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Pages in category "Irish male boxers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 240 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Classification: People: By occupation: Martial artists: Boxers: By nationality: Irish ... Irish male boxers (1 C, 240 P) Irish women boxers (1 C, 13 P) B.
James Archibald McLarnin (19 December 1907 – 28 October 2004) was an Irish professional boxer who became a two-time welterweight world champion and an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee. [4] As of December 2024, BoxRec ranks McLarnin as the second greatest pound for pound fighter of all time, only behind Sugar Ray Robinson. [5] [6]
Matthew Flanagan (31 May 1897 – 3 March 1970) was an Irish boxer. [1] He competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 1928 Summer Olympics. [2] He won the 1931 ABA Heavyweight Championship. [3] He was also the 1925 Irish Cruiserweight champion and Irish Heavyweight champion from 1926 to 1929, losing the title in 1930 and regaining it in 1931.
He was also a six-time underage Irish national champion and won the 2016 Haringey Box Cup in London, being named Best Overall Boxer in the process. [2] Cully was defeated by future pro stablemate David Oliver Joyce in the quarter-finals of the 2016 Irish Elite Championships which ended any hopes of attempting to qualify for the Rio Olympics. [7]
Mairtin Thornton (died 1984) was an Irish heavyweight boxer in the 1940s. He was nicknamed the "Connemara Crusher". Thornton was a native of Spiddal, Connemara, County Galway. He became the Irish Heavyweight Boxing champion in 1943. He fought Bruce Woodcock for the British Commonwealth Heavyweight title in 1945. [1]
Mar. 5—HANOVER TWP. — He may have been known as a relentless puncher who could give as good as he took, but former light welterweight pro boxer "Irish" Micky Ward included one message of non ...
Pages in category "Male boxers from Northern Ireland" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.