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John Mitchell Baker Pottinger (1913-1979) was a boxer who competed for Wales.
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John Mitchell Baker Pottinger (1913-1979) was a boxer who competed for Wales.
Pottinger won a bronze medal in the flyweight division at the 1934 British Empire Games in London. He lost to Georgie Coyle of New York in the New York Golden Gloves tournament during 1935.
He won the 1938 Amateur Boxing Association British bantamweight title, when boxing out of the Cardiff Gas BC. [2] [3]
He was a manufacturer by trade and lived at 97 Ferry Road, Grangetown, Cardiff in 1935.
Benjamin Lynch was a Scottish professional boxer who fought in the flyweight division. He is considered by some to be one of the finest boxers below the lightweight division in his era and has been described as the greatest fighter Scotland ever produced. The Ring Magazine founder Nat Fleischer rated Lynch as the No. 5 flyweight of all-time while his publication placed him 63rd in its 2002 list of the "Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years". Like Fleischer, both Statistical boxing website BoxRec and the International Boxing Research Organization also rank Lynch as the 5th greatest flyweight ever. He was elected to the Ring Magazine hall of fame in 1986 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998.
Joseph Patrick Bamford, better known by his ring name Jock McAvoy, was a British boxer who fought from 1927 to 1945. He held the British Empire Middleweight Championship from 1933 to 1939, and took the British Empire Light Heavyweight Title in April 1937 by knocking out Eddie Phillips.
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James Driscoll, commonly known as Peerless Jim, was a Welsh boxer who learned his trade in the boxing ring and used it to fight his way out of poverty. Driscoll was British featherweight champion and won the coveted Lonsdale belt in 1910. He is a member of the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame, the Ring Magazine Hall of Fame, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
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Albert Henry Thomas was a British bantamweight professional boxer who won a gold medal in Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He fought as Harry Thomas.
Joseph William Calzaghe is a Welsh former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2008. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, Ring magazine and lineal super-middleweight titles, and the Ring light-heavyweight title.
Albert Richard Barnes was a Welsh boxer who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Emlyn Jenkins was a Welsh cinema manager, trainee teacher, landlord of a public house, rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s, and coached rugby league in the 1950s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Treorchy RFC, and Cardiff RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Wales and England, and at club level for Salford, Wigan and St. Helens, Leigh, as a fullback, wing, centre, stand-off, or scrum-half, i.e. number 1, 2 or 5, 3 or 4, 6, or 7, and coached club level rugby league (RL) for Leigh and St. Helens.
Frank William Whitcombe, also known by the nickname of "The Big Man", was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He played rugby union (RU) for Cardiff RFC, London Welsh RFC, Aldershot Services and Army Rugby Union, as a prop, i.e. number 1 or 3, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, Rugby League XIII, and Wales, and at club level for Broughton Rangers and Bradford Northern, as a prop, i.e. number 8 or 10, during the era of contested scrums.
Arthur Bassett was a Welsh dual-code international rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Maesteg, Neath, Glamorgan Police RFC, Aberavon RFC, Cardiff, switching to professional rugby football in 1939. He played representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain and Wales, and at club level for Halifax and York, as a wing, i.e. number 2 or 5.
Frank Moody was a Welsh boxer who fought between 1914 and 1936. He is most notable for winning the British and Empire middleweight boxing championship in 1927 and 1928 and the light-heavyweight title from 1927 to 1929.
Eiryn Gwyne "Gwyn" Davies was a Welsh dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Cardiff RFC, as a wing, i.e. number 11 or 14, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, and Wales, and at club level for Wigan, as a centre, i.e. number 3 or 5.
Eddie Phillips was an English boxer. He was the youngest of five children. At the age of sixteen he became a charabanc driver taking visitors on day outings. He started boxing at the age of eighteen. In 1934, he married Marion Oakley. They had three children, Edward born in 1935, Derek in 1937 and Stephanie born in 1940. Stephanie had two boys Marcus & Gregory Clifford. Gregory had 4 children. Bradley Clifford, Ryan Clifford, Kyle Clifford & Sian Clifford.
Malcolm Collins is an ex-amateur boxer from Cardiff, Wales, who competed in the lightweight division. Never turning professional he is notable for represented Wales in two Commonwealth Games winning silver in both the 1954 Games in Vancouver and the 1958 Games in Cardiff.
Benjamin Foord was a South African professional mixed class boxer of the 1930s and 1940s, who won the South African heavyweight title, British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoFC) British heavyweight title, and British Empire heavyweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 170 lb, i.e. Light heavyweight to 216 lb, i.e. Heavyweight. Foord died on 29 September 1942, aged 29 years, due to accidental shooting.
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Lauren Louise Price is a Welsh amateur boxer, and former kickboxer and footballer. While representing Wales she won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal. Four years later she surpassed this achievement by winning gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, followed by a gold at the 2019 World Championships. While representing Great Britain, she won gold medals at the 2019 European Games and 2020 Summer Olympics.
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