Wayne Elcock Explained

Wayne Elcock
Nationality:British
Nickname:Mad Dog
Weight:Middleweight
Birth Date:12 February 1974
Birth Place:Birmingham, England
Height:5 ft 9+1/2 in
Style:Orthodox
Total:23
Wins:19
Ko:9
Losses:4

Wayne Elcock (born 12 February 1974) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2009. He challenged once for the IBF middleweight title in 2007. At the regional level, he held the British middleweight title from 2007 to 2009.

Career

Elcock was managed by Frank Maloney at the start of his career and promoted by Panix promotions before moving after two winning fights to Frank Warren, then later to Mick Hennessy. Elcock was trained in Leicester to begin with by Jez Brogan, before moving to London to be trained by both Frank Maloney and Alan Smith, along with several visits to America to build on his skills. Wayne worked with Goody Petronelli, the trainer of former world champions Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Steve Collins, at his famous Brockton gym. Wayne came back to his home town to team up with Birmingham's most successful boxing trainers, Paddy and Tommy Lynch. Knocking out fellow contender Darren Rhodes in 1 minute 30 seconds in Elcocks homecoming and first ever fight with the Lynch brothers in Birmingham at a sold out Aston Events Centre, this setting up his first attempt at the prestigious British title Lonsdale Belt against Plymouth's Scott Dann (boxer) in the first British title fight to ever be scored by three judges, after defeat Wayne bounced back with two back to back knockout victories one of them a British title eliminator winning by TKO against Scotland's Lawrence Murphy, who was the only other boxer to have beaten Elcock, In Wayne's next contest he faced the English champion Steven Bendall who was to be yet another stopped, but this time over eight punishing rounds and setting up his next contest where he would become the first British boxer to beat long standing British and Commonwealth champion Howard Eastman to win the coveted Lonsdale Belt in 2007, Elcock also won the Commonwealth title and the minor WBU World Middleweight title becoming the first Birmingham born fighter to ever hold a version of a World title. Elcock challenged for the IBF middleweight title against the unbeaten World champion Arthur Abraham on 8 December 2007, losing by a fifth round knockout.[1] Wayne bounced back from his world title attempt defending the lonsdale belt with a TKO win against local Dudley rival Darren McDermott, before losing the next defence to fellow Birmingham fighter Matthew Macklin in the Battle of Brum Elcock retired after this contest at the age of 36 with a record of 23 -19 - 9 KO’s to concentrate fully on his other businesses, today Wayne can be found mentoring in schools and behind the counter at Mad Dog's Boxing shop located in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, as well as coaching in the evening at the multi award winning company Wayne Elcock's Box Clever and training professional fighters at his Kronk Birmingham gym in Chelmsley Wood, which is not far from where he grew up in Shard End.

Professional boxing record

ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationMore
23Loss19–4 Matthew MacklinTKO3 (12), 14 Mar 2009
22Win19–3 Darren McDermottTKO2 (12), 20 Jun 2008
21Loss18–3 Arthur AbrahamTKO5 (12), 8 Dec 2007
20Win18–2 Howard EastmanUD1228 Sep 2007
19Win17–2 Steve BendallTKO8 (10), 1 Dec 2006
18Win16–2 Vinnie BaldassaraTKO6 (10), 8 Sep 2006
17Win15–2 Lawrence MurphyTKO5 (10), 6 May 2006
16Loss14–2 Scott DannUD1216 Sep 2005
15Win14–1 Darren RhodesKO1 (6), 7 Apr 2005
14Win13–1 Michael MonaghanPTS45 Jun 2004
13Win12–1 Farai MusiyiwaPTS67 Feb 2004
12Loss11–1 Lawrence Murphy1 (12), 29 Nov 2003
11Win11–0 Anthony Farnell125 Apr 2003
10Win10–0 Yuri TsarenkaPTS1015 Feb 2003
9Win9–0 Jason CollinsTKO1 (6), 23 Nov 2002
8Win8–0 Ojay AbrahamsPTS417 Aug 2002
7Win7–0 Jason CollinsTKO2 (6), 1 Jun 2002
6Win6–0 Howard ClarkePTS420 Apr 2002
5Win5–0 Charles ShodiyaTKO1 (4), 2 Mar 2002
4Win4–0 Valery OdinPTS49 Oct 2001
3Win3–0 Darren RhodesPTS47 Jul 2001
2Win2–0 Sonny Pollard3 (4), 4 Mar 2000
1Win1–0 William Webster62 Dec 1999

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Notes and References

  1. News: 2007-12-08 . Elcock fails in world title bid . BBC . 2007-12-10 .