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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
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 ...
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 ...
During the 1970s, boxing was characterized by dominating champions and history-making rivalries. The decade had many superstars, who also had fierce rivals. Alexis Argüello, for example, who won the world Featherweight and Jr. Lightweight titles in the '70s, had to overcome Alfredo Escalera twice before the decade was over.
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.
John L. Gardner (born 19 March 1953) is a former British, Commonwealth, and European heavyweight champion. A stocky, game pressure fighter, his speed and aggression made him a marginal top ten contender for the world heavyweight title. Gardner was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His best arena was the British and European boxing scene.
Still, the outcome of the bout is regarded as one of the most controversial in British boxing history. [citation needed] Nonetheless, Bugner was now the British, British Commonwealth, and European champion, and for the first time, he was ranked among the world's top ten heavyweights. Bugner would remain in the world ratings for most of the 1970s.