Terry Flanagan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Terry Flanagan
Occupation	Boxer
Date Of Birth	Jun 11, 1989(1989-06-11)
Age	35
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Manchester
Horoscope	Gemini

Terry Flanagan Biography

Terry Flanagan is one of the most popular and richest Boxer who was born on June 11, 1989 in Manchester, United Kingdom. On October 26, 2017 on the 26th of October, 2017, WBO announced that Flanagan had given up their lightweight title to make the move into the division of light- welterweight. The same day, Crawford, the then WBO light-welterweight champion, also left to go up to Welterweight. Flanagan made it into his WBO rankings at number one and was the first fighter on the list to challenge for this vacant world title. Flanagan is likely to be a contender to NABO winner Maurice Hooker (23-0-3, 16 KOs) to win the vacant title in the world.

The fight took place in April 2013 under the card of Khan-Diaz in the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, Flanagan took on the former unification World Lightweight champion Nate Campbell (36-10-1 26, KOs). Campbell was forced to retire on his stool towards the end of round 4 due to an injury to his right hand.

Flanagan was set to make a third defence of his WBO lightweight title against former IBF super-featherweight champion Mzonke Fana (38-9, 16 KOs) on the undercard of Tyson Fury’s cancelled July 9 rematch with Wladimir Klitschko. Due to that fight being postponed, the fight was moved to take place at the Ice Arena in Cardiff on 16 July. Flanagan successfully defended his title with a battling win that went the full 12 rounds. Fana rallied after a fourth-round knockdown from a huge left hook but Flanagan’s class ensured a third successive title defence. Flanagan troubled Fana with another powerful left in the eighth before dropping him again in the final round. All three judges agreed a 120-106 points success to ensure Flanagan earned a 31st successive win.

Flanagan met Liverpudlian Derry Mathews (38-9-2, 20 KOs) in a rematch, the first being the Prizefighter semi final, which Flanagan won, at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on 12 March 2016. The fight was originally scheduled to take place on 13 February, but was postponed after Flanagan suffered a severe tendonitis on his left foot. Although Flanagan was penalized one point in round eight for throwing and landing an illegal forearm to the chin of Mathews, Flanagan won the fight convincingly via unanimous decision (115-112, 117-110, 117-110). Flanagan overcame a slow start before taking control of the fight in the second half. Both boxers were knocked down once in round 2.

Flanagan was a participant at The Prizefighter Series: The Lightweights II at the Olympia in Liverpool on October 6, 2012. In the quarter-finals Flanagan defeated Patrick Walsh (10-1, 3 KOs) with a unanimous decision of 29-28 in all 3 judges’ scores. In the semi-finals Flanagan defeated Derry Mathews (30-7-1, 16 KOs) in round 2 beating him via the decision 29-27 on all scorecards. Flanagan then went on to win the prizefighter competition in the final, defeating Gary Sykes (20-2, 5 KOs) by a split decision (29-28 29-28, 29-28, and 28-29).

Terry Flanagan Net Worth

Terry Flanagan is one of the richest Boxer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Terry Flanagan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

On July 26, 2014 Flanagan took title vacant BBBofC British lightweight title after beating British boxer Martin Gethin (24-5-1, 11 KOs). Gethin did not make it out for round 8 , as his right ear had been severely swelling.

On October 27, 2016 that Flanagan will be defending the WBO title against former world champion Orlando Cruz (25-4-1, 13 KOs) at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff on 26 November. The event was sponsored by Frank Warren which would also include Billy Joe Saunders first title defense in the fight against Artur Akavov. Cruz did not make it to the stage of becoming the first world boxing openly gay champion following defeat by knockout against Orlando Salido for the vacant WBO featherweight title in 2013. Flanagan was in the fourth defense. After a successful defense Flanagan could be set to fight in the future with the victor of the fight with Anthony Crolla and Jorge Linares. Flanagan spoke about the fight and said Cruz is a danger to his opponent however he is hoping to keep his title through stoppage. Flanagan defeated Cruz two times in the eighth round. The second one following a right-hand strike to the temple that led the referee Steve Gray to stop the fight just 43 second into round. Flanagan was dominant throughout the bout until the final bell.

At a press conference on 23 January 2017, Frank Warren announced that Flanagan would be making his fifth defence of his WBO world title against former super lightweight world title challenger Petr Petrov (38-4-2, 19 KO’s) on 8 April 2017 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester. This would be the first time since October 2015 that Flanagan would be fighting in his home city. The fight went the distance and Flanagan won via unanimous decision. One judge scored the fight a close 116-112 whilst the other two had wide margins of 118-110 and 120-108. Many media outlets including ESPN believed the wider scores were unfair and disrespectful to Petrov even though he may not have done enough to win the fight, he made a lot of rounds close and hard to score. Flanagan said he and his team would target the big names including Jorge Linares and Vasyl Lomachenko.

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Flanagan challenged WBO European lightweight champion Stephen Ormond (17-1, 8 KOs) on 14 February 2015 at the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. In round 9, Ormond was deducted a point for use of the head, and ultimately disqualified in round 10 for persistent use of the head, thus losing his belt in the process. At the time of disqualification, Flanagan was heading towards a unanimous decision win (88-82, 88-82, 88-82). The win ensured Flanagan would next fight for the WBO world title next. Possible opponents were Juan Diaz or Takahiro Ao.

Facts & Trivia

Terry Ranked on the list of most popular Boxer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Terry Flanagan celebrates birthday on June 11 of every year.

On 18 July 2018, Flanagan entered into the World Boxing Super Series:Light- welterweight tournament. The draw was scheduled to take place on 20 July at the Rossiya Theatre in Moscow. The other top light-welterweights to enter the tournament were Kiryl Relikh, Anthony Yigit, Ivan Baranchyk, Ryan Martin and Josh Taylor.