List of New Zealand lightweight boxing champions

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

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The title has been administered by the New Zealand Boxing Association and New Zealand Professional Boxing Association since 1885.

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.

NameReignDuration of reignTitleDefencesNote
Barney Donovan122 August 1885New Zealand Title2Donovan last defence on 5 December 1885
Torpedo Billy Murphy 126 July 1887 – 24 November 1887New Zealand Title2
Ike Fake124 November 1887New Zealand Title0Fake never defended his title.
Torpedo Billy Murphy223 June 1888 – 2 February 1889New Zealand Title3
Tommy Williams12 February 1889New Zealand Title2Williams last defence on 1 January 1890
Thomas Neagle15 June 1891New Zealand Title0Neagle never defended his title.
Jack Nicholson125 May 1892 – 12 April 1893New Zealand Title1
Richard Campbell112 April 1893New Zealand Title0Campbell died of injuries sustained in the bout where he won this title.
Hock Keys [1] 120 September 1905New Zealand Boxing Association0Keys relinquished title when he returned to Australia later in 1905.
Jimmy Ross110 August 1906New Zealand Boxing Association0
Bob Turner129 November 1906New Zealand Boxing Association0Turner relinquished the title when he returned to Australia later in 1906.
Tim Tracey110 May 1907 – 14 October 1908New Zealand Boxing Association5
Bob Rollo114 October 1908New Zealand Boxing Association0Rollo relinquished the title when he returned to Australia later in 1908.
Tim Tracey228 January 1909 – 18 August 1909New Zealand Boxing Association3
Rudy Unholz118 August 1909New Zealand Boxing Association0Unholz never defended his title.
Tim Tracey325 September 1909 – 22 September 1911New Zealand Boxing Association6
Billy Hannan122 September 1911 – 9 November 1911New Zealand Boxing Association1
Tim Tracey49 November 1911 – 11 December 1911New Zealand Boxing Association2
Alf Gault111 December 1911 – 3 June 1912New Zealand Boxing Association2
Peter Cook13 June 1912 – 21 August 1912New Zealand Boxing Association1
Len Porter121 August 1912 – 11 December 1912New Zealand Boxing Association3
Jimmy Hagerty111 December 1912 – 31 January 1913New Zealand Boxing Association1
Lyn Truscott131 January 1913New Zealand Boxing Association0Truscott never defended his title.
Jimmy Hagerty212 February 1913 – 3 June 1913New Zealand Boxing Association2
Len Porter23 June 1913 – 1913New Zealand Boxing Association0Porter stripped of title by NZBA later in 1913.
Jimmy Hagerty312 August 1913 – 1914New Zealand Boxing Association4Hagerty relinquished title. Cook was named Champion by NZBA later in 1914
Peter Cook21914 – 2 November 1915New Zealand Boxing Association5
Matt James12 November 1915New Zealand Boxing Association1James retires in 1919, vacating the title.
Gus Venn15 May 1920 – 30 December 1920New Zealand Boxing Association1Venn was award the title due to the vacant title opponent was overweight.
Jack Keenan130 December 1920 – 26 March 1921New Zealand Boxing Association1
Frank O'Neill126 March 1921 – 10 November 1921New Zealand Boxing Association1
Les Murray110 November 1921 – 1926New Zealand Boxing Association5Murray relinquished title in 1926.
Charlie Purdy 11927New Zealand Boxing Association0Purdy who was awarded the title in 1927, had relinquished it without defending that same year.
Hector Leckie14 October 1929 – 26 January 1931New Zealand Boxing Association1
Harry Johns126 January 1931 – 3 October 1932New Zealand Boxing Association2Johns died of injuries sustained in his last defence.
Archie Hughes13 October 1932 – 24 April 1933New Zealand Boxing Association2
Ted Oxley124 April 1933 – 3 March 1934New Zealand Boxing Association2
Joe Franklin13 March 1934 – 15 September 1934New Zealand Boxing Association0Franklin stripped of title by NZBA September 15, 1934
Joe Franklin214 December 1934 – 1915New Zealand Boxing Association0Franklin retired in 1935, vacating the title.
Jack Jarvis131 August 1935 – 13 August 1938New Zealand Boxing Association5
Clarrie Rayner113 August 1938 – 23 October 1939New Zealand Boxing Association4
Jack Jarvis223 October 1939 – 1945New Zealand Boxing Association1Jarvis retired in 1945, vacating his titles.
Percy Kelly18 December 1945 – 1 April 1946New Zealand Boxing Association1
Young Jim Griffin11 April 1946 – 28 May 1948New Zealand Boxing Association0Griffin retired May 28, 1948, vacating the title.
Percy Kelly216 November 1948 – September 1951New Zealand Boxing Association2Kelly retired September 1951, vacating the title.
Syd Stevens129 October 1951 – 14 February 1953New Zealand Boxing Association2
Frank Wilson114 February 1953 – 16 May 1955New Zealand Boxing Association1
Johnny Hanks 116 May 1955 – 2 July 1956New Zealand Boxing Association1
Joe McNally12 July 1956 – 12 September 1960New Zealand Boxing Association5Title vacated by Joe McNally's retirement. His last defence was on 18 July 1959.
Dion Murphy110 October 1963New Zealand Boxing Association0Murphy relinquished title without defending it.
Brian Maunsell118 November 1965 – 19 May 1966New Zealand Boxing Association1
Manny Santos 119 May 1966 – March 1967New Zealand Boxing Association0Santos temporarily retired because of an eye injury and relinquished the title without defending it. Santos also held the Commonwealth title which also was relinquished.
Rex Redden120 August 1970 – 25 February 1971New Zealand Boxing Association0Redden retires in 1971, vacating the title.
Lance Austin127 May 1994New Zealand Boxing Association0Austin retired after winning this title.
Clinton Simmonds11 September 1994New Zealand Boxing Association0Simmonds vacated the title without defending.
Peter Warren113 May 2000 – 4 November 2000New Zealand Boxing Association1
Richard Pittman 130 June 2000New Zealand Professional Boxing Association0
Santos Pakau14 November 2000New Zealand Boxing Association1Pakau last defence was 21 April 2001.
Nort Beauchamp14 May 2019 New Zealand Professional Boxing Association 0Beauchamp declared champion after no challenger.

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Professional boxing in New Zealand refers to the sport of boxing held in New Zealand at a professional level.

References

  1. "keys defeats tracy". The Evening Post.