Ryan Doyle is an English

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who held the

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title in 2018.

Professional career

Doyle made his professional debut on 2 March 2012, scoring a third-round

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(TKO) victory against Michael Stupart at the Castle Leisure Centre in Bury, England. After compiling a record of 9–0 (5 KOs), he faced Ian Bailey for the vacant International Masters Gold

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title on 27 September 2014 at the Olympia in

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. Doyle suffered the first defeat of his career, losing via TKO in the tenth and final round. He bounced back from defeat with a TKO win against Dawid Knade in March 2015 followed by a

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(PTS) victory against Simas Volosinas in October. His next fight came the following month on 21 November against

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champion

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at the

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. The fight was scored a

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(SD), with one judge scoring in favour of Doyle with 96–95, the second scoring in favour of Lowe with 97–93, while the third scored it even at 95–95. After a TKO win against Ismail Anwar in March 2016, Doyle fought for the vacant English title in a rematch with Ian Bailey on 16 July at the

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in Manchester. Doyle dropped Bailey to the canvas in the first round en route to a

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(UD) victory to capture his first professional title. The three ringside judges scored the bout 99–90, 98–91 and 97–93. Following a stoppage win against Tamas Laska in a non-title fight in November, Doyle fought for the vacant WBA International super-featherweight title against

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on 10 June 2017 at the

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, Northern Ireland. Doyle suffered the second defeat of his career, losing via sixth-round

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(RTD) after Doyle's trainer pulled him out of the fight before the start of the seventh. He came back from defeat with two PTS wins to finish 2017–Lester Cantillano in October and Rafael Castillo in December–before challenging Commonwealth featherweight champion,

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, on 6 June 2018 at the

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. Doyle left the champion on unsteady legs in the fifth round after landing a right hand. He followed up with a barrage of punches to send Bellotti to the canvas, with referee Howard Foster immediately stepping in to call a halt to the contest, awarding Doyle a TKO win to capture the Commonwealth title. The first defence of his newly acquired title came four months later against

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on 27 October at the

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in London. Doyle was dropped to the canvas in the seventh round and after a follow-up attack by Gill, the referee stepped in and stopped the contest to prevent Doyle from taking further damage, handing him the third defeat of his career. Doyle would get the chance to regain the Commonwealth title in his next fight, challenging the new champion, Leigh Wood, on 10 May 2019 at the Motorpoint Arena in Wood's home city of

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. Doyle suffered his fourth defeat, being knocked to the canvas in the tenth round. Unable to get back to his feet, he was counted out while on the floor, resulting in a

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(KO) loss.

Professional boxing record

References

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