated the later WBC world champion Cristofer Rosales . In October 2017 he defeated Maximino Flores in a final WBC World Championship eliminator.

On March 23, 2019, however, he lost by knockout in the fifth round against the Mexican Julio Aguilar.

swell

• Website "amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
• Welsh and English Boxing Federation websites

Web links

• BoxRec profile
• World Series of Boxing
• RingTV
• Article about Andrew Selby in engl. Language ( Memento of October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )