Scott Quigg

Scott Quigg (born 9 October 1988) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to 2020.

Quigg's professional debut came at the age of 18 on 21 April 2007 with a victory over Gary Shiel at the Jarvis Hotel in Manchester.

Throughout the rest of the year he won on four more occasions giving him a record of 5–0 at the end of 2007.

Quigg fought six more times in 2008, winning on each occasion, a run that included a victory over Ghana's tough journeyman Sumaila Badu in just the first round of a four-round contest.

Watching the contest Boxing News reporter Danny Flexen claimed that after watching over 50 live shows he had "never seen a more complete prospect " with less than 10 fights under his belt.

Quigg remained unbeaten with a further five victories on Hatton Promotions bills in 2009.

In his last fight of the year on 27 November Quigg met and stopped the former Ukrainian national champion and former European title challenger Yuriy Voronin in the sixth round of an 8-round fight at the Robin Park Centre in Wigan.

In 2010 Quigg defeated journeyman Nikita Lukin in Stoke on 19 February and then went on to meet Andrey Kostin in his home town of Bury on 29 May.

The victory over Kostin was particularly notable in that it was the first time a professional contest had been held in the town since the local council banned the sport 13 years previously, lifting the ban only so that Quigg could compete in his home town.

Quigg's homecoming didn't last too long as he triumphed with a stoppage over his Russian opponent in just one round and in front of 1200 fans saying after the fight that "this was one of the best days of my life".

Quigg fought a British title eliminator against tough Scotsman Gavin Reid in his next fight on 16 July 2010.

The fight at the Bolton Arena resulted in a 9th round stoppage win for Quigg against a man who had previously gone the distance in a challenge for the Scottish national title.

On 25 September 2010 Quigg returned to the Castle Leisure Centre in Bury to compete for the WBA Inter-Continental title against Argentinian boxer Santiago Allione stopping him in the third round.

He defended his title on 26 November 2010 at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton on the undercard of Matthew Hatton's European title defence against Roberto Belge.

His opponent, the experienced Frenchman Daniel Kodjo Sassou had won the IBF International title in his last fight against Arsen Martirosyan.

Quigg defeated Venezuela's Franklin Varela via a 7th round stoppage in his second defence on 23 July 2011, and was ranked fourth in the WBA.

On 22 October 2011 Quigg defeated Jason Booth (36–7, 15 KOs) to win the British Super-Bantamweight title at the Castle Leisure Centre in Bury.

After a one-sided contest Booth retired at the end of the seventh round.

Quigg managed to put Sassou down in the 7th round before running out a unanimous points winner over 12 rounds.

On 4 February 2012, Quigg made the first defence of his title, beating the rugged veteran Jamie Arthur (18–5, 4 KOs) in an eighth-round stoppage, despite being put on the canvas in the fourth.

On 16 June 2012 at the Velodrome in Manchester, Quigg faced rival English Super-Bantamweight Rendall Munroe (24–2, 10 KOs) for the Interim WBA Super-Bantamweight Title.

Munroe was badly cut over the right eye from an accidental head clash in the third round.

With the fight having to be stopped, it went to the scorecards resulting in a Technical Draw with neither man getting a win or a loss on their record, bringing a very big domestic clash to an extremely anticlimactic ending.

The rematch of this highly waited showdown against Rendall Munroe (24–2–1, 10 KOs) was made for the undercard of Ricky Hatton's comeback fight at the Manchester Arena on 24 November, the fight took place at a venue which had sold out within 6 hours of tickets being released.

Munroe came out strong in the first, winning it clearly with fast punches and a higher work rate.

After the first, however, Quigg upped it and was landing hard to the body with both rights and lefts round after round.

By the sixth Munroe was surely feeling it and it showed as he went down twice.

The second time the fight was stopped with no complaints from Munroe.

After this fight Quigg was promoted to WBA Regular Champion.

He held the WBA super-bantamweight title from 2013 to 2016, and the British super-bantamweight title from 2011 to 2012.

Quigg started his fight career as a child practising Muay Thai boxing at GFC Muay Thai in Bury.

After receiving a lot of attention and being tipped as a future champion in the sport, Quigg had one adult fight at professional rules in Muay Thai scoring a win, before taking the decision to change disciplines and focus his talents towards amateur boxing.

Quigg fought at the Bolton Arena on 29 June 2013 against Brazilian Willian Prado (21–3–1, 14 KOs) at Featherweight in a scheduled 10 round bout.

Quigg won the fight in round 3 after 2 minutes and 31 seconds by knockout.

It was announced on 17 July that Quigg would fight undefeated Cuban Yoandris Salinas (20–0–1, 13 KOs) for the WBA (Regular) super-bantamweight title.

The fight took place at the O2 Arena in London on 5 October 2013.

Salinas started strongly, however Quigg stepped up his tempo midway through the bout and took control, giving Salinas a torrid finish to the fight.

The fight went full 12 rounds as the scorecards declared it a majority draw.

Two of the judges had it 114–114 and the other awarded it to Quigg 115–113.

Quigg told Sky Sports that he felt he won the fight by at least 2 rounds.