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Born January 12th 1987 Matty Clarkson (aged 37) has built up a good career record of 12-2-2. With plenty of experience and now 16 fights as a pro, Clarkson hopes to move on to better things in future as he moves into the later stages of his career. Clarkson's longest KO streak is 1 fights long out of his 16 pro career fights.
In his debut fight, Clarkson's became only the 4th fighter to go the distance with Elvis Dube, winning by PTS in round 6 of 6. Clarkson rise in boxing continued with 8 fights against fighters such as Sam Couzens, Elvis Dube and Billy Boyle.
On October 12th, 2012, Clarkson took on and was defeated by Courtney Fry meaning his career tally went to 7-1-2. Taking the first setback of his career, the October 12th, 2012 Fry defeat went the full distance and ended via PTS. Fights against Elvis Dube, Carl Wild and Tshepang Mohale followed where he won all 3 fights taking his winning streak to 10 wins.
Pushing his career further, Clarkson fought Jamie Kelly on September 20th, 2013 adding to his winning record. Clarkson's fight against Jamie Kelly came in the 1st round of a 6 round fight via KO. Clarkson became the first person to stop Kelly.
Clarkson went into his next career fight with a record of 11-1-2 and took this to 12 wins with a win against Lee Duncan on March 22nd, 2014. In 2014 Clarkson fought his next opponent in Lee Duncan. A challenging 10 round fight that ended in Clarkson's favour as the judges awarded Clarkson the PTS victory. Clarkson was the 9th person to defeat Duncan.
Taking another knock in his career, Clarkson fought Travis Dickinson on May 17th, 2014 and was defeated by Dickinson. This bout proved to be the toughest of Clarkson's 16 career fights to date. Dickinson was too skilful and took 6 rounds to dispose of Clarkson. This was Clarkson's first stoppage defeat as he looks to move on and rebuild going forwards.