# Wayne Elcock

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

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. 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.

## Professional boxing record

| 23 fights | 19 wins | 4 losses |
| By knockout | 9 | 3 |
| By decision | 10 | 1 |
| 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 | |