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| Born | April 1971 Teesside | |||||||||||||
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| Club | Wellington ABC | |||||||||||||
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John Darren Pearce (born 1971) is a male English former middleweight boxer from the Wellington ABC.
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| Born | April 1971 Teesside | |||||||||||||
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| Club | Wellington ABC | |||||||||||||
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John Darren Pearce (born 1971) is a male English former middleweight boxer from the Wellington ABC.
Pearce was a double National champion after winning the prestigious ABA middleweight title in 1996 and 1998. [1] [2]
He represented England in the middleweight (-75 Kg) division and won a gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [3] [4] [5] He defeated Jitender Kumar (India) in the final. [6]
Pearce from Middlesbrough was at the time MD of his own double glazing company. [7]
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