Danny Dignum
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| Born | 17 March 1992 Essex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | Middleweight | ||||||||||||||
| Boxing career | |||||||||||||||
| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||||
| Boxing record[2] | |||||||||||||||
| Total fights | 19 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins | 16 | ||||||||||||||
| Win by KO | 9 | ||||||||||||||
| Losses | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Draws | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Danny Dignum (born 17 March 1992[1]) is an English professional boxer who held the WBO European middleweight title from 2019 to 2023. He also challenged future unified middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly for the vacant WBO interim middleweight title in 2023. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Combat Games.
Danny Dignum was born on 17 March 1992 in Essex, England. He attended St. Margaret's primary school in his home town of Bowers Gifford before attending The Appleton School in South Benfleet. He worked alongside his dad and twin brother as a tarmacer and concreter before taking up boxing full time. After his parents became fed up of he and his twin brother fighting, both began boxing at the age of nine on their father's suggestion.[3]
Amateur career
During a career in which he had around 85 fights with approximately 70 wins, he won the 2012 ABA Championships,[4] a bronze medal at the 2013 World Combat Games[5] and competed at the 2014 European Union Championships as part of the GB Boxing team.[6]