Lawrence "Baby Casius" Austin (born 22 January 1956 in Warrnambool) is an Australian

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of the 1970s and '80s who won the West Australia State welterweight title, West Australia State light middleweight title, Victoria State light middleweight title, Australian lightweight title, Australian light welterweight title, Australian welterweight title, South Seas Light Middleweight Title, and Commonwealth light welterweight title (twice), and was a challenger for the Australian light middleweight title against Russell Sands

and Commonwealth light welterweight title against

Jeff Malcolm Jeff "Flash" Malcolm (born 9 May 1956 in Cowra, New South Wales), is an Australian professional boxer who fought from 1971 until 2002. He won the Australian light welterweight title, New South Wales (Australia) State lightweight title, Australa ...

, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e.

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to , i.e.

. He was inducted into the

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in 2008.

Professional boxing record

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