‘The Thrill’ Jordan Gill recently stepped up to the plate as he impressed in his home town of Peterbourough, whilst headlining a JD NextGen show. He moved to 23-0 (7ko’s) and also captured the WBA International featerweight title after stopping mexican fighter Emmanuel Dominguez in the 3rd round of a punch perfect performance. In this post, I will be looking at Jordan Gill’s proffesional journey so far, and what the future holds for this exctiting 24 year old.
The Journey so far
Gill turned pro at the age of 18, having his first fight in July 2012. He had a fairly slow start to the pro game, fighting journeymen or low level fighters for the majority of the first five years of his career. For the first 16 fights of his career, he fought out of the Ingle gym in Sheffield with trainer Dominic Ingle, but felt he was going stale there and was not active enough, so he decided to make the switch over to Rotheram based Dave Coldwell, and now trains alongside the likes of Anthony Fowler, Dereck Chisora and the McDonnell twins. Since the switch, the featherweight has come on leaps and bounds, capturing multiple wins agaisnt decent level opposition, including Jason Cunningham, then Ryan Doyle to capture the commonwealth title and more recently Emmanuel Dominguez. Gill and trainer Coldwell look a great pairing together and have high ambitions for the future, and look to quickly move on up through the ranks and claim more titles.
What Next?
There are many fights available for Gill to take next. The British Boxing board of control have recently ordered Ryan Walsh to defend his British featherweight title against Gill, and have set a deadline for purse bids for April 10th. At the end of Gills last fight, he also called out current European champion Kiko Martinez for a bout, which would also be a good fight for him to take, and if he won it would shoot him up the rankings and put him in contention for big fights in the future. In my opinion, I think the Walsh fight would be perfect for Gill and Coldwell to take, as it would allow him to capture another belt and also cement his place as one of the best domestic feathweights around. After this fight he could then move onto tougher teste at European level such as Martinez, and I hope to see him move on to world level fights before long.
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