When John Ryder lost a Middleweight British title fight with Nick Blackwell in 2015, many people wrote off his chances of becoming an elite boxer. Those people were wrong. 

In November 2022 Ryder became a world champion at Super Middleweight and went on to take one of the sport’s all-time greats Saul ‘Canelo’ the distance in Mexico. 

He trains young fighters under the stewardship of his old coach Tony Sims in Essex, England.