Joe Joyce (boxer)
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| Full name | Joseph Joyce | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Great Britain England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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19 September 1985 (age 30) London, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 17 st (240 lb; 110 kg)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rated at | Super heavyweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Joseph "Joe" Joyce (born 19 September 1985 in London) is an amateur boxer from England.[2][3]
Amateur career
Born to a Scots-born Irish father and a mother of Nigerian ancestry, Joyce took up boxing at the age of 22, injuries having curtailed his interest in track and field athletics, and joined Earlsfield ABC.[1] He competed in the men's super heavyweight division at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won the gold medal.[2] He also won he title at the 2015 European Games in Baku.[4]
Joyce won the super heavyweight class at the 2012 ABA Championships and 2012 GB Amateur Boxing Championships.
He won the bronze in his class at the 2013 European Amateur Boxing Championships after getting KOd by defending Russian champion Sergei Kuzmin in the semifinal.[5]
At the 2013 AIBA World Boxing Championships he was KOd again, this time by unsung Algerian Hamza Beguerni.[6]
He had success during 2015 and 2016 in the World Series of Boxing, and in April 2016 won a gold medal at the European Olympic trials to qualify for the Olypmics.[7][8] He has indicated that if successful at the Olympics he will consider turning professional.[1]
Outside the ring, he is a proficient artist, having graduated with a 2:1 degree in fine arts from Middlesex University.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Hubbard, Alan (2015) "Joe Joyce: Portrait of the artist as an Olympic boxer", The Independent, 28 March 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2016
- 1 2 "Joseph Joyce". Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
- ↑ "Joe Joyce eager to follow in footsteps of Lennox Lewis and grab Commonwealth glory". Daily Star. 2 August 2014.
- ↑ 2015 Baku results
- ↑ Results Euro 2013
- ↑ World Championships 2013
- ↑ Gigney, George (2016) "British Lionhearts crush USA Knockouts to stay unbeaten", Boxing News, 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016
- ↑ "Olympic boxing: Joe Joyce qualifies for Rio 2016 with gold medal", BBC, 17 April 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016
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