Tyan Booth
Benjamin Tyan Booth is a British professional boxer and YouTuber. He challenged once for the European Union middleweight title against Grzegorz Proksa in 2010, and at national level competed for Midlands Area welterweight and super-welterweight titles in 2007 and 2009, and the English super-welterweight title in 2013, respectively. He is the reigning Black Country White Collar Boxing light-heavyweight world champion.Early life
Tyan Booth was born in Nottingham, England. Booth's father is Black British, while his mother is White British, making him mixed-race. Booth had high ambitions for himself after moving from Nottingham to be based in Sheffield, to which Booth stated: "I've made a few sacrifices for my boxing to get where I am I gave up a nice home in Nottingham to sleep on a few floors in Sheffield so I could be close to the ." When Booth was growing up, he admired Naseem Hamed and Johnny Nelson.Amateur career
Booth began boxing at the Phoenix Amateur Boxing Club in Gedling, Nottingham, before transferring to the Wincobank gym in Sheffield, under the tutelage of Brendan Ingle and his sons John and Dominic.Professional career
Early career
Booth made his professional debut on 29 October 2005 at the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen, Scotland, with him going the full six-rounds, defeating Donvill Hendricks via a points decision. Referee Paul Graham scored the fight 59–56 in favour of Booth. On 8 November 2005, Booth rematched Hendricks at the Leeds United FC Banqueting Suite, which resulted in referee Mickey Vann scoring the fight 59–56 in Booth's favour. On 27 February 2006, Booth fought Jason Welborn in this third professional fight, with the fighter being a push too far for Welborn and after a tough fight became the first person to stop Welborn, whom was knocked out by a clubbing right-hook in the third round. Welborn later stated that "Booth who was about a stone heavier than me on the night, way too big Shortly after, I took a break from boxing ." Following his destruction of Welborn, Booth won a unanimous decision against Slovakian Richard Turba at Norbreck Castle Hotel in Blackpool. For his fifth-fight, Booth travelled to Lanzarote, Spain, where he lost a close points decision to future Spanish super-middleweight champion, Alexis Callero.Rise up the ranks
On 22 September 2006, after his loss against Callero, Booth returned with a points victory against highly touted George Hillyard at York Hall. In the following month, in what was described as the fight of the night, Booth skilfully outpointed Dawid Kowalski in what was described as "six thrilling rounds" at Afan Lido. He then had three more fights in the space of three months, defeating Chris Black, Peter Dunn, and Nathan Graham all via unanimous points decisions. On his fight with Dunn, Booth admitted that he was unhappy with his performance, to which he stated "I didn’t get a good reaction from the crowd that night because I dropped down to the level of my opponent, but there will be no holding me back this time."Booth vs. Gethin
After his defeat of Nathan Graham, on 21 February 2007, it was announced that he would face Darren Gethin, on the undercard of Carl Froch against Sergey Tatevosyan, at the Nottingham Arena in Nottingham for the Midlands Area welterweight title on 23 March 2007. On 23 March 2007, at Nottingham Arena, Graham defeated Booth via knockout in the tenth-round to secure the Midlands Area welterweight title. As Booth boxed well early on, Gethin, a crude pressure fighter, threw lots of punches, though Booth jabbed and moved, with him ultimately winning the first three rounds fairly comfortably. As the rounds wore on, Gethin began to make his pressure pay a little more, particularly with his overhand right, which kept catching Booth due to his low left hand. Booth boxed with the style of the Ingle gym, but it began to cost him, as he was caught with the right several times. Both began to tire, but Gethin's higher workrate began to tell, winning him rounds and, eventually, the tenth-round knockout win. Booth never saw the punch coming, a big right hand, and was out before he hit the floor. On 14 November, Booth was scheduled to face Kreshnik Qato on the undercard of Darren Barker and Ben Crampton for the vacant Commonwealth middleweight title at York Hall, however, the fight was cancelled. Another two losses followed: close points decisions over British fighters Chris Black and Matthew Hall in a 6-round and 8-round match, respectively. He returned, after his loss to Hall, to secure a knockout of Colin McNeil in the first round. Several months later, Booth lost a points decision to Kevin Concepcion.Booth vs. Marie-Sainte
On 7 March 2009, Booth fought future French middleweight champion Julien Marie-Sainte at Montreal Casino in Montreal, Canada, which resulted in Booth winning via split decision. The judges Richard DeCarufel, Jean Lapointe, and Benoît Rousseau scored the fight 77–75, 75–77, and 77–75. Booth displayed a particularly effective jab throughout, and as the fight progressed, Marie-Sainte managed to land favourable punches, both to the body and head, however, Marie-Sainte had difficulty in getting inside the pocket due to Booth's jab. After the fight, Marie-Sainte spoke of having difficulties in getting into the fight from the first-round, in which he added: " but then the machine kicked in. It's true that I didn't do the fight I wanted, because was not easy to box and was always on the move. Finally, it's things that happen. I thought I worked well enough to win, but the judges saw it differently. I am a little disappointed with the decision but here it is, I have to get up and continue."Booth vs. Portman
