Who are you looking for?

Install Famoose

Keep Famoose on your home screen or desktop for easy access.

Open this site in Chrome or Edge and look for Install app in the browser menu or address bar. If no install option appears, you can bookmark Famoose instead.

Famoose.co
Appearance
Text size
Page width
Colour
Discover›Sport
Contents
Nigel Benn
Athlete

Nigel Benn

Famoose for

World titles at middleweight and super-middleweight

WBO middleweight champion · WBC championship

Born
22 January 1964
Birthplace
Ilford, England

More people

Lionel MessiLeading Argentina to the 2022 World Cup title.Serena WilliamsWinning 23 Grand Slam singles titles.Usain BoltRunning 100 metres in 9.58 seconds.

Nigel Benn

Nigel Benn is a British former boxer known as the Dark Destroyer. His aggressive style and rivalry with Chris Eubank helped define an era of British boxing.

Early life

Ilford upbringing

His parents moved to Britain from Barbados; he joined the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers at eighteen.

Career

  1. 1986

    Amateur title

    Won the ABA middleweight championship.

  2. 1987

    Professional debut

    Began a career that continued until 1996.

  3. 1992

    Second weight division

    Won the WBC super-middleweight title.

Achievements

WBO middleweight champion

Defeated Doug DeWitt to win the title.

WBC championship

Held the super-middleweight belt.

Beyond sport

Army service

Served in West Germany and Northern Ireland before becoming a professional boxer.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author. CC BY 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.