Benjamin Tyan Booth is a British professional boxer and YouTuber.
45 Facts About Tyan Booth
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Tyan Booth challenged once for the European Union middleweight title against Grzegorz Proksa in 2010, and at national level competed for Midlands Area welterweight and super-welterweight titles in 2007 and 2009, and the English super-welterweight title in 2013, respectively.
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Tyan Booth is the reigning Black Country White Collar Boxing light-heavyweight world champion.
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Tyan Booth began boxing at the Phoenix Amateur Boxing Club in Gedling, Nottingham, before transferring to the Wincobank gym in Sheffield, under the tutelage of Brendan Ingle and his sons John and Dominic.
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Tyan Booth made his professional debut on 29 October 2005 at the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen, Scotland, with him going the full six-rounds, defeating Donvill Hendricks via a points decision.
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On 27 February 2006, Tyan Booth fought Jason Welborn in this third professional fight, with the fighter being a push too far for Welborn and after a tough fight became the first person to stop Welborn, whom was knocked out by a clubbing right-hook in the third round.
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On 22 September 2006, after his loss against Callero, Tyan Booth returned with a points victory against highly touted George Hillyard at York Hall.
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Tyan Booth then had three more fights in the space of three months, defeating Chris Black, Peter Dunn, and Nathan Graham all via unanimous points decisions.
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Tyan Booth boxed with the style of the Ingle gym, but it began to cost him, as he was caught with the right several times.
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Tyan Booth never saw the punch coming, a big right hand, and was out before he hit the floor.
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Tyan Booth returned, after his loss to Hall, to secure a knockout of Colin McNeil in the first round.
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Several months later, Tyan Booth lost a points decision to Kevin Concepcion.
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On 7 March 2009, Tyan Booth fought future French middleweight champion Julien Marie-Sainte at Montreal Casino in Montreal, Canada, which resulted in Tyan Booth winning via split decision.
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Tyan Booth displayed a particularly effective jab throughout, and as the fight progressed, Marie-Sainte managed to land favourable punches, both to the body and head Marie-Sainte had difficulty in getting inside the pocket due to Tyan Booth's jab.
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The opening round saw southpaw Portman and the orthodox Tyan Booth giving a tentative exchange, with the last few seconds ending in holding.
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Round three became clinch, move, swing, clinch, move, swing, though progressing to the fifth, Tyan Booth displayed efforts in his offense; the most exciting part of the round so far had arrived, in that wild punches were being landed by each fighter after the bell.
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On 10 January 2010, BBC reported that Tyan Booth was one of the rumoured candidates to be competing alongside Bradley Pryce for the first light-middleweight Prizefighter tournament, at the York Hall on 26 February.
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On 12 February 2010, Tyan Booth failed to add the vacant European middleweight title to his belt collection, on the undercard of Lenny Daws' defence of his English super-lightweight title against Jason Cook at York Hall.
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Tyan Booth was rocked by a right hand over the top which caught him on the temple in the second round, though he showed great resolve and soon enough his superior work rate and movement started to pay dividends.
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Tyan Booth was readily catching Booth to the body and coming in throwing strong combinations.
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Proksa's punch output was just too much for Tyan Booth and having dropped him in the fifth-round, referee Giuseppe Quartarone decided to call a halt to the bout, thus giving Proksa the vacant title.
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Tyan Booth appeared to not be interested in boxing: he came to unsettle and frustrate his opponent.
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Tyan Booth kept up a strong work rate and went to war when an opening presented itself past Booth's dangling jab.
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Rounds one and two were Renda's, with Tyan Booth began spoiling with unnecessary clinches in the third but both men managed to fire off some stinging blows.
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Minutes later Tyan Booth resorted to delivering a nasty head butt, to which referee Grant Wallis made the decision to disqualify Tyan Booth.
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Originally, Mansouri was scheduled to face Nathan Graham that encounter was postponed due to an injury suffered by Graham, to which Tyan Booth stepped in at late notice as a replacement.
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Mansouri charged, but Tyan Booth was unfazed, using his jab and moving nicely.
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Tyan Booth did open up but Mansouri was very impressive in evading the shots.
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Just before the end of the first, Tyan Booth had success with a right hand which made Mansouri wince, with him returning to his corner in discomfort and concerned about his left eye.
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Tyan Booth opened up with determination to start the seventh, and Mansouri boxed off the back foot again.
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Mansouri was still scoring sporadically to the body, though Tyan Booth was hunting him down but not taking full advantage of the positions he was getting himself into, throwing ones and twos rather than sustained combinations.
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Tyan Booth cracked in a hard right early in the eighth but rather than pouncing on Mansouri he took his time which might not have been the best strategy given that Mansouri did look a little tired.
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Mansouri's courage had shown as Tyan Booth asked him a question in the ninth, with the Rotherham man coming back with a nice right hand; Tyan Booth was invariably on the front foot but he just couldn't nail Mansouri down.
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Tyan Booth landed a nice left hook to begin the final round.
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Tyan Booth charged but Mansouri stopped him with a counter right hook.
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Tyan Booth landed a hard overhand right but the final bell came before he could seek any advantage from it.
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Eubank Jr was the aggressor, throwing solid combinations before Tyan Booth tied him up on the ropes.
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Tyan Booth continued to box smart and use his range but Eubank Jr was growing in confidence, throwing the right hand over before moving inside to the body.
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On 21 September 2013, Tyan Booth returned to rematch Ryan Aston at the Liverpool Olympia in Liverpool.
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Tyan Booth confidently set out his jab and found little difficulty in landing against the southpaw Aston.
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On 7 December 2013, Tyan Booth faced undefeated British future British and Commonwealth champion Liam Williams at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, on the undercard of Liam Smith's defence of his British light-middleweight title against Mark Thompson.
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Tyan Booth found his feet in the fourth and put more into the fight, though Jones was still all over him and continued to hit hard for the rest of the round.
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Jones began to prove to be too much for Tyan Booth, which resulted in referee John Latham stopping the fight.
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Tyan Booth had relied on his vast height while too clinching within close-quarters, though had managed to cut the eye of Ozgul.
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On 27 February 2018, BBC reported that Tyan Booth had his boxing licence suspended following his comments on social media after the death of Scott Westgarth.