Danny Dignum


Danny Dignum is an English professional boxer who has held the WBO European middleweight title since 2019. As an amateur he won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Combat Games.

Early life

Danny Dignum was born on 17 March 1992 in Essex, England. He attended St. Margaret's primary school in his home town of Bowers Gifford before attending The Appleton School in South Benfleet. He worked alongside his dad and twin brother as a tarmacer and concreter before taking up boxing full time. After his parents became fed up of he and his twin brother fighting, both began boxing at the age of nine on their father's suggestion.

Amateur career

During a career in which he had around 85 fights with approximately 70 wins, he won the 2012 ABA Championships, a bronze medal at the 2013 World Combat Games and competed at the 2014 European Union Championships as part of the GB Boxing team.

Professional career

Dignum made his professional debut on 26 November 2016, scoring a second-round technical knockout victory over Jimmy White at the Wembley Arena in London.
After compiling a record of 11–0 he faced Conrad Cummings for the vacant WBO European middleweight title on 9 November 2019 at the York Hall in London. In a fight which saw Cummings receive a point deduction in the second round for repeated use of his elbow and suffer a cut in the fourth from an accidental head clash, Dignum captured the WBO European title via fifth-round TKO after referee Howard Foster stopped the contest to save Dignum from further punishment. He successfully defended the title four months later on 7 March 2020, defeating Alfredo Meli via ninth-round TKO at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, Essex. Dignum dropped Meli three times with punches to the body – once in the seventh, again in the eighth and for the final time in the ninth – prompting Meli's corner to throw in the towel as the referee called a halt to the contest.

Professional boxing record

No.ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes
13Win13–0 Alfredo MeliTKO9, 0:397 Mar 2020Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, England.png" />Retained WBO European middleweight title
12Win12–0 Conrad CummingsTKO5, 0:219 Nov 2019Won vacant WBO European middleweight title
11Win11–0 Rafał JackiewiczPTS811 May 2019
10Win10–0 Gianni AntohPTS49 Mar 2019
9Win9–0 Alistair Warren3, 1:5614 Dec 2018
8Win8–0 Danny ShannonTKO4, 1:2521 Sep 2018
7Win7–0 Konstantin AlexandrovTKO2, 2:3913 Jul 2018
6Win6–0 Anthony FoxPTS66 Jun 2018
5Win5–0 Darryl SharpPTS43 Feb 2018The O2 Arena, London, England.png" />
4Win4–0 Lewis van PoetschPTS41 Sep 2017
3Win3–0 Yailton Neves41 Jul 2017O2 Arena, London, England.png" />
2Win2–0 Iain JacksonTKO2, 1:4117 Mar 2017
1Win1–0 Jimmy White2, 0:5626 Nov 2016