Paul Ingle

Paul Ingle
Data
Birth Name	Paul Andrew Ingle
Fight name	Yorkshire Hunter
Weight class	Featherweight
nationality	British
birthday	June 22, 1972
place of birth	Scarborough
style	Standard boom
size	165 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles	25th
Victories	23
Knockout victories	16
Defeats	2
Profile in the BoxRec database

Paul Andrew Ingle (born June 22, 1972 in Scarborough , North Yorkshire ) is a former British professional boxer and IBF featherweight champion.

Amateur career

As an amateur Ingle was English flyweight champion in 1991 and 1993, and English runner-up in 1990. At the 6th Junior World Championships in Peru in 1990 , he won the bronze medal in the flyweight division. In 1991 and 1992 he also won the International Canada Cup in Ottawa .

In 1992 he represented Great Britain at the 25th Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona . There he defeated Alexander Baba from Ghana in the first round, but then lost to the eventual Olympic champion Choi Chol-su from North Korea by just 12:13.

At the 1991 World Championships in Sydney and the 1993 European Championships in Bursa , he was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Professional career

In 1994 he finally became a professional boxer and won his first 14 fights in a row, 9 of them by knockout (knockout). On January 11, 1997 he was in London with a knockout win in round 8 against former world champion Colin McMillan (31 wins - 3 losses), British featherweight champion. In April 1997 he defended the title by knockout in the eleventh round against Michael Alldis (14-3).

On October 11, 1997, he won in Sheffield by a knockout win in the eighth round against Jon Jo Irwin (17-3), in addition the championship of the Commonwealth . After a subsequent points win against Trust Ndlovu (14-2) from Zimbabwe and a knockout win against Moussa Sangare (33-9) from Luxembourg, he boxed on August 8, 1998 in Scarborough against the Ukrainian champion Rakhim Mingaleyev for the intercontinental championship IBF and won by knockout in the fourth round. On September 26, 1998 he was in York with a knockout victory in the eighth round against Billy Hardy (37-8), European champion of the EBU .

Unbeaten in 21 professional fights so far, he received a WBO world title fight in Manchester on April 10, 1999 against the also undefeated Naseem Hamed (31-0). In the fight, which was fought with extreme severity, Ingle had to go to the ground in rounds 1 and 6, but won the upper hand in rounds 9 and 10, inflicting a heavily bleeding nose injury to Hamed and even bringing him to the brink of precipitation. In lap 11, however, Ingle was knocked out by a left and suffered his first defeat as a professional.

But already in his next fight on November 13, 1999 in Kingston upon Hull against Manuel Medina (56-10), he was able to secure his IBF world title. Medina was already down twice in the second lap and was knocked down again in the tenth lap, before Ingle went down once in the twelfth lap. Finally, Ingle won unanimously on points and defended his title on April 29, 2000 in Madison Square Garden by knockout in the eleventh round against the American Junior Jones (47-4).

The next title defense came on December 16, 2000 in Sheffield against the South African and former IBF bantamweight champion Mbulelo Botile (26-1). Ingle had to go to the ground once in round 11 and was knocked down again in round 12, after which the referee broke off the fight and Botile was declared the winner by knockout. Ingle was transferred to Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital, where he could not get up for a few minutes, where a blood clot had to be removed from his brain. This meant the end of his boxing career.

Web links

• Paul Ingle in the BoxRec database
• Paul Ingle Boxing Encyclopaedia

predecessor	Office	successor
Manuel Medina	Featherweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) November 13, 1999 - December 16, 2000	Mbulelo Botile