List of New Zealand featherweight boxing champions

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This list of New Zealand featherweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the New Zealand professional featherweight championship.

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The title has been administered by the New Zealand Boxing Association since 1907.

A champion will often voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship, such as the world. Where the date on which a champion relinquished the title is unclear.

List of New Zealand featherweight boxing champions

NameReignDuration of reignTitleDefencesNote
Alf Gault115 July 1907New Zealand Boxing Association0
Torpedo Billy Murphy [1] 18 August 1907New Zealand Boxing Association0
James Godfrey [2] 125 November 1907 – 22 December 1908New Zealand Boxing Association1
Billy Elliott [3] 122 December 1908New Zealand Boxing Association0Elliott Vacated his title.
Jimmy Hagerty [4] 124 April 1912 – 1914New Zealand Boxing Association1Hagerty relinquished title.
Gus Venn129 July 1914 – 1915New Zealand Boxing Association0Venn relinquished title.
Lin Robinson126 June 1919 – 3 June 1922New Zealand Boxing Association5
Duke Maddox13 June 1922 – 11 December 1922New Zealand Boxing Association2
Harry Gunn111 December 1922 – 31 March 1923New Zealand Boxing Association1
Mike Flynn131 March 1923 – 1924New Zealand Boxing Association1Flynn relinquished title.
George Curran117 May 1924 – 6 October 1924New Zealand Boxing Association2
Bert Brown16 October 1924 – 4 April 1925New Zealand Boxing Association1
Lin Robinson24 April 1925 – 5 May 1927New Zealand Boxing Association3Bert Brown forfeited the title to Robinson due to Brown being overweight. The bout still went ahead with Brown winning by Points.
Duke Maddox25 May 1927 – 22 August 1927New Zealand Boxing Association1
Johnnie Leckie122 August 1927 – 29 November 1930New Zealand Boxing Association4
Tommy Donovan129 November 1930 – 31 October 1931New Zealand Boxing Association1
Johnnie Leckie231 October 1931 – 2 October 1933New Zealand Boxing Association1
Percy Hawes12 October 1933 – 16 December 1933New Zealand Boxing Association2
Clarrie Rayner116 December 1933 – 10 February 1936New Zealand Boxing Association6
Billy Aitken110 February 1936 – 26 May 1936New Zealand Boxing Association0Aitken stripped of title.
Lex Greaney18 June 1939 – 14 October 1944New Zealand Boxing Association1
Clarrie Rayner214 October 1944 – 12 March 1946New Zealand Boxing Association2
Tom Baty112 March 1946 – 1947New Zealand Boxing Association0Batty retired in 1947, vacating the title.
Johnny Hanks 114 June 1954 – 15 April 1957New Zealand Boxing Association1
Billy Leckie115 April 1957 – 7 September 1961New Zealand Boxing Association2
Jimmy Cassidy17 September 1961New Zealand Boxing Association0
Toro George 18 June 1966New Zealand Boxing Association1George was award the title without beating anyone for the title. George successfully defended the title on 15 September 1966.
Nick Fletcher126 November 1992New Zealand Boxing Association0

List of New Zealand super featherweight boxing champions

NameReignDuration of reignTitleDefencesNote
Richard Pittman117 July 1992New Zealand Boxing Association0

See also

References

  1. "After Two and a half Minutes". Taranaki Herald.
  2. "Professional Featherweight Championship". Evening Post.
  3. "Two Clever Boxers". Evening Post.
  4. "rage night carnival". Timaru Herald.