Graham Francis Cheney ( April 27, 1969 , Lithgow ) - Australian welterweight boxer , played for the Australian national team in the second half of the 1980s. Silver medalist of the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, winner of the bronze medal of the Commonwealth Games, winner of many international tournaments and national championships. In the period 1991-1996 he boxed at a professional level, but without special achievements.
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| Nickname | Spike cheney | |||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Australia | |||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | April 27, 1969 (aged 50) | |||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Lithgow | |||||||||||||
| Weight category | welterweight (66.7 kg) | |||||||||||||
| Rack | left-handed | |||||||||||||
| Height | 175 cm | |||||||||||||
| Trainer | Jeff Crowey | |||||||||||||
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| First fight | April 22, 1991 | |||||||||||||
| The last battle | March 25, 1996 | |||||||||||||
| Number of battles | twenty | |||||||||||||
| Number of wins | 17 | |||||||||||||
| KOs | eleven | |||||||||||||
| Defeat | 3 | |||||||||||||
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Biography
Graham Cheney was born on April 27, 1969 in the city of Lithgow , New South Wales . He was engaged in boxing from early childhood with coach Jeff Crowey, and showed decent results in both junior and adult competitions. Thanks to a series of successful appearances, he won the right to defend the country's honor at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , managed to reach the finals in the welterweight, but lost in the decisive match with a score of 0-5 to Soviet boxer Vyacheslav Yanovsky . The silver Olympic medal won was the second in the history of Australian boxing and the first in 80 years (the first was won by Reginald Baker at the 1908 Olympics in London). As one of the leaders of the national team, in 1990 Cheney participated in the classification of the Commonwealth Games in Auckland, in the first middle weight category he took third place. I wanted to qualify for the Olympic Games in Barcelona, but, without waiting, I switched to professional boxing.
In April 1991, Cheney spent his first professional fight, won by technical knockout of his Olympic team partner Darrell Hiles . Over the following months, he won several more victories, became the New South Wales middleweight champion, the Australian champion, as well as the international welterweight champion according to the World Boxing Council (WBC). The first loss in his professional career was in April 1994 from the little-known Australian boxer Alex Thuy. After this failure, he continued to enter the ring for another three years, won the belt of the Oceania champion according to the International Boxing Federation (ICF), defended the title of international champion, and confirmed his leadership in Australia. In March 1996, he lost to Russian Viktor Baranov by technical knockout and soon decided to end his career as an athlete.
In total, in professional boxing, Graham Cheney spent 20 fights, 17 of them ended in victory (including 11 ahead of schedule), three fights ended in defeat. After completing his sports career, he suffered from a manic-depressive disorder for a long time, expressed by sudden changes in mood from euphoria to severe despair - for this reason he had problems with the law and could not work in one place for a long time. Currently, he keeps himself under control by taking medication regularly [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Peter Cogoy. Spike's Mental Agony Sun Herald (August 30, 1998). Date of treatment August 15, 2013.
Links
- Graham Cheney - professional boxing statistics for BoxRec
- Graham Cheney - Olympic Statistics at Sports-Reference.com