Andy Lee (boxer)
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Lee celebrating a win in Limerick, 2008
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| Nickname(s) | "Irish" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reach | 75 in (191 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Irish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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11 June 1984 Bow, London, England |
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| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 38 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 34 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Draws | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Andy Lee (born 11 June 1984) is an Irish professional boxer. He held the WBO middleweight title from 2014 to 2015, and the Irish super middleweight title in 2007.
Lee was born in Bow, London, England, to Irish parents. In 1998, his parents returned to Castleconnell, County Limerick in Ireland with their six children. Lee had previously been training at the Repton Boxing Club in London from the age of eight, and upon his family's return to Ireland, Lee and his brothers joined St Francis ABC in Limerick, where his boxing career took off.
Lee signed his first professional contract with Manny Steward in 2005. He then moved to Detroit, Michigan where he lived with his longtime manager and trainer until Steward died in 2012. Following his death, Lee moved to London where he joined up with English trainer Adam Booth It was with Booth that Lee won the WBO belt in 2014, becoming the first Irish boxer to win a world title on American soil since 1934. Lee is also the first member of the Irish Traveller community or any Traveller community to win a world title.
Lee represented Ireland at the 2002 World Junior championships in Santiago de Cuba, competing in the middleweight category. Lee fought five times in a week beating Ismail Sillakh and United States favourite Jesus Gonzales but lost the final to Cuban boxer Noelvis Diaz to claim the silver medal.
At the World Amateur Championships in Bangkok, Lee was beaten on points by eventual winner Gennady Golovkin who also defeated Lucian Bute and Matt Korobov on his way to the gold medal.
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