| Willy Hutchinson | |
| Nickname: | Braveheart |
| Weight: | Light-heavyweight |
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in[1] |
| Reach: | 73 in |
| Birth Date: | 1998 8, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Carstairs, Scotland |
| Style: | Orthodox |
| Boxrec: | 811747 |
| Total: | 20 |
| Wins: | 18 |
| Ko: | 13 |
| Losses: | 2 |
William Hutchinson (born 4 August 1998[2]) is a Scottish professional boxer. He has challenged once for the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles in 2021. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2016 Youth World Championships in the middleweight division.
Hutchinson is regarded as one of Scotland's most successful amateur boxers,[3] winning gold medals at the 2014 European Junior Championships and 2016 Youth World Championships—becoming the first Scottish boxer to win gold at an amateur World Championships.[4]
Under the tutelage of renowned Cuban trainer, Ismael Salas, and being guided by David Haye's RingStar Promotions[4] with Shelly Finkel as manager,[5] Hutchinson made his professional debut on 20 October 2017, scoring a first-round technical knockout (TKO) victory against Attila Nagy at the indigo at The O2 in London.[6]
He scored another TKO victory in December—defeating Cyrille Joly in the second round[7] —followed by a six-round points decision (PTS) victory against Eric Mokonzo in February 2018.[8] After his win over Mokonzo, Hutchinson switched trainers from Salas to Dominic Ingle.[5]
In the following May it was announced that Hutchinson had also switched promoters, signing with Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions.[9]
Hutchinson fought Joshua Buatsi for the WBO interim light-heavyweight title at Wembley Stadium on 21 September 2024. He was twice knocked to the canvas before losing the contest via split decision with two ringside judges scoring the fight for his opponent 117-108 and 115-110 respectively, while the third had it in his favour 113-112.[10] [11]
| Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Loss | 18–2 | Joshua Buatsi | SD | 12 | 21 Sep 2024 | |||
| 19 | Win | 18–1 | Craig Richards | UD | 12 | 1 June 2024 | |||
| 18 | Win | 17–1 | Martin Houben | 2 (10), | 22 March 2024 | ||||
| 17 | Win | 16–1 | Ezequiel Maderna | 4 (10), | 12 May 2023 | ||||
| 16 | Win | 15–1 | Luca Spadicini | TKO | 7 (10), | 11 Nov 2022 | |||
| 15 | Win | 14–1 | Karel Horejsek | RTD | 3 (8), | 11 Jun 2022 | |||
| 14 | Loss | 13–1 | Lennox Clarke | TKO | 5 (12), | 27 Mar 2021 | |||
| 13 | Win | 13–0 | Jose Miguel Fandino | TKO | 1 (10), | 10 Oct 2020 | |||
| 12 | Win | 12–0 | Ben Thomas | TKO | 1 (10), | 28 Aug 2020 | |||
| 11 | Win | 11–0 | Edgars Sniedze | PTS | 6 | 22 Feb 2020 | |||
| 10 | Win | 10–0 | Borislav Zankov | TKO | 2 (8), | 27 Sep 2019 | |||
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Josip Perkovic | PTS | 6 | 13 Jul 2019 | |||
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Ondrej Budera | TKO | 3 (6), | 18 May 2019 | |||
| 7 | Win | 7–0 | Daniel Borisov | TKO | 4 (4), | 23 Mar 2019 | |||
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Ferenc Albert | TKO | 2 (6), | 19 Nov 2018 | |||
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Taha Mirhosseini | TKO | 3 (6), | 24 Aug 2018 | |||
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Adam Jones | PTS | 4 | 19 May 2018 | |||
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Eric Mokonzo | 6 | 16 Feb 2018 | ||||
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Cyrille Joly | TKO | 2 (6), | 16 Dec 2017 | |||
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Attila Nagy | 1 (4), | 20 Oct 2017 |