Shawn Porter

Shawn Porter is the kind of fighter who makes you lean forward in your seat — a relentless pressure boxer out of Akron, Ohio who never gave his opponents a comfortable moment. I've always respected how he parlayed a hard-nosed amateur career into legitimate world titles at welterweight, capturing the IBF strap in 2013 and the WBC belt in 2018. What makes Porter interesting isn't just the aggression but the intelligence behind it; he fought Errol Spence, Danny Garcia, and Terence Crawford — basically the murderers' row of modern welterweights — and went the distance or damn near it every time. He retired in 2021 and transitioned into boxing commentary, which honestly suits him; a guy who fought that many elite opponents has a lot of credible things to say.

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Name (English)

Shawn Porter

Name (Japanese)

ショーン・ポーター

Reading

しょーん・ぽーたー

Born

October 27, 1987 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

Origin

Akron, Ohio, United States

Occupation

boxer

High school

Stow-Munroe Falls High School

Awards & achievements

• WBC World Welterweight Champion
• IBF World Welterweight Champion

• Official sitehttp://shawnporterpromotions.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/showtimeshawnp/
• Xhttps://x.com/ShowtimeShawnP
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Porter
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7491446

Tags

• Ohio
• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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