Dean Byrne, (born 11 September 1984 in
Crumlin, Dublin
Crumlin () is a Southside suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Formerly a rural area, it became heavily built up from the early 20th century onwards. Crumlin is the site of Ireland's largest children's hospital, Our Lady's Children's Hospital.
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, Ireland) is an Irish
professional boxer
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who fights in the
light welterweight
Light welterweight, also known as junior welterweight or super lightweight, is a weight class in combat sports.
Boxing Professional boxing
In professional boxing, light welterweight is contested between the lightweight and welterweight divisions, ...
class.
Amateur career
Byrne, nicknamed ''"Irish Lightning"'', had vast experience boxing as an
amateur
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fighting out of Crumlin ABC and during his 200 amateur fights he became
Irish national intermediate light welterweight champion also represented Ireland at international level.
Professional career
Following the Irish senior championships, Byrne then emigrated to Australia where he then turned professional and had his first pro fight in February 2006.
Dean's unbeaten streak lasted until 28 October 2011. When, just 8 days after winning a Unanimous decision over Michael Frontin, Byrne took a major step up in class facing France's IBF International Light-Middleweight Champion, Frank Haroche Horta (then 26–8). An unprepared Byrne was outboxed up until the 8th round when his corner retired him due to an injury to his right hand.
Exactly six months later, Byrne fought the then 5–0 unbeaten Terry Holmes of England, and lost a narrow points decision over 8 rounds. Byrne had a comeback fight against Kevin McAuley winning a points decision over four rounds.
On 8 December 2012 Byrne stepped in on a week's notice as a late replacement to fight American contender
Carson Jones
Carson Jones (born August 19, 1986) is an American professional boxer at welterweight and the former USBA welterweight champion. He is also the former NABA light-middle weight champion, the former WBC Continental Americas light-middle weight cha ...
after
Lee Purdy
Lee Purdy (born 29 May 1987) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2013. He held the British Boxing Board of Control, British welterweight title in 2011, challenged once for the vacant Commonwealth welterweight title ...
pulled out of the fight due to having caught a virus. Byrne was supposed to be an easy win for Jones who was just recently coming off a majority decision loss to Britain's hard-punching golden boy
Kell Brook
Ezekiel "Kell" Brook (born 3 May 1986) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2022. He held the IBF welterweight title from 2014 to 2017, and challenged once for a unified middleweight world title in 2016. At regiona ...
, but Byrne managed to battle Jones to a draw.
Professional boxing record
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References
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1984 births
Living people
Irish expatriates in the United States
Irish male boxers
Light-welterweight boxers
Boxers from County Dublin
People from Crumlin, Dublin