Danny Dignum (born 17 March 1992) 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.
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.
Amateur career During a career in which he had around 85 fights with approximately 70 wins, he won the 2012 ABA Championships, a bronze medal at the 2013 World Combat Games and competed at the 2014 European Union Championships as part of the GB Boxing team.
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.
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. 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.
Professional boxing record
ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes19LossDenzel BentleyTKO211 May 202418Win16–1–1Lukasz MaciecPTS814 Apr 202317Win15–1–1Dustin AmmannTKO3 (6), 17 Mar 202316Loss14–1–1Janibek AlimkhanulyKO2 (12), 21 May 202215Win14–0–1Grant DennisTKO6 (10), 11 Feb 202214Draw13–0–1Andrey Sirotkin1017 Apr 202113Win13–0Alfredo MeliTKO9 (10), 7 Mar 202012Win12–0Conrad CummingsTKO5 (10), 9 Nov 201911Win11–0Rafał JackiewiczPTS811 May 201910Win10–0Gianni AntohPTS49 Mar 20199Win9–0Alistair Warren3 (6), 14 Dec 20188Win8–0Danny ShannonTKO4 (6), 21 Sep 20187Win7–0Konstantin AlexandrovTKO2 (4), 13 Jul 20186Win6–0Anthony FoxPTS66 Jun 20185Win5–0Darryl SharpPTS43 Feb 20184Win4–0Lewis van PoetschPTS41 Sep 20173Win3–0Yailton Neves41 Jul 20172Win2–0Iain JacksonTKO2 (4), 17 Mar 20171Win1–0Jimmy White2 (4), 26 Nov 2016
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