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George Groves who fights in the super middleweight division. He is a former amateur champion and the reigning Commonwealth super middleweight champion. He is currently managed and trained by the Hayemaker boxing stable.

Amateur Career
Groves generally fought in the 75kg category as an amateur and won the Senior ABA championship for his weight in 2006 and 2007. He also fought in championships around the world and won medals in places such as Russia, Estonia, Bosnia, Morocco and the United States. In 2006, he defeated future Olympic champion James Degale and in total compiled an amateur record of 66 wins out of 76 fights with 40 stoppage victories.

Professional Career
Groves turned professional and joined the Hayemaker Promotions stable. His first fight as a professional took place in November 2008 at The O2 Arena, on the undercard of David Haye's win over Monte Barrett with a six round win over Lithuanian, Kirill Pshonko. His next outing in February 2009, saw him score a third round stoppage over Frenchman, Romaric Hignard in a fight at the York Hall in Bethnal Green. He followed the victory up in March defeating Paul Samuels at the Echo Arena in Liverpool and in April travelled to Belfast to dispose of the Hungarian, Sandor Polgar.

In September 2009, following the collapse of Hayemaker's television deal with Setanta Sports, Groves along with Olympian bronze medal winner David Price signed a promotional deal with veteran boxing promoter Frank Maloney who described Groves as "one of the world's best prospects". Despite signing for Maloney however, Groves would continue to be managed and trained by Hayemaker's Adam Booth.

On 7 November 2009, following two more professional outings, Groves travelled to Germany and fought on the undercard of stablemate David Haye's WBA title win against Nikolai Valuev, defeating experienced Belarussian, Konstantin Makhankov in his first fight over eight rounds.

Commonwealth Champion
Groves first title shot came on 3 April 2010, when on the undercard of stablemate David Haye's first title defence against John Ruiz at the MEN Arena in Manchester, Groves, in only his ninth fight, defeated Charles Adamu of Ghana with a 6th round technical knock out to win the Commonwealth title. Groves had dominated the fight, knocking Adamu down once in the first and twice in the fourth before the referee stepped in with 9 seconds of round six to hand the fight to Groves.