Michael Brodie
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- For the American photographer, see Mike BrodieMike BrodieMike Brodie , best known by his pseudonym ""Polaroid Kidd"" is a self-trained American photographer from Pensacola, Florida.In 2003 Brodie left home at 18 to travel the rails across America. A friend gave him a camera and he found himself spending three years photographing the friends and...
Michael Brodie (born 10 May 1974 in Manchester
Manchester
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, England
England
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) is a former professional boxer who fought in the Super Bantamweight
Super Bantamweight
Super bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds, or roughly 55.34 kilograms....
and Featherweight
Featherweight
Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...
divisions.
Boxing career
Brodie boxed as an amateur before turning professional in October 1994, winning his first fight in Manchester, EnglandEngland
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, in which Brodie beat Warley
Warley
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Super Bantamweight
Super Bantamweight
Super bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds, or roughly 55.34 kilograms....
Graham McGrath with a knockout in the fifth round on a card that included fellow Mancunian's Wahid Fats, Carl Smith and Carl Harney.
Brodie won the vacant British super bantamweight
Super Bantamweight
Super bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds, or roughly 55.34 kilograms....
title, in March 1997 with ten round knockout win over Neil Swain at the Wythenshawe Forum in Manchester. The following year Brodie won the Commonwealth Super Bantamweight Title with a win over Brian Carr and later that year Brodie added the European (EBU) Super Bantamweight Title.
Brodie's first opportunity to fight for a world title belt in September 2000 after Mexican
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Erik Morales
Erik Morales
Érik Isaac Morales Elvira is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the first Mexican born boxer in history to win a world title in four weight classes and is the current WBC Light Welterweight Champion...
vacated his WBC
World Boxing Council
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Super bantamweight title. However, Brodie suffered the first defeat on his career when Willie Jorrin
Willie Jorrin
Guillermo Jaime Jorrin , better known as Willie Jorrin, is a boxer from Sacramento, California. Jorrin is a Mexican American. He is best known for squandering his championship with dubious decisions and inactivity. He ended his once promising career by losing to a journeyman...
beat Brodie on points to take the title.
In May 2002, Brodie won the WBF
World Boxing Foundation
The World Boxing Foundation was formed in 2004 to sanction championship boxing contests but has a history dating back to 1988 via its predecessor the World Boxing Federation...
Featherweight
Featherweight
Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...
Title and added the IBO
International Boxing Organization
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Featherweight Title in 2003.
On 18 October 2003, the brawling Chi In-Jin got a shot at the vacant WBC featherweight title against Michael Brodie, but came up short of the title with a draw. In the rematch the following year, he knocked out Brodie in the 7th round.