Paul McCloskey
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| Nickname(s) | Dudey | ||||||||||||
| Rated at | Light-welterweight | ||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 1⁄2 in (174 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Reach | 70 in (178 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Born |
3 August 1979 Dungiven, Northern Ireland |
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| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 27 | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 24 | ||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Losses | 3 | ||||||||||||
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Paul McCloskey (born 3 August 1979) is a former professional boxer from Northern Ireland who competed from 2005 to 2013. He held the British super-lightweight title from 2008 to 2009; the European super-lightweight title from 2009 to 2011; and challenged once for the WBA super-lightweight title in 2011. As an amateur, McCloskey won a silver medal in the welterweight division at the 2003 European Union Championships, and was an Irish Senior amateur champion.
McCloskey played both Gaelic football and hurling at underage and briefly at senior level for the local clubs in Dungiven – St. Canice's Dungiven and Kevin Lynch's respectively. He was part of the Dungiven side that won the Derry Senior Football Championship and Ulster Senior Club Football Championship in 1997.
McCloskey boxed out of the St. Canices ABC and fought for Ireland at amateur level and was a three-time Irish champion and five-time senior Ulster champion in the light welterweight division. He failed to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in third place at the 2nd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Warsaw, Poland.
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