Andrew "The Eagle" Murray (1 July 1971 – 26 January 2002) born in Georgetown was a Guyanese

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welter/ light middle/

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of the 1990s and 2000s who won the

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(WBC) FECARBOX welterweight title,

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(WBA) Fedelatin welterweight title, and Commonwealth welterweight title, and was a challenger for the

(WBA) World welterweight title against Ike Quartey, World Boxing Union (WBU) welterweight title against

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, and World Boxing Organization (WBO)

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(NABO) light middleweight title against

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

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to , i.e.

. Andrew Murray was trained by Emanuel Steward, and was the Vice-President of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Board and was training several young boxers, and he had coached Hugo Lewis

to the Guyanese super featherweight title on 26 December 2001. Andrew Murray died in a traffic collision on the

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early in the morning of Sunday 27 January 2002, he had been in Linden promoting a

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and was on his way back to Georgetown.

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