John Doherty (born 12 July 1962) is a British former
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who was British
super featherweight
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champion for three periods between 1986 and 1992.
Career
Born in
Bradford
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, Doherty made his professional debut in May 1982, losing by first round stoppage to Taffy Mills. After being unbeaten in his next 10 fights, he suffered a second defeat in September 1983 when he was beaten on points by Anthony Brown. Two months later he lost again (to Stuart Carmichael) but then put together an 11-fight unbeaten run which included a win over Steve Pollard to take the
BBBofC
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History
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featherweight
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Boxing
Professional boxing
History
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title.
In 1986 the BBBofC introduced a British title at super featherweight, and John Doherty (who was also sometimes known as Pat Doherty) met
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for the vacant title in January, John a late substitute for
Najib Daho; The fight went the distance, with John Doherty getting the verdict by a single point to become British champion.
In April, Doherty lost the title when he was stopped in six rounds by
Pat Cowdell.
In March 1989 Doherty challenged for
Racheed Lawal's European title in
Braedstrup,
Denmark
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, losing by fourth round knockout. In September he regained the British title, stopping defending champion
Floyd Havard
Floyd Havard (born 16 October 1965) is a Welsh former super featherweight boxer. He was twice British super featherweight champion, from 1988–1989 and 1994-1996. In 1994 he made an unsuccessful bid for the IBF super featherweight title agains ...
in the penultimate round of 12 at
Afan Lido
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. He lost the title in February 1990 when he was narrowly beaten on points by
Joey Jacobs.
After Jacobs had vacated, Doherty faced
Sean Murphy in May 1990 in an attempt to win it for a third time; Murphy knocked him out in the third round. In September 1991 he successfully challenged then champion
Sugar Gibiliru for the title, winning on points. He lost the title for a third time in April 1992,
Michael Armstrong stopping him in the seventh round, in what proved to be Doherty's final fight.
Doherty's went on to train his son Shaun, who followed in his footsteps and became a professional boxer.
Like father like son as Doherty aims to become British boxing champion
, ''Telegraph & Argus'', 11 February 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2016
References
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1962 births
Living people
English male boxers
Featherweight boxers
Super-featherweight boxers
Boxers from Bradford