Fitz Vanderpool
Canadian boxer
Fitzroy "Fitz the Whip" Vanderpool is a Canadian former professional boxer. He is one of Canada's most decorated professional champions, holding six titles.
Born November 3, 1967, in Trinidad and Tobago, he moved to Canada at the age of six with his family. Coming from a family of five boys who were all boxers, life was always competitive in the Vanderpool household. This gave Vanderpool the hope, dream and drive to become a professional world boxing champion.
Professional Titles
1996 Apr Canadian Professional Boxing Federation
1997 Apr World Boxing Federation Intercontinental
1998 Nov World Boxing Council Welterweight Fecarbox
1999 Apr World Boxing Federation Superwelterweight World
2002 Mar World Boxing Council Superwelterweight Fecarbox
2013 Mar National Boxing Authority Middleweight
Out of Retirement
Vanderpool retired in 2005 with a 24-7-4 professional boxing record with 13 knockouts. He had won five national and international titles during his professional career. In March 2013, after a 7.5-year hiatus from professional boxing, Fitz came back to win the National Boxing Authority championship defeating an opponent 17 years younger, achieving his 6th professional national title. The victory made Fitz the oldest Canadian Champion in history - succeeding George Chuvalo - and a three-division boxing champion at 45 years of age.
Vanderpool came out of retirement and won a six-round decision over Phil Rose on Sept 15, 2012, in Ontario, Canada.
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