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List of British heavyweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British heavyweight title, ... 24 March 1970 – 16 March 1971 0
Brian Sidney Harper (19 June 1934 – 23 June 2021), better known by the ring name Brian London, was an English professional boxer who competed from 1955 to 1970. [1] He held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight title from 1958 to 1959, and twice challenged for the world heavyweight title, losing to Floyd Patterson in 1959 and Muhammad Ali in 1966, both times via knockout.
This is a list of British boxers who have won a world championship by one of the four major sanctioning organisations – the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the World Boxing Organization (WBO) – as well as those awarded by The Ring.
It is all here in this series: This is the history of heavyweight championship – every one of the main players. At the very start of 1970 Muhammad Ali was still in boxing exile, Joe Frazier was ...
The Heavyweights had Muhammad Ali, who ruled twice between 1974 and 1979. [1] Another aspect of boxing in the 1970s is that the decade is considered by a few to be the best ever for the Heavyweight division: Ali returned in 1970 from his forced retirement, and Joe Frazier was world champion when Ali returned.
Richard Dunn (born 19 January 1945) is an English former heavyweight boxer who was the British (1975–76), European (1976) and Commonwealth (1975–76) Champion. He unsuccessfully challenged Muhammad Ali for the world heavyweight title in 1976.
For BBBofC/Commonwealth Heavyweight Titles: 70 Loss 58–12 José Manuel Urtain TKO 2 (15) 17 Dec 1971 Madrid: For EBU Heavyweight Title: 69 Loss 58–11 Jerry Quarry: KO 1 (10) 16 Nov 1971 Empire Pool, Wembley, London: 68 Win 58–10 Joe Bugner: PTS 15 27 Sep 1971 Empire Pool, Wembley, London: BBBofC/Commonwealth/EBU Heavyweight Titles: 67 Win ...
John Anthony Conteh, MBE (born 27 May 1951) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1971 to 1980. He held the WBC light-heavyweight title from 1974 to 1977, and regionally the European, British and Commonwealth titles between 1973 and 1974.