Jeff Fenech net worth derives from boxing. He is an Australian professional boxer and four times world champion. He is also a professional boxing trainer and a poker player.

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Jeff Fenech net worth

Jeff Fenech net worth information is not publicly available. Nonetheless, his professional boxing purses are the major contributor to his wealth.

Career overview

First, he won the Oceanic Flyweight title in 1983. That same year he came in third at World Championship Flyweight and Commonwealth Flyweight. The following year, he became Oceanic Flyweight champion.

Professional boxing

He first fought against Bobby Williams and won by a knockout (KO) in round two in 1984. After that, he won twelve boxing matches by knockouts.

In 1985, he competed against Wayne Mulholland and Rolando Navarro and won over both by knockouts in the fifth round. As a result of these two wins, International Boxing Federation (IBF) named him number one world’s bantamweights.

Afterwards, he won six professional matches and became the number one contender.
Later on, he challenged Satoshi Shingaki for the IBF Bantamweight title. As a result, he became the eighth fastest boxer to fight for a world title.

He defended his IBF Bantamweight title against Jerome Coffee, and won by unanimous decision.
Later on, he went against Tony Miller in his first super bantamweight fight and won by unanimous decision in 1987.

That same year, he challenged Samart Payakaroon for the World Boxing Council (WBC) super bantamweight title. He won the title by a knockout in the fourth round.
That year, he defended his titles against Greg Richardson and Carlos Zarate. He was able to retain both his titles.

In 1988, he defended his titles again and won again by knockout in the fifth round. This time against Tyrone Downes and Georgie Navarro.

The following year he defeated Marcos Villasana and Mario Martinez by technical decision.
In 1991, he fought in the super Featherweight match against Azumah Nelson. He came out as the winner and bagged a fourth world title.

Going forward, he went on to compete in many other bouts. Unfortunately, he lost his fourth world title to Azumah Nelson. In addition to this loss, he suffered two more.

Later on, he announced his retirement from professional boxing with a record of 28 wins with 31 of them by KO, one draw and three losses.

Life after professional boxing

Jeff Fenech launched a sports clothing brand in Australia titled Jeff Fenech. It sells merchandise like hoodies, t-shirts and sweatshirts.

He also became a professional boxing trainer. Training boxers like Hussein Hussein, Vic Darchinyan, Danny Green, Sakio Bika and Nedal Hussein. In addition to his training career, he trained the legendary boxer Mike Tyson both in 2005 and 2020.

Jeff Fenech return to professional boxing

On 24 June 2008, he won in a match against Nelson Azumah by a majority decision.

Poker

Besides boxing, he participated in the 888 Poker World Series of Poker Celebrity Bounty Event in June 2008 and won.
Presently, he participates in Australian Poker Championships and World Series of Poker tournaments.

Recognitions

Jeff Fenech was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2002.

He was also inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1986.