Roy Rutherford (born 4 August 1973) is a British former

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who competed from 1998 to 2005. He held the

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title in 2003 and the English

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title from 2004 to 2005.

Career

From

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, Rutherford won the ABA

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championship in 1995, and started his professional career in February 1998 with a 6-round points win over David Kirk. After winning his first 12 fights he suffered his first defeat in October 2000 when he was outpointed by Richard Evatt at the

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. After a drawn fight with Nikolay Eremeev in April 2001, he stopped Marc Callaghan, Frederic Bonifai, and

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in his next three contests. In May 2003 he challenged for

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's British featherweight title in Liverpool; Rutherford won decisively on points to become British champion. He lost the title in his first defence, In November 2003 to

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. In February 2004, he stopped Steve Chinnock in four rounds to win the English featherweight title. In June he attempted to regain the British title from Williams but lost on points. He defended his English title in October 2005 against Billy Corcoran at the

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. He retired in the fourth round.Johanneson fighting for the family name
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'', 9 July 2006. Retrieved 15 February 2016 This proved to be Rutherford's final fight.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rutherford, Roy 1973 births Living people English male boxers Featherweight boxers Sportspeople from Coventry