Kieran Maher is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 professional boxer

Professional Boxing

Professional boxing, or prizefighting, emerged in the early twentieth century as boxing gradually attained legitimacy and became a regulated, sanctioned sport. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse which is divided among the fighters and promoters as determined by contract...

 who fights in the welterweight

Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...

 division.

Debut

Shortly after his 18th birthday, Maher signed with Ricky Hatton

Ricky Hatton

Richard John Hatton MBE, more commonly known as Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton, , is a former British professional boxer, and currently a promoter....

's promotional outfit and turned professional against Jason Nesbitt in August 2009 at the Manchester Velodrome

Manchester Velodrome

Manchester Velodrome is an indoor cycle-racing track or velodrome in Manchester, northwest England. It opened in September 1994 and is the leading indoor Olympic-standard track in the United Kingdom. It houses the National Cycling Centre and British Cycling...

, England on a card that included Michael Brodie

Michael Brodie

Michael Brodie is a former professional boxer who fought in the Super Bantamweight and Featherweight divisions.-Boxing career:...

 and Joe Murray

Joe Murray (boxer)

Joseph Murray is a former amateur boxer from Levenshulme, Manchester, England. He is best known for winning a medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships at bantamweight and has recently signed professional terms with Hatton Promotions. His brother John is the reigning British...

. The fight was stopped in the middle of the second round after the lights failed. However, Maher continued and came away from the fight victorious winning all four rounds.

Maher was trained by Lee Beard

Lee Beard

Lee Beard is a British boxing trainer. He is most well known for his work as assistant trainer to Ricky Hatton. He was also the trainer of Ricky's younger brother Matthew Hatton. When his trainer died, Beard took over the running of his gym at the age of 27...

 for his first three professional fights but following Beard's split with Team Hatton training was taken over by Bob Shannon.

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