Rhys Roberts
Rhys Roberts is a former Super bantamweight, super-bantamweight boxer from Manchester, England, who was active between 2007 and 2012.Box Rec
Retrieved 2021-03-21. He was signed to Ricky Hatton's Hatton Promotions. Roberts made his professional debut in 2007, defeating Delroy Spencer on points after six completed rounds. He had 16 victories in his 19 professional fights. These included a victory over Georgian George Gachechiladze for the vacant International Masters featherweight title in 2010. He suffered two losses, the first being against Daniel Kodjo Sassou when he sustained a hand injury in the opening round and was forced to retire on his stool.

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Super-bantamweight
Super bantamweight, also known as junior featherweight, is a weight class in professional boxing, contested from and up to . There were attempts by boxing promoters in the 1920s to establish this weight class, but few sanctioning organizations or state athletic commissions would recognize it. Jack Wolf won recognition as champion when he beat Joe Lynch at Madison Square Garden on September 21, 1922, but afterwards the weight division fell into disuse. The division was revived in the 1970s and the first title fight in 54 years in the division took place in 1976 when the World Boxing Council recognized Rigoberto Riasco as its champion when he defeated Waruinge Nakayama in eight rounds. The World Boxing Association crowned its first champion in 1977 when Soo Hwan Hong knocked out Hector Carasquilla in three rounds to win the inaugural WBA championship. In 1983 the International Boxing Federation sanctioned the bout between Bobby Berna and Seung-In Suh for its first title. Berna won ...
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