Danny Dignum Explained

Danny Dignum
Weight:Middleweight
Height:6 ft 1 in
Birth Date:1992 3, df=y
Birth Place:Essex, England
Style:Southpaw
Boxrec:778014
Total:19
Wins:16
Ko:9
Losses:2
Draws:1

Danny Dignum (born 17 March 1992[1]) is an English professional boxer who has held the WBO European middleweight title since 2019. As an amateur he won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Combat Games.

Early life

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.[2]

Amateur career

During a career in which he had around 85 fights with approximately 70 wins, he won the 2012 ABA Championships,[3] a bronze medal at the 2013 World Combat Games[4] and competed at the 2014 European Union Championships as part of the GB Boxing team.[5]

Professional career

Dignum made his professional debut on 26 November 2016, scoring a second-round technical knockout (TKO) victory over Jimmy White at the Wembley Arena in London.[6]

After compiling a record of 11–0 (5 KOs) he faced Conrad Cummings for the vacant WBO European middleweight title on 9 November 2019 at the York Hall in London. In a fight which saw Cummings receive a point deduction in the second round for repeated use of his elbow and suffer a cut in the fourth from an accidental head clash, Dignum captured the WBO European title via fifth-round TKO after referee Howard Foster stopped the contest to save Cummings from further punishment.[7] He successfully defended the title four months later on 7 March 2020, defeating Alfredo Meli via ninth-round TKO at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, Essex. Dignum dropped Meli three times with punches to the body – once in the seventh, again in the eighth and for the final time in the ninth – prompting Meli's corner to throw in the towel as the referee called a halt to the contest.[8]

Professional boxing record

ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes
19Loss16–2–1Denzel BentleyTKO211 May 2024
18Win16–1–1Lukasz MaciecPTS814 Apr 2023
17Win15–1–1Dustin AmmannTKO3 (6), 17 Mar 2023
16Loss14–1–1Janibek AlimkhanulyKO2 (12), 21 May 2022
15Win14–0–1Grant DennisTKO6 (10), 11 Feb 2022
14Draw13–0–1Andrey Sirotkin1017 Apr 2021
13Win13–0Alfredo MeliTKO9 (10), 7 Mar 2020
12Win12–0Conrad CummingsTKO5 (10), 9 Nov 2019
11Win11–0Rafał JackiewiczPTS811 May 2019
10Win10–0Gianni AntohPTS49 Mar 2019
9Win9–0Alistair Warren3 (6), 14 Dec 2018
8Win8–0Danny ShannonTKO4 (6), 21 Sep 2018
7Win7–0Konstantin AlexandrovTKO2 (4), 13 Jul 2018
6Win6–0Anthony FoxPTS66 Jun 2018
5Win5–0Darryl SharpPTS43 Feb 2018
4Win4–0Lewis van PoetschPTS41 Sep 2017
3Win3–0Yailton Neves41 Jul 2017
2Win2–0Iain JacksonTKO2 (4), 17 Mar 2017
1Win1–0Jimmy White2 (4), 26 Nov 2016

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Astbury . Matt . 21 May 2021 . Janibek Alimkhanuly vs. Danny Dignum: Date, fight time, TV channel and live stream DAZN News Mexico . 6 July 2022 . .
  2. Web site: Lupton. James. 22 March 2018. Climbing the ladder: Danny Dignum interview. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200605175627/https://www.boxingmonthly.com/stories/danny-dignum-interview/ . 5 June 2020 . 5 June 2020. Boxing Monthly. en-GB.
  3. Web site: Aldous. Ian. 19 January 2020. On the verge of big things - Danny Dignum Interview ⋆ Boxing News 24. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200605185502/https://www.boxingnews24.com/2020/01/on-the-verge-of-big-things-danny-dignum-interview/ . 5 June 2020 . 5 June 2020. Boxing News 24. en-US.
  4. Web site: 24 October 2013. Marshall takes World Combat Games gold. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200605141515/https://www.teamgb.com/news/marshall-takes-world-combat-games-gold?name=marshall-takes-world-combat-games-gold . 5 June 2020 . 5 June 2020. www.teamgb.com. en.
  5. Web site: 24 August 2014. Danny Dignum crashes out of the European Union of Boxing Championships event in Sofia. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200605185501/https://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/sport/11426019.danny-dignum-crashes-out-of-the-european-union-of-boxing-championships-event-in-sofia/ . 5 June 2020 . 5 June 2020. Thurrock Gazette. en.
  6. Web site: BoxRec: Danny Dignum vs. Jimmy White. 5 June 2020. boxrec.com.
  7. Web site: Fullerton. Gareth. 9 November 2019. Conrad Cummings stopped by Danny Dignum at York Hall. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20191213010253/https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/boxing/conrad-cummings-stopped-danny-dignum-17231356 . 13 December 2019 . 5 June 2020. belfastlive. en.
  8. Web site: 7 March 2020. Danny Dignum Drops Alfredo Meli Three Times, TKO in Ninth. 5 June 2020. BoxingScene.com. en-us.