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List Of British Welterweight Boxing Champions
List of British welterweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British welterweight 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 light-welterweight boxing champions * List of British lightweight boxing champions * L ... [...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] |
Jake Kilrain (British Boxer)
Henry Owens (1914-1984), who fought under the name Jake Kilrain (after the American boxer), was a Scottish boxer who was British welterweight champion between 1936 and 1939. Career Born in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Owens adopted the ring name Jake Kilrain while still an amateur. He began his professional career in 1931 and in his first three years won over thirty fights and suffered only two defeats. After a defeat at the hands of the experienced Boyo Rees in April 1934 he was out of the ring for almost a year due to hand injuries before returning with another loss by disqualification to Fred Lowbridge. He won his next four fights, including a fourth-round knockout of Len Wickwar, before meeting Joe Kerr in an eliminator for the Scottish lightweight title, which ended in a draw. He moved up to welterweight and beat Jim P Boyle in December 1935 to take the Scottish welterweight title. He followed this with wins over Harry Mason, George Purchase, and Billy Graham, before being b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John H Stracey
John Henry Stracey MBE (born 22 September 1950) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1969 to 1978. He is a former welterweight world champion, having held the WBC and lineal welterweight titles between 1975 and 1976. At regional level, he held the British and European welterweight titles between 1973 and 1975, and is ranked by BoxRec as the 8th best British welterweight of all time. Amateur career Stracey competed for Great Britain as a lightweight at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was defeated in the Round of 16 by eventual gold medallist Ronnie Harris. Stracey won the 1969 ABA light-welterweight championship. Professional career Early career Stracey began his professional career on 17 September 1969, knocking out Santos Martins in two rounds. Stracey won his first twelve fights, eleven by knockout, but against obscure opposition. Fight number thirteen was against Teddy Cooper, on 19 January 1971. Cooper was not a big name in boxing either, but this fight en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Arthur
Bobby Arthur (25 July 1947 – 27 July 2023) was a British boxer who was national welterweight champion between 1972 and 1973. Career From Coventry, Bobby Arthur had a successful amateur career, including representing England and winning a silver medal at welterweight at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, in Kingston, Jamaica. He made his professional debut in March 1967 with a win over Pat Walsh. He won his first 14 fights, before suffering his first defeat in November 1969 to former British lightweight Lightweight is a weight class in combat sports and rowing. Boxing Professional boxing The lightweight division is over 130 pounds (59 kilograms) and up to 135 pounds (61.2 kilograms) weight class in the sport of boxing. Notable lightweight ... champion Maurice Cullen. He won only two of seven fights in 1970 but a win over Ernest Musso in May 1971 started a run of three wins which led to a fight against John H. Stracey in October 1972 for the vacant Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Charles
Ralph Charles (born 5 February 1943) is an English amateur welterweight and professional light welter/ welter/ light middle/ middleweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1959 Junior Class-A title against Kenneth "Ken"/"Kenny" J. Coope( Warley, West Midlands, Warley ABC), boxing out of West Ham Boys & ABC, won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1960 Junior Class-B title against J. Harwood (National Association of Boys Clubs), boxing out of West Ham Boys & ABC, and was runner-up for the 1963 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Johnny Pritchett (Bingham & District ABC), boxing out of West Ham ABC, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Southern Area welterweight title, BBBofC British welterweight title, European Boxing Union (EBU) welterweight title, and Commonwealth welterweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Counc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Cooke
John 'Johnny' Cooke (born 17 December 1934 in Bootle) is a former English amateur lightweight and professional light welter/ welter/ light middle/ middleweight boxer. Amateur career He was runner-up for the 1958 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) featherweight title, against Richard McTaggart (Royal Air Force), boxing out of Maple Leaf ABC. He represented England and won a bronze medal in the -60 Kg division at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ..., Wales. He only lost 16 of 368 recorded contests as an amateur. Professional career He made his professional debut on 28 June 1960 and fought in 6 fights until 1963. As a professional he won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Central Are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Curvis
