Team GB Olympian has record Amir Khan and Lennox Lewis couldn't match and is fighting for four titles
Former Team GB Olympic boxer Pat Brown will be backed by a home crowd when he takes on John Hedges in Manchester on Saturday night.
Brown has a perfect record of six wins, all by knockout, since turning professional last year. He stopped Vasil Ducar in April to win the WBA International and IBF Intercontinental cruiserweight belts, and has his sights set on the British and Commonwealth titles this weekend.
Hedges, an Essex southpaw two years younger than Brown and with an unbeaten 12-0 record of his own, wants the vacant titles just as badly.
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Brown's professional record is up there with the best
26-year-old Brown represented Team GB at the Summer Games in 2024 and made his professional boxing bow last March.
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He stopped Federico Javier Grandone in four on his debut and made even shorter work of Ivan Duka, knocking him out in the second round in Birmingham in June 2025.
Lewis Oakford, Autine Nmamdi, Felix Valera and Ducar have all been dispatched as Brown has moved into bigger venues and longer bouts with relative ease.
Unsurprisingly, April's title fight against Ducar was the first real test of Brown's stamina. He passed, securing the win in the eighth round after knocking the Czech fighter down three times.
Brown's first year in the business stacks up positively when compared with some of the best British boxers of the past.
Amir Khan went on to win his first 18 professional fights but one of his first six – against Baz Carey in 2005 – was won on the scorecards.
He won the Commonwealth lightweight belt in his 13th fight, so Brown can steal a march on him in the title stakes too.
The great Lennox Lewis came out on top in every one of his first 25 fights, but the future multiple world champion's fifth outing was won, unusually, by a disqualification.
Carl Froch won his first 26 fights but one of the first six was a points victory. Kell Brook was unbeaten in his first 36. Three of his first six were points wins.
Pat Brown is gearing up for match number seven with his perfect record on the line
In fact, Brown's start is very rarely equalled and obviously never bettered.
He's also moved into longer fights more quickly than some of his more illustrious compatriots, more than holding his own in bouts that could have gone as far as eight or 10 rounds.
Before Saturday's fight at Co-op Live in Manchester, Brown told BBC Sport that his dream is to been in the ring as a headliner at Old Trafford.
"It's a journey, I want to look back on my career and have the memories," he said.
"I want to keep putting massive nights on for people and, whether that's boxing at world level or this level, it makes no odds to me.
"If I could ever headline there, it would be a dream come true. That means more to me than belts.
"If I could headline at Old Trafford and walk out with all the people there loving it, that would mean everything."
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Topics: Boxing, Lennox Lewis, Amir Khan
Chris Nee