Andy Howson (born May 29, 1979) is a British Muay Thai fighter from The Bad Company gym based in Leeds. He is a five-time world champion in the 55 kg

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division. Howson retired from fighting in 2015. He later made a comeback to fighting on April 28, 2018 with 2nd round head kick knockout win over World Champion Gianpiero Sportelli from Italy. A few short months after this Andy was approached by the largest Martial Arts Organisation in the World today One Championship and signed a 5 fight deal. He is currently ranked no:5 in the One Championship Straw-weight Division.

Muay Thai career

During Andy's 24 year career he has remarkable achievements. Andy managed to become a 5 times world champion including prestigious WBC World title at 53.5 kg, 2x Intercontinental Champion, 2x Commonwealth champion, European champion, 2x British champion and English champion in his impressive 88 fight career where he picked up 74 wins (27 by KO) 13 losses and 1 draw. Andy is known outside of Thailand as one of the best ever bantamweight fighters and have proved this on many occasions by fighting and beating the best in his fighting career. Andy is a former UK no.1 and has only lost twice in his weight division against English opponents. For the past two decades Andy has passionately dedicated his time to the sport of Muay Thai, in the infamous gym Bad Company (Leeds). Since his humble beginnings Andy has gone on to compete across the world, testing his talents against best fighters in his weight. Andy is known as 'The Punisher', or 'Lord of War', for his aggressive fighting style and prodigious heart and for never give up attitude and always going for war to win. An excellent example of that i
Andy Howson vs Dean James
and the iconic round 4. Andy for years been fighting top caliber opponents and holds wins over names lik
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Mohamed Bouchareb
WBC World Title)
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(WMC World title), Weera 'Spicy' Minghton and many top level Thais including a Lumpiniee, Rajadamnern and Thailand champion Somboombap Phumpaneang (KO 1st round). Howson picked up his 5th world title in 2014 beating Mohamed Bouchareb on points for the vacant WBC bantamweight title. He then retired in 2015 after losing by stoppage to

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from Italy. Howson now runs the Muay Thai gym Science of 8 located in West Bromwich and is producing many champion fighters. Howson come back to fight k-1 world champion Gianpiero Sportelli from Monopoli in 2018. Andy Howson next fought Josh Tonna of Australia at ONE Championship: Warrior's Code on February 7, 2020. Howson lost the fight by second-round knockout.

Titles and accomplishments

International Sport Karate Association The ISKA (originally International Sport Karate Association, later also called the International Sport Kickboxing Association) is international bodies regulating sport karate and kickboxing matches. It is based in the United States. It was es ...

** 2008 ISKA Muay Thai World Bantamweight Champion *

World Muaythai Council The World Muaythai Council (WMC) is one of the oldest professional sanctioning organizations of Muaythai in the world for the sport. The organization was set up in 1995 by parliament resolution, and is incorporated by the Royal Thai Government a ...

** 2009 WMC World Super Bantamweight Champion *

WBC Muay Thai The World Boxing Council (WBC) is an international professional boxing organization. It is among the four major organizations which sanction professional boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Association (WBA), International Boxing Federation ...

** 2014 WBC Muay Thai World Bantamweight Champion

Muay Thai record

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Boxing record

References

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