Andy Lee

Andy Lee, born 11 June 1984, is an Irish former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2017 and held the WBO middleweight title from 2014 to 2015, becoming the first member of the travelling community to win a major world title. He is the second cousin of the former lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, and during his professional career he was trained by the late Manny Steward. Born in Bow, London, to Irish Traveller parents, he moved with his family in 1998 to Castleconnell, County Limerick, where he and his brothers joined St Francis ABC in Limerick and his boxing career took off. He signed his first professional contract with Steward in 2005 and lived in Detroit until Steward died in 2012, then returned to London to work with the trainer Adam Booth, with whom he won the WBO belt in 2014.