Rihanna is knocked out by British boxer

Rihanna has been making headlines lately with her raunchy antics in the fields and housing estates of Northern Ireland (there's a sentence we thought we'd never type). But while she's been turning heads all over Ulster, it seems her own has been turned by a British boxer and model by the name of Dudley O'Shaughnessy.

According to a report in The Sun, the singer had personally chosen Dudley to star in the video for new single, We Found Love. A source quoted by the paper said: "Rihanna was making no secret that she fancied the pants off Dudley. They hit it off straight away. She had seen his modelling shots and other pictures when he was a boxer. Rihanna took every opportunity to get close to him and at one point she was sitting in his lap during a break from filming. She's very tactile anyway, but this was something else."

21-year-old Dudley, who hails from Canning Town in East London, has been a boxer since the age of nine and has been ranked the number one amateur welterweight in the country. He was signed up Next Model Management two years ago after being spotted by a talent scout at a tube station.

Click on the thumbnails in the gallery below for photos of Rihanna's steamy video shoot.

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