Frankie Gavin (Boxer)
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Gavin in 2015
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| Real name | Frankie Raymond Gavin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Funtime | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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28 September 1985 Birmingham, West Midlands, England |
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| Stance | Southpaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frankie Raymond Gavin (born 28 September 1985) is a British professional boxer. He held the British welterweight title from 2012 to 2015; the Commonwealth welterweight title twice, from 2013 to 2014; and challenged once for the IBF welterweight title in 2015. As an amateur, Gavin won a gold medal in the lightweight division at the 2007 World Championships, becoming England's first ever winner of that event. He also won lightweight gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Domestically as an amateur, Gavin represented the Birmingham's Hall Green boxing club with whom he won the English ABA championship in 2005 and 2007 and a Four Nations championship in 2005.
Internationally, Gavin defeated Giovanni Frontin of Mauritius to win a gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the lightweight (60 kg) division. That year he won bronze at the European Union Championships losing to Domenico Valentino in the semi-final. Gavin has beaten him twice since.
At the European Championships 2006 he lost to Olexandr Klyuchko.
At the 2007 World Championships he first beat reigning world silver medallist and fellow southpaw Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan scoring a knockdown. Frankie then caused a huge upset by defeating Russian superstar Aleksei Tishchenko, unbeaten in four years, to reach the final where he beat Italian Domenico Valentino 19:10.
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