On 1 April 2009, Boxing Scene reported that George Hillyard wished to avenge his loss to Booth, at a bout which was scheduled for 11 April at York Hall on the undercard of Craig Watson defence of his Commonwealth welterweight title against John O'Donnell. Following the announcement, Hillyard spoke of his desire to rematch Booth, to which he spoke highly of Booth: "Booth's a decent fighter and he's coming off a big win in Canada last month. He's the kind of guy that's hard to look good against and I found that out to my cost before. But you need to show your class against those type of opponents and you need to be beating these guys if you want to start stepping up through the levels." However, it was announced that Booth would instead challenge Marcus Portman on 17 October for the vacant Midlands Area super-welterweight title, on the undercard of Carl Froch's defence of his WBC super-middleweight title against Andre Dirrell at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham. The event was part of the second Super Six super-middleweight tournament masterminded by American broadcaster Showtime. The winner of the scheduled bout was set to be next in line for the British super-welterweight title held by Anthony Small. At the weigh-in, Booth, 26 at the time of the fight, weighed in at 153 and three-quarter pounds, the lightest he had weighed since 2008; Portman, 29, came in lighter at 153 pounds. The opening round saw southpaw Portman and the orthodox Booth giving a tentative exchange, with the last few seconds ending in holding. Round two became littered with a few wild swings, and a severe lack of clean shots. Round three became clinch, move, swing, clinch, move, swing, though progressing to the fifth, Booth displayed efforts in his offense; the most exciting part of the round so far had arrived, in that wild punches were being landed by each fighter after the bell. In what looked like a lively move in round six, Portman was cut - suspected to be from a clash of heads; the bout was full of wild uncultured punches. Both men went the full 10 rounds, with referee Shaun Messer ultimately scoring the fight 96–96 as a draw.Booth vs. Proksa
On 10 January 2010, BBC reported that Booth was one of the rumoured candidates to be competing alongside Bradley Pryce for the first light-middleweight Prizefighter tournament, at the York Hall on 26 February. On 5 February, Fakt reported that Booth would face Polish Grzegorz Proksa for the vacant European Union middleweight title, as original fighter Marcus Portman was not approved by the European Boxing Union. On 12 February 2010, Booth failed to add the vacant European middleweight title to his belt collection, on the undercard of Lenny Daws' defence of his English super-lightweight title against Jason Cook at York Hall. At the weigh-in, Booth, 26 at the time of the fight, weighed in at 159 and three-quarter pounds, moving up a weight since Portman; Proksa, 25, came in lighter at 158 and three-quarter pounds. Proksa struggled early on with Booth's jab, height and reach. He was rocked by a right hand over the top which caught him on the temple in the second round, though he showed great resolve and soon enough his superior work rate and movement started to pay dividends. He was readily catching Booth to the body and coming in throwing strong combinations. Proksa's punch output was just too much for Booth and having dropped him in the fifth-round, referee Giuseppe Quartarone decided to call a halt to the bout, thus giving Proksa the vacant title. Speaking after the fight, Proksa mentioned the shot which Booth had caught im with in round-two: "For half a minute after that blow, I heard nothing, it was ringing in my head I was surprised by this blow, I don't know how it hit me. Then I wanted to kill him."Booth vs. Aston I
Following his loss to Proksa, Booth was announced to be returning on the undercard of Carl Froch's defence of his IBF super-middleweight title against American Yusaf Mack at the Nottingham Arena on 17 November, to face Ryan Aston. Of the encounter, Aston spoke of how he'll show everyone his fighting pride has not diminished against the slippery Booth, who has proved tricky for southpaws in the past, to which he added "It's a step up for me and I wanted that, I want to prove to people that last time was a hiccup and I have learned from it I am just glad it happened early on in my pro career. is a better boxer than , in every sense of the word, he's on the back-foot all of the time with that long jab. I want him to come and have a fight, it gives people what they want to see." Booth looked to take the centre of the ring and keep Aston on the outside. For a round, it worked, though Aston answered the bell for the second with a two-fisted offense that unsettled Booth. After that, Booth who was forced to grab in the closing moments of the round after more punches found the target. Aston kept the pressure on in the third round until he was cut under his right eyebrow. On the advice of the ringside doctor, referee Terry O'Connor declared the fight a technical draw.