Rocky Fielding

Professional career

Rocky Fielding turned professional in 2010 and won his first three professional bouts as a light-heavyweight. He then dropped down to super-middleweight for the Prizefighter Series after Kenny Anderson pulled out at short notice. Fielding won the tournament, causing a stoppage in each of his three fights and becoming the first boxer in a Prizefighter series to do so. On 6 October 2012 at Liverpool Olympia, he defeated Carl Dilks to win the vacant English super-middleweight title.

He defended that title against Wayne Reed on the Bellew v Chelimba undercard, dropping Reed three times and winning via technical knockout in the sixth round. On 21 September 2013 at Liverpool Olympia, Fielding stopped Mohammed Akrong in the first round to win the vacant Commonwealth super-middleweight title. He defended it on 23 October 2013 against Luke Blackledge, knocking him out with a left hook at 2:32 into the first round. On 7 November 2015 at the Echo Arena, Fielding fought fellow Liverpudlian Callum Smith for the vacant British super-middleweight title but lost by technical knockout in the first round.

On 22 April 2017 at the Echo Arena, he defeated John Ryder by split decision to win the vacant British super-middleweight title. Five months later on 30 September 2017, again at the Echo Arena, Fielding defended the British title and regained the Commonwealth title—which he had lost on the scales a few years earlier—with a first round knockout of David Brophy. On 14 July 2018 in Offenburg, Germany, Fielding challenged Tyron Zeuge for the WBA (Regular) super-middleweight title.

Despite entering as an underdog, he knocked Zeuge out in the fifth round. His first defense was against two-weight world champion Canelo Álvarez at Madison Square Garden on 15 December 2018. Álvarez floored Fielding in the first, second and third rounds before the referee waved the contest off. Fielding's next fight came on 15 November 2019 at Liverpool Olympia against Abdallah Paziwapazi, winning by technical knockout after dropping his opponent with a left hook in the second round.

He was due to challenge British light-heavyweight champion Dan Azeez at Bournemouth International Centre on 17 December 2022, but failed to make the required weight limit. The fight went ahead with the title no longer on the line, and Fielding lost by technical knockout in the eighth round.