Gary Woolcombe is a British

United Kingdom

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 light middleweight

Light middleweight

Light Middleweight , is a weight division in professional boxing, above 147 pounds and up to 154 pounds ....

 boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 managed by Frank Maloney

Frank Maloney

Frank Maloney is a boxing manager and promoter and United Kingdom Independence Party politician. He is most famous for managing Lennox Lewis to the Undisputed Heavyweight Championship of the World.-Early life:...

. He was born in Lewisham

Lewisham

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 on 4 August 1982. He won the vacant British light-middleweight title on 8 December 2007 after beating Marcus Portman at the Robin Park Centre in Wigan. He lost the title on 18 April 2008 to Ryan Rhodes

Ryan Rhodes

Ryan Rhodes is an English light middleweight boxer. Rhodes took up boxing at a young age, training at Brendan Ingle's gym in the Wincobank district of Sheffield.-Professional career:...

at York Hall, Bethnal Green after being knocked out in the ninth round.