Richard Boswell "Bos" Murphy (14 February 1924 – 9 November 2000) was a New Zealand

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welter/ middle/

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of the 1940s and 1950s who won the New Zealand Boxing Association welterweight title, Australasian welterweight title, and British Empire middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e.

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to , i.e.

. Murphy died at

Silverstream Silverstream is a suburb of Upper Hutt in New Zealand, just under 7 km south-west of the Upper Hutt CBD. It is in the lower (southern) part of the North Island of New Zealand at the southern end of Upper Hutt, close to the Taitā Gorge, ...

in 2000 and was buried at Akatarawa Cemetery.

Professional boxing record

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Photograph of Bos Murphy
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