Paul Vaden (born December 29, 1967) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2000, holding the IBF light middleweight title in 1995.
[3] A top candidate to make the 1992 U.S. Olympic team Vaden instead decided to turn professional, citing dissatisfaction with amateur boxing's newly implemented scoring system, and the sport's political nature as chief among his reasons.
[5][6] On December 16, 1995, at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Vaden met WBC light-middleweight champion Terry Norris in a title unification bout.
[10] On November 20, 1999, at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Vaden won the vacant USBA junior middleweight title by knocking out Stephan Johnson in the 10th round.
In Vaden's final bout he lost his USBA light-middleweight title to NABA champion Jose Alfredo (Shibata) Flores by unanimous decision on April 15, 2000.