Former Team GB boxer Luke Gibb signs new three-year deal with JE Promotions
Former Team GB boxer Luke Gibbo commits future to JE Promotions
Super-lightweight Luke Gibb (5-1) has put pen to paper to sign a new three-year contract with promoter Joe Elfidh.
The 30-year-old boxer from Bexleyheath aims to become a Southern Area champion in 2020 and manager Joe Elfidh is backing him to achieve his dream.
“It’s great that Luke has shown his loyalty to JE Promotions and signed for another three years. We are looking at pushing him on for Southern Area title fights now,” Elfidh promised.
Luke added, “It was an easy decision because I just feel like Joe has done great for me so far and we are ready to push on for titles now. We are all a great team and we want to keep the journey going.
“There have been a lot of us and downs with many things out of my control and Joe has always stuck by me and helped.”
‘Gibbo’ trains with Ray Askew and Sam Latham at the Invicta Gym in Sheerness.
An experienced and decorated amateur, with over 80 bouts under his belt, he quit boxing in his early 20’s to focus on a career as a nightclub promoter instead. Travelling back and forth to Sheffield to train at the Team GB Institute of Sport took its toll on Luke and he decided to hang up his gloves to work at The Gallery in Maidstone.
It was there that local boxers from the area, such as Oli Edwards, encouraged him to visit their gym to train, which is where his reintroduction to the sport first began, back in 2016.
After thriving in sparring sessions at the busy Invicta Gym, where Ultimate Boxxer 5 finalist Lenny Fully trains, local promoter Joe Elfidh wasted no time in getting the standout amateur to pen to paper to sign with JE Promotions in December 2016 and he soon debuted two months later at Mote Park in Maidstone, earning a shutout points win.
He quickly raced to 3-0 within eight months of his pro bow, already experiencing a six-rounder in his second fight, then took on Northern Area lightweight contender Jordan Ellison for the British Challenge belt over eight rounds.
A sparring partner of Lewis Ritson, “Baby J” prepared properly for the fight with Gibb, experiencing a full training camp for the first time, and scored a first-round knockdown for his hard work. Gibb then had an uphill climb for the remainder of the contest, but couldn’t claw back enough to get the win.
He bounced back later that year with a points win over Blackburn’s Naheem Chaudry, which saw him score his first knockdown in the pad ranks, courtesy of a neat uppercut in the final round.
However, a technicality with his medicals saw his career put on hold for almost a year until he finally returned to the ring in September this year, easily outpointing Andy Harris over four rounds.
Luke Gibb is stylish, switch-hitting, pressure-fighter, with a high output and good engine, that still displays his extensive amateur pedigree in his style when he fights. He now aims to kick on and get something back from the sport that he has dedicated his entire life to.
“I haven’t got a fixed date yet for my next fight, but we are ready to take on anyone and I want to get a title of some sort soon.
“I got offered an eliminator for the English super-lightweight title, but only had a month’s notice. I was actually up for it but Ray [Askew] and Joe [Elfidh] advised against it because there just wasn’t enough time and they’ve got my best interests at heart.
“That’s sort of where I want to go; obviously I want a title before anything, but if there’s a big money fight that comes along then I’d be stupid not to consider it. If I keep active, keep winning, then hopefully more of those opportunities will come along.”
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