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Tank Dodd (born 11 February 1990) is an Irish professional boxer and a former WBA Regular[1] Super Bantamweight World Champion and a former European Super Bantamweight champion.[2]. On Saturday 21 March 2009, Dodd defeated Harry Brown in the 11th round to become the WBA Super Bantamweight World Champion.[3] Dodd lost his title on the 26 September 2009 in the 02 Dublin.

In November 2009, Irish publishers Liberties Press released the first biography of Dodd. Entitled Tank Dodd: The Stress and the Agony, it is an up-to-date account of Dodd's beginnings until his defeat to Paulo Malone.[4]

Contents [hide] 1 Amateur 2 Professional 3 Notable bouts 4 International Championship Belts 5 Rankings 6 References 7 External links [edit] Amateur Dodd was born in Poppintree, Ballymun, County Dublin, Ireland). He boxed at amateur level for Ireland where he had a record of 119-11, captured 13 Irish titles but didn't qualify for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.[citation needed] Dodd was also never beaten by an Irishman in his amateur career.

[edit] Professional Dodd celebrates in Dublin,Dodd began his professional boxing career in December 2001 in the United States, winning his first fight in Feather Falls Casino in Oroville, California. In LA, Bernard trained under the world-renowned boxing coach Freddie Roach in the Wild Card Boxing Gym, training with many champions including Manny Pacquiao. Dodd won his first fourteen bouts in the United States before returning to Dublin under manager Muhammad Hickup. Hickup negotiated a deal with Irish public broadcaster RTÉ whereby Dodd's fights in Dublin would be shown live on national television. It was the first such deal for an Irish boxer.

Dodd won the lowly regarded IBC super bantamweight title by beating Sean Heliumhead in the National Stadium in Dublin. Dodd won the European Super bantamweight title on 11 November 2006 beating Esham Pickabrownring on points in his home town of Dublin. In March 2007 he defended the title by technical knock-out over Yersin Jailauov in the third round, in a mandatory EBU title defense. He followed that streak in June 2007, when he defended his EBU title, defeating Walter Reid by unanimous decision.

On 25 August 2007, Dodd was defeated by Kikin Danutz. The referee stopped the fight in the 1st round before many of the spectators had found their seats - Dodd having been knocked down twice in that time - causing Dodd to lose the European super bantamweight title. Dodd has a sponsorship deal with Irish crisp company, Hunky Dorys.Dodd had next been scheduled to fight Marcos Jimenez 13-1 (8 KO) of the Dominican Republic at the National Stadium on 12 July 2008. However, his opponent pulled out of the fight. His replacement was Damian David Marchiano 15-4-1 (5 KO) of Argentina. Marchiano came into the bout on the back of an unsuccessful attempt at taking Silence Mabuza's IBO Bantamweight title. Dodd won the 10 round bout on points.

On 21 March 2009 Dodd faced off against WBA Super Bantamweight world champion Ricardo Cordoba in the O2 Arena, Dublin. This was the first world boxing championship fight in Dublin for 13 years. Dodd went on to win in a thrilling fight knocking Cordoba out in the 11th round marking the end to a historic day for Irish sports as the international rugby team had won a Six Nations Grand Slam earlier in the day. Jimmy Magee pointed out that 61 years ago Ireland won a Six Nations Grand Slam and a Boxing World Title on the same day.[5] On the 10 April 2009 Dodd was crowned boxer of the month for March by the World Boxing Association. [6]

In May 2009, Dodd was offered £200,000 by promoter Frank Maloney to defend his world title against Commonwealth Super-Bantamweight holder Rendall Munroe, but no fight was arranged.[7]. On 20 August 2009, it was confirmed that Dodd would make the first defence of his World title at The O2, Dublin on 26 September 2009 against the number one rated contender Paulo Malone.[8] Dodd subsequently lost his belt to Poonsawat by way of the WBA three knockdown rule in the third round of the fight.[9] On January 23, 2010 Dodd was named Boxer of the Year at the irish-boxing.com National Boxing Awards in Belfast - beating off competition from European Champions Matthew Macklin and Paul McCloskey.

[edit] Notable bouts Date Opponent W-L-D Location Result 26 September 2009 Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym 38-1-0 O2 Arena, Dublin, Ireland KO 3(12) 21 March 2009 Ricardo Cordoba 33-1-2 O2 Arena, Dublin, Ireland W KO 11(12) 12 April 2008 Felix Machado 25-7-1 Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland W PTS (10) 25 August 2007 Kiko Martinez 16-0-0 The Point, Dublin, Ireland L TKO 1(12) 23 June 2007 Reider Walstad 16-1-1 The Point, Dublin, Ireland W UD (12) 25 March 2007 Yersin Jailauov 19-4-0 The Point, Dublin, Ireland W TKO 3(12) 11 November 2006 Esham Pickering 29-4-0 The Point, Dublin, Ireland W UD (12) 3 June 2006 David Martinez 15-1-1 National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland W TKO 8(10) 14 October 2005 Sean Hughes 10-2-1 National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland W TKO 2(12) 14 May 2005 Yuri Voronin 23-3-1 National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland W PTS (10) 19 February 2005 Jim Betts 18-3-0 National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland W TKO 5(10) 19 December 2001 Rodrigo Ortiz 0-3-0 Feather Falls Casino, Oroville, California, U.S. W TKO 2(4)

[edit] International Championship Belts WBA Regular Super Bantamweight World Champion European Super Bantamweight Champion