Richard "Shrimpy" Clarke (born 20 April 1963 in Kingston) is a Jamaican

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super flyweight Super flyweight, also referred to as junior bantamweight, is a boxing weight classes, weight class in professional boxing, contested from and up to . History The first title match in this division was in 1980, when the World Boxing Council respond ...

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of the 1980s and '90s who won the

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(WBC) Continental Americas flyweight title, WBC International light flyweight title, and British Commonwealth flyweight title, and was a challenger for the WBC flyweight title against

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, and

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(NABF) flyweight title against Ysaias Zamudio

his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e.

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to , i.e.

. Personal Life Clarke was born in Kingston Jamaica to mother Doreen Simmonds and father Glen Clarke. He grew up in Kingston along Studley Park Road. Clarke attended Chetolah Park Primary, Kingston Secondary school and Eastern Academy. He married in 1997 to Juliet Hewitt (Entrepreneur) and the couple had three children Derrick aka Khafari (Actor), Kashief (Disc Jockey) and Rayvon (Employee). Career and Work Clarke is currently the head coach of the Stanley Couch Gym in Downtown, Kingston. He coached former Wray and Nephew Contender Champion Donovan "Police" Campbell. He is also employed as a Sports Officer at the Institute of Sports (INSports) located at Kingston's National Arena.

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* 1963 births Flyweight boxers Living people Sportspeople from Kingston, Jamaica Super-flyweight boxers Jamaican male boxers {{Jamaica-boxing-bio-stub