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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]
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.
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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]
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 ...
As an amateur, Magee won a bronze medal in the Welterweight division at the 1992 World Junior Championshipsand to this day remains one of Ireland's most successful amateur boxers of all time. He was a veteran of the Irish and European professional fight scenes and fought out of the Breen Gym in Belfast, where he now works as an assistant ...
John Caldwell (7 May 1938 – 10 July 2009) was an Irish boxer who was only 18 and youngest member of Irish boxing team when he won the bronze medal in the flyweight (– 51 kg) division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He beat the Australian favourite in the quarter finals but lost to the eventual Russian gold medalist in the semifinals.
An eight time national champion, he captained Ireland 5 times in international boxing and racked up 161 fights with only 9 losses. He won gold at the European schoolboy championships. Professional career