Reece Bellotti

Reece Bellotti (born 7 December 1990) is an English professional boxer. He held the Commonwealth featherweight title from 2017 to 2018, and challenged once for the British featherweight title in 2018. As an amateur, he won two ABA national championships, one at bantamweight in 2012 and the 2013 featherweight title.^[4]

Early life[]

Reece Bellotti was born on 7 December 1990 in Watford, Hertfordshire. His father, like himself, is an electrician working in lighting in the film-industry, while his mother is a manager at a pre-school. Bellotti started boxing at age 15 as a means to keep fit at the South Oxhey Boxing Club in Watford. He had his first amateur fight at the age of 17, and under the tutelage of amateur trainer Mick Courtney, Bellotti went on to win the ABA bantamweight championships in 2012,^[5] and again at featherweight in 2013.^[6][7]

Professional career[]

Bellotti made his professional debut on 28 May 2015, at the York Hall in London, beating Joe Beeden by knockout (KO) in the first-round.^[8] After winning his first nine fights, eight by stoppage, Bellotti's first title shot came against Jamie Speight on 1 July 2017, at the O2 Arena, London, on the undercard of the Frank Buglioni vs. Ricky Summers British light-heavyweight title fight. Bellotti defeated Speight by technical knockout (TKO) in the eighth-round to capture the WBC International Silver featherweight title.^[9]

On 13 October 2017, he challenged Jason Cunningham for the Commonwealth featherweight title at the York Hall, London. The fight was the main event on a card televised on Sky Sports. In a back and forth contest, Bellotti dropped Cunningham in the fifth-round with a right hook to the head. Cunningham made it to his feet and saw out the remainder of the round, only to be stopped by a barrage of punches in the sixth, giving Bellotti the TKO win and Commonwealth featherweight title.^[10] He would defend his Commonwealth title against Ben Jones on 2 February 2018, at the O2 Arena, London, again winning by sixth-round TKO,^[11] only to lose the title in his second defence against Ryan Doyle on 6 June 2018, suffering his first professional defeat via TKO in the fifth-round.^[12]

On 22 December 2018, Bellotti challenged British featherweight champion Ryan Walsh at The O2 Arena. Bellotti went the distance for the third time in his career, losing by split decision (SD), with one judge scoring the bout 116–113 in Bellotti's favour, while the other two scored it 116–112 to Walsh.^[13]

Bellotti once again fought for the vacant WBC International Silver featherweight title on 11 October 2019, against Italian Francesco Grandelli at the PalaTrento in Trento, Italy. Bellotti lost the fight via SD over ten rounds. One judge had Bellotti winning with 96–95, while the other two scored the bout 96–95 and 96–94 for Grandelli.^[14]

Professional boxing record[]

No.	Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Round, time	Date	Location	Notes
19	Loss	14–5	Raymond Ford	TKO	3 (10), 1:23	14 Aug 2021	Matchroom Headquarters, Brentwood, England
18	Loss	14–4	Jordan Gill	UD	10	1 Aug 2020	Matchroom Fight Camp, Brentwood, England
17	Loss	14–3	Francesco Grandelli	SD	10	11 Oct 2019	PalaTrento, Trento, England	For WBC International Silver featherweight title
16	Win	14–2	Josue Bendana	KO	4 (6), 2:13	21 Jun 2019	York Hall, London, England
15	Loss	13–2	Ryan Walsh	SD	12	22 Dec 2018	The O2 Arena, London, England	For British featherweight title
14	Win	13–1	Brayan Mairena	PTS	6	27 Oct 2018	Copper Box Arena, London, England
13	Loss	12–1	Ryan Doyle	TKO	5 (12), 1:02	6 Jun 2018	York Hall, London, England	Lost Commonwealth featherweight title
12	Win	12–0	Ben Jones	TKO	6 (12), 0:19	3 Feb 2018	The O2 Arena, London, England	Retained Commonwealth featherweight title
11	Win	11–0	Jason Cunningham	TKO	6 (12), 0:40	13 Oct 2017	York Hall, London, England	Won Commonwealth featherweight title
10	Win	10–0	Jamie Speight	TKO	8 (10), 0:58	1 July 2017	The O2 Arena, London, England	Won vacant WBC International Silver featherweight title
9	Win	9–0	Dai Davis	KO	3 (10), 2:52	17 Mar 2017	York Hall, London, England
8	Win	8–0	Ian Bailey	RTD	7 (10), 3:00	26 Nov 2016	Wembley Arena, London, England
7	Win	7–0	Rafael Castillo	TKO	3 (8), 2:14	29 Sep 2016	York Hall, London, England
6	Win	6–0	Julio Buitrago	RTD	6 (8), 3:00	2 Apr 2016	Echo Arena, Liverpool, England
5	Win	5–0	Elvis Guillen	TKO	7 (8), 2:41	30 Jan 2016	Copper Box Arena, London, England
4	Win	4–0	Feycal Messaoudene	TKO	3 (6), 1:59	10 Oct 2015	York Hall, London, England
3	Win	3–0	Adel Hadjouis	PTS	6	12 Sep 2015	The O2 Arena, London, England
2	Win	2–0	Aron Szilagyi	TKO	2 (4), 1:18	4 Jul 2015	York Hall, London, England
1	Win	1–0	Joe Beeden	KO	1 (4), 0:50	28 May 2015	York Hall, London, England

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