List of British bantamweight boxing champions

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List of British bantamweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British bantamweight championship. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1909, and later by its replacement British Boxing Board of Control since 1929.

A champion may retire or voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship. Where a champion relinquished the title, the date of his final defence is shown with “(rel)” after it. If he did not defend his title, then “(rel)” is shown after the date at which he won the title.

Name Duration of reign Defences
Digger Stanley 17 October 191020 April 1914 4
Curley Walker 20 April 1914 (rel 1915) 0
Joey Fox 22 November 191525 June 1917 (rel 1918) 2
Tommy Noble 25 November 191830 June 1919 1
Walter Ross 30 June 1919 (rel 1919) 0
Jim Higgins 23 February 192026 June 1922 3
Tommy Harrison 26 June 192226 February 1923 1
Harry Lake 26 February 192326 November 1923 1
Johnny Brown 26 November 192319 October 1925 (rel 1927) 2
Alf Pattenden 4 June 192816 May 1929 2
Teddy Baldock 16 May 1929 (rel 1931) 0
Dick Corbett 21 December 193110 October 1932 1
Johnny King 10 October 193212 February 1934 1
Dick Corbett 12 February 193420 August 1934 (rel 1934) 2
Johnny King 20 August 193410 February 1947 3
Jackie Paterson 10 February 194724 March 1949 2
Stan Rowan 24 March 1949 (rel Nov 1949) 0
Danny O’Sullivan 13 December 19499 May 1951 1
Peter Keenan 9 May 19513 October 1953 3
John Kelly 3 October 195321 September 1954 1
Peter Keenan 21 September 195410 January 1959 4
Freddie Gilroy 10 January 195920 October 1962 (rel Nov 1962) 3
Johnny Caldwell 5 March 196222 March 1965 1
Alan Rudkin 22 March 19656 September 1966 1
Walter McGowan 6 September 196613 May 1968 1
Alan Rudkin 13 May 196825 January 1972 (rel 1972) 3
Johnny Clark 20 February 1973 (rel 1974) 0
Dave Needham 10 December 197420 October 1975 1
Paddy Maguire 20 October 197529 November 1977 1
Johnny Owen 29 November 197728 June 1980 (died 1980) 3
John Feeney 22 September 198125 January 1983 1
Hugh Russell 25 January 19832 March 1983 1
Dave Larmour 2 March 198316 November 1983 1
John Feeney 16 November 198313 June 1985 1
Ray Gilbody 13 June 198519 February 1987 2
Billy Hardy 19 February 198729 November 1990 (rel January 1991) 4
Ronnie Carroll 21 October 199127 January 1992 1
Joe Kelly 27 January 19921 June 1992 1
Drew Docherty 1 June 199213 October 1995 (rel 1997) 3
Paul Lloyd 25 October 199726 September 1998 (rel 1999) 1
Noel Wilders 30 October 199918 January 2000 (rel 2000) 1
Ady Lewis 1 April 20009 September 2000 1
Tommy Waite 9 September 20009 October 2000 1
Nicky Booth 9 October 200028 April 2003 (rel 2005) 4
Martin Power 20 May 200330 May 2006 (rel 2007) 2
Ian Napa 6 July 2007 — present 3

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[edit] Sources

  • Maurice Golesworthy, Encyclopaedia of Boxing (Eighth Edition) (1988), Robert Hale Limited, ISBN 0-7090-3323-0