Ryan Burnett
| Ryan Burnett | |
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| Rated at | Bantamweight |
| Born |
21 May 1992 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 15 |
| Wins | 15 |
| Wins by KO | 9 |
| Losses | 0 |
| Draws | 0 |
| No contests | 0 |
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Ryan Burnett (born 21 May 1992) is a professional boxer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He currently holds the British, WBO European and WBC International Bantamweight titles.
Burnett was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is the middle child of three brothers, from a nationalist background. Burnett was educated at St Patrick's College, a Roman Catholic secondary school on the Antrim Road.
With an interest in boxing from as young as four years of age, Burnett began training at Belfast's Kronk Gym before moving to Gerry Storey's Holy Family Boxing Club, a gym famed for uniting boxers of different religious and political backgrounds. Fighters like Burnett and Paddy Barnes, have always trained here alongside fighters of unionist backgrounds such as Carl Frampton, which through the years has helped break down borders in their community.
While rising to number one in the AIBA World Youth amateur rankings, Burnett amassed a record of 94 wins and 4 losses. He claims to still "dispute most of them losses". Burnett won seven All Ireland titles and four Ulster titles in that time, along with several multi-nations tournament medals. The highlights of his amateur career however, were his silver and gold medal wins, in the World Youth Championships and the Olympic Youth Games respectively. After acquiring those medals, Burnett suffered a back injury that ruled him out of competition for a year, and hampered his opportunities for success at senior level. Not long after regaining fitness, Burnett decided to turn professional.
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