Wayne Elcock

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Wayne Elcock
Born	(1974-02-12) 12 February 1974 (age 50) Birmingham, England
Nationality	British
Other names	Mad Dog
Statistics
Weight(s)	Middleweight
Height	5 ft 9+1⁄2 in (177 cm)
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	23
Wins	19
Wins by KO	9
Losses	4

Wayne Elcock (born 12 February 1974) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2009. He challenged once for the IBF middleweight title in 2007. At the regional level, he held the British middleweight title from 2007 to 2009.

Career[edit]

Elcock was managed by Frank Maloney at the start of his career and promoted by Panix promotions before moving after two winning fights to Frank Warren, then later to Mick Hennessy. Elcock was trained in Leicester to begin with by Jez Brogan, before moving to London to be trained by both Frank Maloney and Alan Smith, along with several visits to America to build on his skills. Wayne worked with Goody Petronelli, the trainer of former world champions Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Steve Collins, at his famous Brockton gym. Wayne came back to his home town to team up with Birmingham's most successful boxing trainers, Paddy and Tommy Lynch. Knocking out fellow contender Darren Rhodes in 1 minute 30 seconds in Elcocks homecoming and first ever fight with the Lynch brothers in Birmingham at a sold out Aston Events Centre, this setting up his first attempt at the prestigious British title Lonsdale Belt against Plymouth's Scott Dann (boxer) in the first British title fight to ever be scored by three judges, after defeat Wayne bounced back with two back to back knockout victories one of them a British title eliminator winning by TKO against Scotland's Lawrence Murphy, who was the only other boxer to have beaten Elcock, In Wayne's next contest he faced the English champion Steven Bendall who was to be yet another stopped, but this time over eight punishing rounds and setting up his next contest where he would become the first British boxer to beat long standing British and Commonwealth champion Howard Eastman to win the coveted Lonsdale Belt in 2007, Elcock also won the Commonwealth title and the minor WBU World Middleweight title becoming the first Birmingham born fighter to ever hold a version of a World title. Elcock challenged for the IBF middleweight title against the unbeaten World champion Arthur Abraham on 8 December 2007, losing by a fifth round knockout.^[1] Wayne bounced back from his world title attempt defending the lonsdale belt with a TKO win against local Dudley rival Darren McDermott, before losing the next defence to fellow Birmingham fighter Matthew Macklin in the Battle of Brum Elcock retired after this contest at the age of 36 with a record of 23 -19 - 9 KO’s to concentrate fully on his other businesses, today Wayne can be found mentoring in schools and behind the counter at Mad Dog's Boxing shop located in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, as well as coaching in the evening at the multi award winning company Wayne Elcock's Box Clever and training professional fighters at his Kronk Birmingham gym in Chelmsley Wood, which is not far from where he grew up in Shard End.^{[citation needed]}

Professional boxing record[edit]

No.	Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Round, time	Date	Location	More
23	Loss	19–4	Matthew Macklin	TKO	3 (12), 0:59	14 Mar 2009	Aston Villa Events Centre, Birmingham, England	Lost BBBofC British middleweight title
22	Win	19–3	Darren McDermott	TKO	2 (12), 0:50	20 Jun 2008	Wolverhampton Civic Centre, Wolverhampton, England	Retained BBBofC British middleweight title
21	Loss	18–3	Arthur Abraham	TKO	5 (12), 1:58	8 Dec 2007	St. Jakobshalle, Basel, Switzerland	For IBF middleweight title
20	Win	18–2	Howard Eastman	UD	12	28 Sep 2007	Coventry Skydome, Coventry, England	Won BBBofC British middleweight title
19	Win	17–2	Steve Bendall	TKO	8 (10), 1:30	1 Dec 2006	Aston Villa Leisure Centre, Birmingham, England	Won BBBofC English middleweight title
18	Win	16–2	Vinnie Baldassara	TKO	6 (10), 1:59	8 Sep 2006	International Convention Centre, Birmingham, England	Won vacant WBF International middleweight title
17	Win	15–2	Lawrence Murphy	TKO	5 (10), 2:15	6 May 2006	International Convention Centre, Birmingham, England
16	Loss	14–2	Scott Dann	UD	12	16 Sep 2005	The Pavilions, Plymouth, England	For BBBofC British middleweight title
15	Win	14–1	Darren Rhodes	KO	1 (6), 1:45	7 Apr 2005	Aston Villa Leisure Centre, Birmingham, England
14	Win	13–1	Michael Monaghan	PTS	4	5 Jun 2004	York Hall, London, England
13	Win	12–1	Farai Musiyiwa	PTS	6	7 Feb 2004	York Hall, London, England
12	Loss	11–1	Lawrence Murphy	KO	1 (12), 2:28	29 Nov 2003	Braehead Arena, Glasgow, Scotland	Lost WBU middleweight title
11	Win	11–0	Anthony Farnell	UD	12	5 Apr 2003	MEN Arena, Manchester, England	Won WBU middleweight title
10	Win	10–0	Yuri Tsarenka	PTS	10	15 Feb 2003	Wembley Conference Centre, London, England
9	Win	9–0	Jason Collins	TKO	1 (6), 1:53	23 Nov 2002	Storm Arena, Derby, England
8	Win	8–0	Ojay Abrahams	PTS	4	17 Aug 2002	Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, Wales
7	Win	7–0	Jason Collins	TKO	2 (6), 1:57	1 Jun 2002	MEN Arena, Manchester, England
6	Win	6–0	Howard Clarke	PTS	4	20 Apr 2002	Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Wales
5	Win	5–0	Charles Shodiya	TKO	1 (4), 1:12	2 Mar 2002	York Hall, London, England
4	Win	4–0	Valery Odin	PTS	4	9 Oct 2001	Wales National Ice Rink, Cardiff, Wales
3	Win	3–0	Darren Rhodes	PTS	4	7 Jul 2001	Manchester Velodrome, Manchester, England
2	Win	2–0	Sonny Pollard	TKO	3 (4), 2:04	4 Mar 2000	Werrington Sports Centre, Peterborough, England
1	Win	1–0	William Webster	PTS	6	2 Dec 1999	Moat House, Peterborough, England

See also[edit]

• List of British middleweight boxing champions

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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• Boxing record for Wayne Elcock from BoxRec (registration required)
• Official website
• www.maddogsboxing.com
• www.wayneelcocksboxcleverltd.com

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