# Reece Bellotti

Reece Bellotti is an English professional boxer. He has held the British super-featherweight title since February 2024 and the Commonwealth title since 2023. He previously held the Commonwealth featherweight title from 2017 to 2018. As an amateur, he won two ABA national championships, one at bantamweight in 2012 and the 2013 featherweight title.

## Early life

Reece Bellotti was born on 7 December 1990 in Watford, Hertfordshire. His father, like himself, is an electrician working in lighting in the film-industry, while his mother is a manager at a pre-school. Bellotti started boxing at age 15 as a means to keep fit at the South Oxhey Boxing Club in Watford. He had his first amateur fight at the age of 17, and under the tutelage of amateur trainer Mick Courtney, Bellotti went on to win the ABA bantamweight championships in 2012, and again at featherweight in 2013.

## Professional career

Bellotti made his professional debut on 28 May 2015, at the York Hall in London, beating Joe Beeden by knockout (KO) in the first-round. After winning his first nine fights, eight by stoppage, Bellotti's first title shot came against Jamie Speight on 1 July 2017, at the O2 Arena, London, on the undercard of the Frank Buglioni vs. Ricky Summers British light-heavyweight title fight. Bellotti defeated Speight by technical knockout (TKO) in the eighth-round to capture the WBC International Silver featherweight title.
On 13 October 2017, he challenged Jason Cunningham for the Commonwealth featherweight title at the York Hall, London. The fight was the main event on a card televised on Sky Sports. In a back and forth contest, Bellotti dropped Cunningham in the fifth-round with a right hook to the head. Cunningham made it to his feet and saw out the remainder of the round, only to be stopped by a barrage of punches in the sixth, giving Bellotti the TKO win and Commonwealth featherweight title. He would defend his Commonwealth title against Ben Jones on 2 February 2018, at the O2 Arena, London, again winning by sixth-round TKO, only to lose the title in his second defence against Ryan Doyle on 6 June 2018, suffering his first professional defeat via TKO in the fifth-round.
On 22 December 2018, Bellotti challenged British featherweight champion Ryan Walsh at The O2 Arena. Bellotti went the distance for the third time in his career, losing by split decision (SD), with one judge scoring the bout 116–113 in Bellotti's favour, while the other two scored it 116–112 to Walsh.
Bellotti once again fought for the vacant WBC International Silver featherweight title on 11 October 2019, against Italian Francesco Grandelli at the PalaTrento in Trento, Italy. Bellotti lost the fight via SD over ten rounds. One judge had Bellotti winning with 96–95, while the other two scored the bout 96–95 and 96–94 for Grandelli.
Bellotti became a two-time Commonwealth champion when he won the vacant title via eighth round stoppage against Aqib Fiaz at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on 21 October 2023.
On February 10, 2024 in London, Bellotti was scheduled to face Liam Dillon for the British super featherweight title. He won the fight by unanimous decision.
He retained his titles on 15 February 2025 at the Co-op Live Arena in Manchester, when challenger Michael Gomez Jr retired at the start of round 10.

## Professional boxing record

| 25 fights | 20 wins | 5 losses |
| By knockout | 15 | 2 |
| By decision | 5 | 3 |
| No. | Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes |
| 25 | Win | 20–5 | Michael Gomez Jr | RTD | 10 (12), 0:01 | 15 Feb 2025 | Co-op Live Arena, Manchester, England | Retained Commonwealth and British super featherweight titles |
| 24 | Win | 19–5 | Levi Giles | UD | 12 | 6 Jul 2024 | Copper Box Arena, London, England | Retained Commonwealth and British super featherweight titles |
| 23 | Win | 18–5 | Liam Dillon | UD | 12 | 10 Feb 2024 | Indigo at The O2, Greenwich, England | Retained Commonwealth super featherweight title; Won British super featherweight title |
| 22 | Win | 17–5 | Aqib Fiaz | RTD | 8 (12), 3:00 | 21 Oct 2023 | Echo Arena, Liverpool, England | Won vacant Commonwealth super featherweight title |
| 21 | Win | 16–5 | Youssef Khoumari | UD | 10 | 10 Jun 2023 | Wembley Arena, London, England | |
| 20 | Win | 15–5 | Dean Dodge | TKO | 7 (10), 0:42 | 22 Apr 2022 | York Hall, London, England | |
| 19 | Loss | 14–5 | Raymond Ford | TKO | 3 (10), 0:39 | 14 Aug 2021 | Matchroom Headquarters, Brentwood, England | |
| 18 | Loss | 14–4 | Jordan Gill | UD | 10 | 1 Aug 2020 | Matchroom Fight Camp, Brentwood, England | |
| 17 | Loss | 14–3 | Francesco Grandelli | SD | 10 | 11 Oct 2019 | PalaTrento, Trento, Italy | For WBC International Silver featherweight title |
| 16 | Win | 14–2 | Josue Bendana | KO | 4 (6), 2:13 | 21 Jun 2019 | York Hall, London, England | |
| 15 | Loss | 13–2 | Ryan Walsh | SD | 12 | 22 Dec 2018 | The O2 Arena, London, England | For British featherweight title |
| 14 | Win | 13–1 | Brayan Mairena | PTS | 6 | 27 Oct 2018 | Copper Box Arena, London, England | |
| 13 | Loss | 12–1 | Ryan Doyle | TKO | 5 (12), 1:02 | 6 Jun 2018 | York Hall, London, England | Lost Commonwealth featherweight title |
| 12 | Win | 12–0 | Ben Jones | TKO | 6 (12), 0:19 | 3 Feb 2018 | The O2 Arena, London, England | Retained Commonwealth featherweight title |
| 11 | Win | 11–0 | Jason Cunningham | TKO | 6 (12), 0:40 | 13 Oct 2017 | York Hall, London, England | Won Commonwealth featherweight title |
| 10 | Win | 10–0 | Jamie Speight | TKO | 8 (10), 0:58 | 1 July 2017 | The O2 Arena, London, England | Won vacant WBC International Silver featherweight title |
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Dai Davis | KO | 3 (10), 2:52 | 17 Mar 2017 | York Hall, London, England | |
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Ian Bailey | RTD | 7 (10), 3:00 | 26 Nov 2016 | Wembley Arena, London, England | |
| 7 | Win | 7–0 | Rafael Castillo | TKO | 3 (8), 2:14 | 29 Sep 2016 | York Hall, London, England | |
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Julio Buitrago | RTD | 6 (8), 3:00 | 2 Apr 2016 | Echo Arena, Liverpool, England | |
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Elvis Guillen | TKO | 7 (8), 2:41 | 30 Jan 2016 | Copper Box Arena, London, England | |
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Feycal Messaoudene | TKO | 3 (6), 1:59 | 10 Oct 2015 | York Hall, London, England | |
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Adel Hadjouis | PTS | 6 | 12 Sep 2015 | The O2 Arena, London, England | |
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Aron Szilagyi | TKO | 2 (4), 1:18 | 4 Jul 2015 | York Hall, London, England | |
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Joe Beeden | KO | 1 (4), 0:50 | 28 May 2015 | York Hall, London, England | |