Matt Skelton

Description: Sport: Boxing / Sport Topic: Boxers & Coaches / A British boxer and European heavyweight champion.

Newest Review: ... Pianeta was cruising to victory with out too many problems. With a record of 22-4 (29KO's) and aged 42 it looks likely that Matt Skelton may have fought his last fight. For a guy to get into the sport in his mid 30's he did rather well, becoming British champion, a 2 time Commonwealth champion, a WBU "world" champion, a European champion. a WBA title challenger and a European Union ... more

... contender in such a short career. Though with the door likely shut behind this chapter of his life, it'd be nice to see him stay in the sport in some way, such as an analyst as he seems to know the game pretty well. A tough brawling fighter did his ...more

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Matt Skelton: An old School Warrior-The Bedford Bear (1371 words)
by - written on 10/12/09 (Very useful, 26 readings)
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When you come into the sport of boxing aged 35 you don't usually expect to get much out of your career, though Matt Skelton tried his hardest to prove that sort of logic wrong. Born in Bedford in January 1967 he first established himself in kick-boxing where he was the IKF world champion having taken the title from Jeff Ford in the Super Heavyweight division. From the IKF's own website Skelton had a record of 57-8 with 57KO's an excellent record by any standards, how ever he only ever defended his belt once, against Peter Varga (KO round 3). He would also fight in K-1 for a while trying to show his kick-boxing was amongst the best for of Martial Arts in the ... Read the complete review

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