Paul Ingle
Paul Andrew Ingle ( born June 22, 1972 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire ) is a former British professional boxer and IBF world featherweight champion.
Amateur career
As an amateur, Ingle in 1991 and 1993 English flyweight champion and 1990 runner-up English. In the 6th Junior World Championships in 1990 in Peru, he won the bronze medal in the flyweight. In 1991 and 1992 he also won each of the International Canada Cup in Ottawa.
In 1992 he represented Britain at the 25th Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. There he defeated in the first preliminary round Alexander Baba from Ghana, but then lost to eventual Olympic champion Choi Chol -su from North Korea with almost 12:13.
At the World Championships in 1991 in Sydney and the European Championships in 1993 in Bursa, he was parted from each in the quarterfinals.
Professional career
In 1994 he was finally professional boxer and won his first 14 fights in a row, including 9 by knockout ( Ko). 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 whacked 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 ), also the champion of the Commonwealth. After following points victory against Trust Ndlovu ( 14-2 ) from Zimbabwe and a knockout win against Moussa Sangare ( 33-9 ) from Luxembourg, he punched on 8 August 1998 Scarborough against the Ukrainian champions Rakhim Mingaleyev to the Intercontinental Champion title IBF and won by KO in the fourth round. On September 26, 1998, he was in York with a knockout win in the eighth round against Billy Hardy ( 37-8 ), champions of the EBU.
Unbeaten in 21 professional fights to date, he received on 10 April 1999 in Manchester a world title fight against WBO of the also undefeated Naseem Hamed ( 31-0 ). In the run with the utmost severity fight Ingle had in rounds 1 and 6 respectively to the ground, but won in rounds 9 and 10 the upper hand, Hamed added to a profusely bleeding nose injury and brought him even to the edge of a precipitate. On lap 11, however, Ingle went through a left Ko and so suffered his first defeat as a professional.
But already in his next fight on 13 November 1999 in Kingston upon Hull against Manuel Medina ( 56-10 ), he was able to secure his IBF world title. Medina was already in the second round twice on the ground and was again knocked down in the tenth round before Ingle also once walked in the twelfth round to the ground. Finally Ingle won by unanimous decision and defended his title on April 29, 2000 at Madison Square Garden by Ko in the eleventh round against the American Junior Jones ( 47-4 ).
To the next title defense took place on December 16, 2000 in Sheffield against the South Africans and former IBF world champion bantamweight Mbulelo Botile (26-1 ). Ingle had in this fight in round 11 once to the ground and was again beaten in round 12 to the ground, after which the referee broke off the fight and Botile the winner by KO was declared. Ingle was because he no longer had the legs for a few minutes, transferred to Sheffield 's Royal Hallamshire Hospital, where he had to be removed from the brain of a blood clot. This meant the end of his boxing career.