| Ryan Rhodes | |
| Nickname: | Spice Boy |
| Weight: | |
| Height: | 5 ft 8+1/2 in |
| Nationality: | British |
| Birth Date: | 20 November 1976 |
| Birth Place: | Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England |
| Style: | Southpaw |
| Total: | 52 |
| Wins: | 46 |
| Ko: | 31 |
| Losses: | 6 |
Ryan Rhodes (born 20 November 1976) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1995 to 2012. He held the British super welterweight title twice, from 1996 to 1997 and in 2008, and the EBU European super welterweight title from 2009 to 2010. Additionally he challenged for the WBO middleweight title in 1997, and the WBC super welterweight title in 2011.
Rhodes took up boxing at a young age, training at Brendan Ingle's gym in the Wincobank district of Sheffield. At the age of 20, he defeated another Sheffield boxer Paul "Silky" Jones with a technical knock out in the eighth round to become the youngest post-war holder of the British title. He went on to win the belt outright in a record time of 90 days with wins over Peter Waudby and Del Bryan.[1]
On 13 December 1997, Rhodes stepped up a weight division to middleweight to challenge the Canadian Otis Grant for the vacant WBO title but was defeated by a unanimous decision.
On 18 April 2008, Rhodes knocked out Gary Woolcombe 37 seconds into the 9th round to regain the British light middleweight title, 11 years after he first won it. He defended his title for the first time as the main event on the Hayemaker Promotions boxing show in Sheffield. His opponent was Jamie Coyle, whom he defeated by a unanimous decision.[2]
Since then he has defeated Vincent Vuma of South Africa to win the WBC International light middleweight title and in doing so obtained a ranking in the top ten in the world.[3]
Rhodes was due to defend his British light middleweight title against the Londoner Anthony Small at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on 28 March 2008, but withdrew because of an illness during his training camp.
He defeated Jamie Moore in the seventh round of their European title fight on 23 October 2009. He defended the title again on 21 May 2010 at home against the Italian Luca Messi, with a technical knock out in the sixth round.
Rhodes lost his WBC light middleweight challenge bout against Canelo Álvarez with a technical knockout in the twelfth round on 18 June 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico.[4]
Rhodes announced his retirement from professional boxing on 4 September 2012.[5]
| Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | Loss | 46–6 | Sergey Rabchenko | TKO | 7 (12), | 16 Jun 2012 | |||
| 51 | Win | 46–5 | Sergey Khomitsky | PTS | 8 | 26 Nov 2011 | |||
| 50 | Loss | 45–5 | Canelo Álvarez | TKO | 12 (12), | 18 Jun 2011 | |||
| 49 | Win | 45–4 | Rocky Junior | TKO | 2 (8), | 4 Dec 2010 | |||
| 48 | Win | 44–4 | Luca Messi | TKO | 6 (12), | 21 May 2010 | |||
| 47 | Win | 43–4 | Jamie Moore | TKO | 7 (12), | 23 Oct 2009 | |||
| 46 | Win | 42–4 | Janos Petrovics | TKO | 7 (8), | 25 Apr 2009 | |||
| 45 | Win | 41–4 | Vincent Vuma | UD | 12 | 15 Nov 2008 | |||
| 44 | Win | 40–4 | Jamie Coyle | UD | 12 | 20 Sep 2008 | |||
