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Charles "The Bull" Shepherd (also known as Charlie) is the former British, Commonwealth and World Super Featherweight boxing champion. Born in Burnley, Lancashire on 28 June 1970, Shepherd began boxing at the age of twelve, becoming a British ABA champion aged 15. ==Early career== Shepherd moved to Cumbria when he was sixteen and made a winning professional debut in 1991 against Chris Aston, and soon moved himself into a championship position by winning a series of bouts in his opponents backyard including against amateur star George Naylor in Liverpool, Southern Area Lightweight Champion Cham Joof in London, Midlands Area Lightweight Champion Karl Taylor and future WBO Light- Welterweight world title challenger Nigel Wenton. However 1994 proved to be a bad year for Shepherd first losing to the Commonwealth Champion Justin 'The Destroyer' Juuko, and then dropping a hometown decision to Tony Foster for the Central Area title. Nevertheless, Shepherd forced himself back into contention with 3 further wins, including knocking out the Midlands Super Featherweight champion Kelton Mckenzie in 7 pulsating rounds in April 1995 in Solihull. This earned him a crack at Michael Ayres for the British Lightweight Championship in Potters Bar the following month which he lost in an all out war in 3 rounds against the future WBO World title Challenger. Ultimately the setback convinced Shepherd to drop down to Super Featherweight and he returned at his new weight to destroy John Stovin in 4 rounds in December, and then he overcame a terrible cut to force a controversial stoppage against Swansea hard man Marc Smith at Crystal Palace in April1996. ThIs earned Shepherd earned a crack at the British Super Featherweight title in June 1996 against the defending champion PJ Gallagher, in which the champion needed to drag himself off the floor to win a wafer thin half point decision in one of the fights of the year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Shepherd (boxer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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