Brian Nancurvis (14 August 1937 – 9 January 2012), who fought under the name Brian Curvis as a professional, was a boxer from Swansea, Wales who was active from 1959 to 1966. He fought as a Welterweight, becoming British welterweight champion in 1960. He retired as undefeated champion and is the only welterweight to have won two Lonsdale Belts outright. The four defeats in his professional career were all to foreign boxers; he was never beaten by a British boxer. Amateur career Curvis was the fourth son of Dai Nancurvis, who had been a bantamweight fighter in the British Army, and had opened a gym in Swansea on leaving the forces. All of Curvis' brothers were fighters, most notably Cliff Curvis who became British and Commonwealth welterweight champion. He began his amateur career during his National Service and while representing the army Curvis won the A.B.A. welterweight title. In 1958, while still an amateur in the Armed Forces, he was selected to represent England i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wally Swift
Wally Swift (10 August 1936 – 10 November 2012) was a British boxer who won the British welterweight title in 1960 and twice fought for the Commonwealth title before moving up to middleweight, becoming British champion between 1964 and 1965. He went on to fight for the European super welterweight and middleweight titles and the British and Commonwealth middleweight titles. Career Born in Nottingham and raised in a Bilborough council house along with seven siblings, Wally Swift took up boxing at the age of 10 and won three schoolboy titles.Yeomans, Ray (2012)'Wally Swift was a local hero, a brave fighter who never knew when he was beaten', ''Nottingham Post'', 22 November 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2015 He joined the British Army where he became a PT Instructor and continued to box. He began his professional career in 1957 and won his first nine fights, while also working at Raleigh's factory in the city.McCarthy, Nick (2012)Boxer Wally Swift's Knowle funeral attended by form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Molloy
Tommy Molloy (9 February 1934 – 8 April 2013) was a British boxer who was British welterweight champion between 1958 and 1960. Career Born in Liverpool, Molloy began boxing at the St. Francis ABC at the age of 10, going on to a successful amateur career including several titles whilst serving in the British Army including BAOR, Army and ISBA Championships.Tributes paid to boxer Tommy Molloy, who has died aged 79 , '''', 10 April 2013. Retrieved 17 March 2015 He turned professional in February 1955 and won his first 23 fights up to the end of 1956 before drawing with |
Peter Waterman
Peter Waterman (8 December 1934 – 16 January 1986) was an English boxer and a British and European welterweight champion. Waterman was born in Stepney, East London, England, one of nine children of Rose Juliana (née Saunders) and Harry Frank Waterman. His younger brother, Dennis Waterman, became an actor and singer. His father had been an amateur boxer and made all of his sons box.Waterman and Arlon. - p.13-14. He began boxing at the age of 11 and had an amateur career winning 121 of his 130 bouts. He won the 1952 Amateur Boxing Association British light-welterweight title, when boxing out of the Caius ABC. In 1952, he represented the Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics at Helsinki, Finland, in the light-welterweight class. When Waterman was 18, he became a professional and won the British welterweight title in 1956. In 1957, he beat Emilio Marconi to gain the European welterweight title. In April 1958, after a fight with British lightweight champion, Dave Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Curvis
Cliff Curvis (19 November 1927 – 22 April 2009), was a champion welterweight boxer from Swansea, Wales. Curvis fought professionally from the mid-1940s until 1953, winning both the British and Commonwealth titles when he beat Wally Thom in 1952. Curvis was one of four brothers who boxed, most notably British and Commonwealth champion Brian Curvis. Career Curvis was born in Swansea in 1927 to Dai Nancurvis. His father had been a bantamweight fighter during his time in the British Forces, and had set up a gym in Swansea in which Curvis trained as a youth. He turned professional in 1944 at the age of 16 weighing in at flyweight. His first fight was a second-round knockout over local fighter Bryn Collins. By the end of 1945 he was fighting in larger venues in England, including a victory over Cliff Anderson at the Queensberry Club in Soho. Into his late teens, Curvis moved up to featherweight. He lost only one of his first 19 fights, and that came from a disqualifaction aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wally Thom
Wally Thom (14 June 1926 — 1980) born in Birkenhead, Merseyside an English amateur middleweight and professional welter/middleweight boxer of the 1940s, and 1950s, and referee of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, who as an amateur was runner-up for the 1945 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) middleweight title, against Randolph Turpin (Leamington Spa AB, boxing out of Army ABC, was runner-up for the 1949 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) middleweight title, against Alan Buxton (Harrow ABC), boxing out of Birkenhead ABC, and won a |
