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List Of British Featherweight Boxing Champions
List of British featherweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British featherweight title. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1909, and later by its replacement British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) since 1929. A champion may retire or voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship. Where the date on which a champion relinquished the title is unclear, the date of the last BBBoC sanctioned fight is shown. r–Champion relinquished title. s–Champion stripped of title. See also * List of British heavyweight boxing champions * List of British cruiserweight boxing champions * List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions * List of British super-middleweight boxing champions * List of British middleweight boxing champions * List of British light-middleweight boxing champions * List of British welterweight boxing champions * List of British light-welterweight boxing champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing
Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring. Although the term "boxing" is commonly attributed to "western boxing", in which only the fists are involved, boxing has developed in various ways in different geographical areas and cultures. In global terms, boxing is a set of combat sports focused on striking, in which two opponents face each other in a fight using at least their fists, and possibly involving other actions such as kicks, elbow strikes, Knee (strike), knee strikes, and headbutts, depending on the rules. Some of the forms of the modern sport are western boxing, Bare-knuckle boxing, bare knuckle boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, muay-thai, lethwei, savate, and Sanda (sport), sanda. Boxing techniques have been incorporated into many martial ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nel Tarleton
Nelson "Nel" Tarleton (14 February 1906Odd, Gilbert E. (ed.) (1946) ''Boxing News Annual 1946'', War Facts Press, p. 53 – 12 January 1956) was an English featherweight boxer from Liverpool, England. He was British featherweight champion on three separate occasions. Tarleton was one of only seven fighters to win two or more Lonsdale Belts outright, being the first to do so, Tarleton was twice World title challenger at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool. Boxing style Tarleton lacked a punch, but was immensely skilful, winning most of his important fights on points. He was tall and very thin. He had only one lung from the age of two, but was still able to box successfully until he was 42. Professional career Born in Liverpool, Tarleton had his first professional fight on 14 January 1926 (his twentieth birthday), when he beat George Sankey on points over ten rounds at Liverpool Stadium. He built up an impressive domestic record, with only the occasional defeat, fighting most o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Revie
Jimmy Revie (born 8 July 1947) is a British former boxer, who held the British featherweight title between 1969 and 1971, and unsuccessfully challenged for the European title in 1971. Career Born in Stockwell, London, Revie made his professional debut with fifth round stoppage of Brian Gullefer in September 1966. In November 1967 he stopped Hugh Baxter in an eliminator for the British junior lightweight title, going on to challenge champion Jimmy Anderson in February 1968. Having won all his previous 13 fights inside the distance, Revie suffered his first defeat to Anderson, being stopped in the ninth round. Revie dropped down to featherweight, and won his next six fights, setting up a shot at the British title vacated by Howard Winstone against former British Empire champion John O'Brien. The fight, in March 1969, ended in Revie's favour when the referee stopped it at the end of the fifth round due to injuries to O'Brien's eyes. He was considered a contender for Johnny Famech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Winstone
Howard Winstone, MBE (15 April 1939 – 30 September 2000) was a Welsh world champion boxer, born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. As an amateur, Winstone won the Amateur Boxing Association bantamweight title in 1958, and a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. Boxing style In his early amateur days Winstone was very much a two-fisted fighter, but as a teenager, whilst working in a local toy factory, he lost the tips of three fingers on his right hand in an accident. As a result, he lost much of the punching power in his right hand and so had to change his style to rely much more on a straight left. Amateur career Winstone won 83 of his 86 amateur fights, and in 1958 he was the ABA bantamweight champion. Representing Wales at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Winstone won the gold medal at bantamweight. Winstone won the first of his three BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year awards the same year (1958) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Spinks
Terence "Terry" George Spinks MBE (28 February 1938 – 26 April 2012) was a boxer from Great Britain, who won the gold medal in the flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the final he defeated Mircea Dobrescu of Romania on points. He was also British featherweight champion from 1960 to 1961. Amateur career Spinks had 200 amateur fights, and was the 1956 ABA flyweight champion. 1956 Olympic results *Round of 32: Defeated Samuel Harris (Pakistan) on points *Round of 16: Defeated Abel Laudonio (Argentina) on points *Quarterfinal: Defeated Vladimir Stolnikov (Soviet Union) on points *Semifinal: Defeated René Libeer (France) on points *Final: Defeated Mircea Dobrescu (Romania) on points (won gold medal) Pro career Spinks had 49 professional bouts of which he won 41. He had his first professional bout in April 1957, against Jim Loughrey, at Harringay Arena, winning on a stoppage for a cut eye. In September 1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Neill
