Louie O’Doherty believes his love of “chaos” has been a key factor in his rise to become British lightweight champion in just 11 professional fights.<\/p>\n
Unbeaten O’Doherty won the vacant title when Regan Glackin’s corner threw in the towel in the 10th round of their bout at Glasgow’s Braehead Arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Glackin was fighting in front of a home crowd, but suffered his first defeat in 17 contests as the Braintree fighter’s relentless style took its toll.<\/p>\n
Away from the ring, O’Doherty has to help out at home with three children aged under 14 months, including twins, and also works as a gymnastics coach.<\/p>\n
“It will always be a part of my life and keeps my brain active in a different way so when I go back to the gym for boxing, I’ve still so much love for it because my mind’s been elsewhere at other times,” he told BBC Essex.<\/p>\n
“I really enjoy a lot of chaos and a lot of things going on at once, it keeps me going.”<\/p>\n
The fight was the first time he had been in the ring outside the Essex and London area, but a number of fans made the journey north of the border to watch<\/p>\n
O’Doherty said he was “spurred on” beforehand by boos from a pro-Glackin crowd.<\/p>\n
“I was extremely wired up in the dressing room. I was ready to go non-stop. As the rounds went on, their crowd got quieter and my crowd got louder, so I knew was doing the job,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It was all very new to me and I just took it all in my stride and enjoyed it.<\/p>\n
“First things first is getting the job done, but I want to do it in good fashion if I can, and getting the stoppage, and keeping people on the edge of their seats makes it so much better to watch and I feel like I did my job there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louie O’Doherty believes his love of “chaos” has been a key factor in his rise to become British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-182692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}