| 43 | Win | 39–4 | Gary Woolcombe | KO | 9 (12), | 18 Apr 2008 | |||
| 42 | Win | 38–4 | Manoocha Salari | TKO | 4 (10), | 5 Dec 2007 | |||
| 41 | Win | 37–4 | Olufemi Moses | TKO | 2 (6), | 13 Oct 2007 | |||
| 40 | Win | 36–4 | Paul Buchanan | TKO | 1 (8), | 3 Jun 2007 | |||
| 39 | Loss | 35–4 | Gary Lockett | UD | 12 | 8 Jul 2006 | |||
| 38 | Win | 35–3 | Jevgenijs Andrejevs | PTS | 8 | 1 Jun 2006 | |||
| 37 | Win | 34–3 | Hussain Osman | 4 (8), | 25 Oct 2005 | ||||
| 36 | Win | 33–3 | Alan Gilbert | TKO | 2 (6), | 16 Jul 2005 | |||
| 35 | Win | 32–3 | Craig Lynch | TKO | 3 (6), | 3 Jun 2005 | |||
| 34 | Win | 31–3 | Peter Jackson | PTS | 6 | 22 Apr 2005 | |||
| 33 | Win | 30–3 | Tomas Da Silva | TKO | 4 (6), | 16 Apr 2004 | |||
| 32 | Win | 29–3 | Scott Dixon | PTS | 8 | 12 Mar 2004 | |||
| 31 | Win | 28–3 | Peter Jackson | PTS | 6 | 11 Dec 2003 | |||
| 30 | Win | 27–3 | Alan Gilbert | TKO | 5 (6), | 25 Jul 2003 | |||
| 29 | Win | 26–3 | Paul Wesley | KO | 3 (6), | 16 Apr 2003 | |||
| 28 | Loss | 25–3 | Lee Blundell | TKO | 3 (10), | 16 Mar 2002 | |||
| 27 | Win | 25–2 | Jason Collins | PTS | 4 | 27 Oct 2001 | |||
| 26 | Win | 24–2 | Yuri Tsarenka | PTS | 6 | 21 Jul 2001 | |||
| 25 | Win | 23–2 | Howard Clarke | PTS | 6 | 16 Dec 2000 | |||
| 24 | Win | 22–2 | Michael Alexander | PTS | 6 | 21 Oct 2000 | |||
| 23 | Win | 21–2 | Ojay Abrahams | PTS | 6 | 16 May 2000 | |||
| 22 | Win | 20–2 | Eddie Haley | TKO | 5 (8) | 15 Jan 2000 | |||
| 21 | Loss | 19–2 | Jason Matthews | KO | 2 (12), | 17 Jul 1999 | |||
| 20 | Win | 19–1 | Peter Mason | TKO | 1 (8), | 27 Mar 1999 | |||
| 19 | Win | 18–1 | Fidel Avendano | TKO | 1 (12), | 28 Nov 1998 | |||
| 18 | Win | 17–1 | Lorant Szabo | TKO | 8 (12), | 18 Jul 1998 | |||
| 17 | Loss | 16–1 | Otis Grant | 12 | 13 Dec 1997 | ||||
| 16 | Win | 16–0 | Yuri Epifantsev | TKO | 2 (8), | 11 Oct 1997 | |||
| 15 | Win | 15–0 | Ed Griffin | TKO | 2 (12), | 2 Aug 1997 | |||
| 14 | Win | 14–0 | Lindon Scarlett | TKO | 1 (8), | 12 Apr 1997 | |||
| 13 | Win | 13–0 | Del Bryan | KO | 7 (12), | 14 Mar 1997 | |||
| 12 | Win | 12–0 | Peter Waudby | KO | 1 (12), | 25 Feb 1997 | |||
| 11 | Win | 11–0 | Paul Jones | TKO | 8 (12) | 14 Dec 1996 | |||
| 10 | Win | 10–0 | Del Bryan | PTS | 6 | 14 Sep 1996 | |||
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Roy Chipperfield | TKO | 1 (6) | 25 Jun 1996 | |||
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Martin Jolley | TKO | 2 (8) | 11 May 1996 | |||
| 7 | Win | 7–0 | Martin Jolley | KO | 3 (6), | 26 Jan 1996 | |||
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | John Duckworth | TKO | 2 (6), | 20 Jan 1996 | |||
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Mark Lee Dawson | PTS | 6 | 10 Nov 1995 | |||
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | John Rice | TKO | 2 (6) | 15 Sep 1995 | |||
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Chris Richards | 6 | 6 May 1995 | ||||
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Seamus Casey | 1 (6), | 4 Mar 1995 | ||||
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Lee Crocker | 2 (6) | 4 Feb 1995 |