Colin Lake

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Colin Lake
Statistics
Weight(s) Super featherweight
NationalityBritish
Born (1941-11-23) 23 November 1941 (age 80)
Newport, Wales
Boxing record
Total fights30
Wins20
Wins by KO7
Losses9
Draws1

Colin Lake (born 23 November 1941) [1] is a British former boxer and jockey who fought for the British super featherweight boxing title in 1969. He went on to become a boxing trainer.

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Career

Born in Newport, Wales, and raised in Holloway, London, Lake took up boxing at the age of 8 at the Blythe Mansions Boxing Club, having his first fight at the age of 10. [1] At the age of 15 he became an apprentice jockey at Newmarket. [1] In five years he won 7 of 28 races. [1] He then decided to pursue a career as a professional boxer. [1]

Lake made his professional boxing debut in October 1963, stopping Don McCrea in five rounds. He won his first seven fights before losing on points in May 1964 to Arnold Bell. [1] In June 1964, his opponent Lyn James died after collapsing in the sixth round due to a brain injury. [2] By May 1968 he had built up a record of 19 wins from 23 fights, before two points defeats at the hands of Jimmy Revie, and a third round disqualification for a low blow against South African bantamweight champion Arnold Taylor in Johannesburg. [1]

Managed at the time by Terry Downes, in January 1969, Lake beat British super-featherweight champion Jimmy Anderson in a non-title fight at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, Anderson being disqualified in the sixth round for kidney punching. [3] The victory earned Lake a shot at Anderson's title, [4] and the two met again four weeks later at the Royal Albert Hall, Anderson retaining the title with a seventh round stoppage and winning the £500 gold championship belt outright. [5] [6]

Lake had two further fights, defeats to Antonio Puddu and Brian Hudson, before retiring from the sport. [1] His professional record included 20 wins, 9 losses, and 1 draw.

He subsequently became a boxing trainer, working with boxers such as Ivor Jones, Colin Dunne, and John Ryder, as well as many amateurs at the Angel ABC in Islington. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Lloyd, Melanie (2017) "Chapter 5: Colin Lake", in Sweet Fighting Man: Ring of Truth, Pitch Publishing Ltd, ISBN   978-1785313158
  2. ↑ "Boxing Board Enquiry Into Ring Death" . Birmingham Daily Post. 18 June 1964. Retrieved 18 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Ex-Jockey Out to Win" . Coventry Evening Telegraph. 5 February 1969. Retrieved 18 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Title Chance for Lake" . Coventry Evening Telegraph. 3 February 1969. Retrieved 18 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Anderson Stops Lake in Seventh" . Birmingham Daily Post. 26 February 1969. Retrieved 18 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Anderson's Gold 'Decor'" . Coventry Evening Telegraph. 26 February 1969. Retrieved 18 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
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