Photo: Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament from Wales / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Joe Cordina is the pride of Cardiff and a reminder that Welsh world champions are genuinely rare birds. Born 1991, he had a strong amateur pedigree, Commonwealth bronze in 2014, European gold in 2015, and the 2016 Olympics, before turning pro and twice winning the IBF super-featherweight world title. What I rate is the style: he wins with timing, ring craft and composure rather than wild slugging, the thinking fighter's approach. He also fought back from injury layoffs that could have derailed him entirely. A two-time world champion out of Wales carries a whole nation's pride, and he wears it well. Quietly one of Britain's best.
Overview
Joe Cordina (born 1 December 1991) is a Welsh professional boxer. He is a two-time super-featherweight world champion, having held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) title between 2022 and 2024. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and gold at the 2015 European Championships, both in the lightweight division. He also represented Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Joe Cordina
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョー・コルディナ
- Reading
- じょー・こるでぃな
- Born
- December 1, 1991 (age 34)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Goat
- Origin
- Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- boxer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- IBF World Junior Lightweight Champion
- IBF World Junior Lightweight Champion
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.