Sean Murphy (boxer)

Sean Murphy
Born	(1964-12-01) 1 December 1964 (age 60) St Albans, England
Nationality	English
Statistics
Weight(s)	Bantamweight Featherweight
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Boxing record
Total fights	27
Wins	22
Wins by KO	14
Losses	5
Draws	0
No contests	0
Medal record Men's boxing Representing  England Commonwealth Games 1986 Edinburgh Bantamweight

Sean Murphy (born 1 December 1964) is an English boxing trainer and former professional fighter.

Career

Born in St Albans, Murphy boxed as a professional between 1986 and 1994.^[1] Murphy represented England and won a gold medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.^[2][3][4]

After winning the prestigious ABA bantamweight title in 1985 and 1986, boxing for St. Albans ABC,^[5] he turned professional. Sean Murphy went on to win British and Commonwealth Featherweight titles. He defended his British Featherweight title for 2 fights losing it to Gary De Roux on Tuesday 5 March 1991. Sean Murphy retained the British title on Sunday 27 June 1993 against Alan McKay and was given the chance to fight for the WBO Featherweight World Title against Steve Robinson in Wales but he was Knocked Out in Round 9. Sean would then fight once more for the British and Commonwealth Lightweight Title however he was knocked out by Billy Schwer on 16 February 1994 ending his Professional Boxing Career.

After retiring from fighting, Murphy became a trainer at Finchley Amateur Boxing Club, based in Barnet, North London. He has trained the former WBA, WBO, IBF champion Anthony Joshua.^[6]

References

1. Boxing record for Sean Murphy from BoxRec (registration required)
2. "1986 Athletes". Team England.
3. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
4. "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOXING". gbrathletics.
5. "Roll of Honour". England Boxing.
6. David Keller (12 August 2012). "Olympic boxer Anthony Joshua 'as good as Lennox Lewis'". BBC Sport.