Bobby Neill (born 10 October 1933)Hall of Fame beckons for ring legend Neill , '''', 11 September 2004. Retrieved 18 May 2016 was a who was British Champion between 1959 and 1960. Early life Born in |
Charlie Hill (boxer)
Charlie Hill (20 June 1930 – 3 July 2010) was a Scottish boxer who was British featherweight champion between 1956 and 1959. Career Born in Flemington, the son of a steel worker, and based in Cambuslang, Hill began an apprenticeship as a shipyard electrician at Harland and Wolff in Glasgow at the age of 14, and took up boxing at the Halfway Miners club in Cambuslang and later the Scottish National club in Bridgeton, winning West and Scottish (featherweight, 1953) titles as an amateur.Obituary: Charlie Hill, boxer , '''', 12 July 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2016 He made his professional debut in June 1953 with a points win over Art Belec. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Kelly (boxer)
Billy "Spider" Kelly (21 April 1932 – 7 May 2010) was a boxer from Derry Derry, officially Londonderry (), is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The name ''Derry'' is an anglicisation of the Old Irish name (modern Irish: ) meaning 'oak grove'. The ..., Northern Ireland whose career highlight was winning the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth (British Empire) featherweight title in 1954. He went on to win the List of British featherweight boxing champions, British featherweight title in 1955. History Billy Kelly was born 21 April 1932 in Derry, Northern Ireland. He was the eldest of ten children of Jimmy Kelly, boxer and taxi driver, and his wife Kathleen. Billy Kelly was educated at Long Tower primary school. Billy started his professional career in 1950, at the age of 18. On 2 October 1954, Kelly won the Commonwealth featherweight title, by out-pointing Roy Ankrah over 15 rounds. On 22 January 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy McCarthy
Sammy McCarthy (5 November 193110 February 2020) was a British professional boxer who was the featherweight champion between 1954 and 1955. He also fought for the British lightweight title and the European and British Empire featherweight titles. Career Born one of ten children in Stepney, London to a costermonger father, McCarthy was a boyhood friend of Terry Lawless, and had a successful amateur career fighting out of St. George's Gym in Stepney, winning 83 of 90 fights and representing England four times.Sammy McCarthy, Flyweight Champion , ''Spitalfields Life'', 12 July 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2016Dirs, Nick Sammy McCarthy [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Clayton (boxer)
Ronnie Clayton (9 February 19238 December 1999) was a British boxer, born in Blackpool, Lancashire whose career highlight was winning the British Empire and European featherweight titles in 1947. Boxing career Clayton was born on 9 February 1923 in Lancashire, England. He and his two brothers Jackie and Syd all chose boxing as a profession. He became a professional boxer in 1941 and was trained by his brother, Jackie at their gym in Blackpool. He was managed throughout his thirteen-year boxing career by George Dingley. He had thirteen Championship bouts that included a bantamweight championship against world champion Jackie Patterson, and non-title bouts against South African champion Vic Toweel, Jackie Turpin, Manuel Ortiz and Spider Kelly. In the second World War, he served with the Fleet Air Arm (FAA), the English Naval Air Force, in the early 1940s but continued to box, often in Liverpool. While working with the Naval Air Force, he lost to Joe Curran on 26 August 1943, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Phillips
Al "The Aldgate Tiger" Phillips (25 January 1920 – 7 February 1999) was a Jewish English professional featherweight/lightweight boxer of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, who won the European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight title, and British Empire featherweight title. Phillips took both the British Empire and sanctioned British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British featherweight Title against the powerful black feather British Guianan Cliff Anderson in fifteen rounds at Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, England in 1947. He was an unsuccessful challenger for the BBBofC British featherweight title, against Nel Tarleton in February 1945, and Ronnie Clayton in February 1951. His professional fighting weight varied from , (featherweight) to , (welterweight). The Ring ranked Al Phillips as the third best featherweight in the world in the mid 1940s and between 1944–51, he remained a top ten featherweight in the world for 44 months. Professional boxing career Phillips was an ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Cusick
Johnny "Nipper" Cusick (27 January 1916 – 1 March 1990) was an English professional bantam/feather/light/welterweight boxer of the 1930s and 1940s who won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Northern (England) Area featherweight title, BBBofC British featherweight title, and British Empire featherweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. Bantamweight to , i.e. Welterweight Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the .... Johnny Cusick was managed by John Bennett. References External links *Image - Johnny Cusick {{DEFAULTSORT:Cusick, Johnny 1916 births Bantamweight boxers English male boxers Featherweight boxers Lightweight boxers People from Hulme Place of death missing Boxers from Manchester Welterweight boxers 1990 deaths [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
