Fight Record Johnny King (Manchester) - Boxinghistory.org.uk

© www.boxinghistory.org.uk - all rights reserved
This page has been brought to you by www.boxinghistory.org.uk
Click on the image above to visit our site
Johnny King (Manchester)
Active: 1926-1947
Weight classes fought in: fly, bantam, feather
Recorded fights: 227 contests (won: 161 lost: 50 drew: 15 other: 1)
Born: 8th January 1912
Died: 6th March 1963
Manager: Harry Fleming
Fight Record
1926
Apr 25 Jim Costello (Royton) WPTS(6) Boxing Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 28/04/1926 page 190
May 16 Sid Longworth (Royton) LPTS(6) Stadium, Royton
Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian)
May 23 Sid Longworth (Royton) WPTS(6) Boxing Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 26/05/1926 page 224
Jun 27 Jim Costello (Royton) DRAW(6) Boxing Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 30/06/1926 page 302
Jul 25 Joe Murray (Shaw) WPTS(6) Boxing Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 28/07/1926 page 367
Aug 29 Sid Longworth (Royton) LRSF3(6) Boxing Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 01/09/1926 page 29
Nov 21 Sid Longworth (Royton) LPTS(6) Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 24/11/1926 page 270

1927
Jan 16 Young Sutton (Rochdale) WPTS(6) Boxing Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 19/01/1927 page 397
Feb 27 Sid Longworth (Royton) LPTS(8) Boxing Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 02/03/1927 page 30
money match
Mar 27 Wilf Duckworth (Hollinwood) DRAW(6) Boxing Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 31/03/1927 page 97
May 15 Sid Longworth (Royton) WPTS(6) Boxing Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 18/05/1927 page 219
May 29 Jim Costello (Royton) WPTS Boxing Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 31/05/1927 page 259
(7st belt competition)
Jun 5 Willie Walsh (Oldham) WPTS(10) Boxing Club, Royton
Source: Boxing 07/06/1927 page 282
(7st belt competition final)
King weight around 6st
Jul 3 Harry Stafford (Manchester) LPTS(6) Royton
Source: Boxing 05/07/1927 page 381
King giving away about a stone - match for sidestakes
Jul 31 Young Melia (Oldham) WPTS Royton
Source: Boxing 03/08/1927 page 472
Sep 11 Young Fenn (Broughton) WPTS Adelphi Club, Salford
Source: Boxing 13/09/1927 page 93
Sep 25 Tom McLeish (Manchester) WPTS(6) Adelphi Club, Salford
Source: Boxing 27/09/1927 page 133
Oct 4 Tom McLeish (Manchester) WPTS(6) Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Source: Boxing 11/10/1927 page 173
Oct 25 Tommy Ross (Oldham) WPTS(6) British Legion Club, Huddersfield
Source: Boxing 01/11/1927 page 222
Nov 4 Young Leach (Manchester) WPTS(6) Tower Circus, Blackpool
Source: Boxing 08/11/1927 page 238
Promoter: British Legion
Nov 9 Tom McLeish (Manchester) WPTS(6) Pier Kinema, Llandudno
Source: Boxing 15/11/1927 page 254
Promoter: Jack Dare and Kid Furness
1928
Jan 1 Young Melia (Oldham) WPTS(6) Stadium, Royton
Source: Boxing 03/01/1928 page 367
Jan 24 Tich Cain (Douglas) WPTS(6) Gaiety Theatre, Douglas
Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian)

Feb 5 Asa Hilditch (Shaw) WPTS(6) Stadium, Royton
Source: Boxing 07/02/1928 page 446
Apr 15 Harold Henthorn (Oldham) LPTS(6) Stadium, Royton
Source: Boxing 18/04/1928 page 607
(7st belt competition)
Jul 28 Young Melia (Oldham) WPTS(6) Palais de Danse, Ashton-under-Lyne
Source: Ashton-under-Lyne Herald
Aug 19 Joe Coupe (Pendleton) WKO5(6) Adelphi SC, Salford
Source: Boxing 22/08/1928 page 89
Aug 19 Willie Walsh (Oldham) DRAW(6) Stadium, Royton
Source: Boxing 22/08/1928 page 89
Sep 1 Boy Knowles (Gorton) WPTS(6) Palais de Danse, Ashton-under-Lyne
Source: Boxing 04/09/1928 page 121
Promoter: Kid Furness
Oct 3 Jimmy Speight (Lancaster) WKO1(6) Winter Gardens, Morecambe
Source: Boxing 09/10/1928 page 202
Promoter: Kid Furness Attendance: 4000
Nov 16 Joe Coupe (Pendleton) WKO5(6) Hippodrome, Harpurhey
Source: Boxing 20/11/1928 page 295
Promoter: Kid Furness
Nov 23 Asa Hilditch (Shaw) WRSF3(10) Public Hall, Haslingden
Source: Boxing 27/11/1928 page 311
Nov 27 John Melia (Oldham) WPTS(6) Co-op Hall, Leigh
Source: Boxing 04/12/1928 page 329
King's second bout of evening
Nov 27 Don Randolph (St Helens) WPTS(6) Co-op Hall, Leigh
Source: Boxing 04/12/1928 page 329
Dec 14 Harold Henthorn (Oldham) LRSF1(10) Drill Hall, Oswaldtwistle
Source: Boxing 19/12/1928 pages 362 and 361
Referee: Jack Ward Promoter: Mr Marsland
1929
Jan 2 Harold Henthorn (Oldham) WPTS(6) Winter Gardens, Morecambe
Source: Boxing 09/01/1929 page 406
Jan 6 Eddie Conway (Pendleton) WKO1(6) Adelphi Club, Salford
Source: Boxing 09/01/1929 page 406
Jan 18 Eddie Sherry (Pendleton) WPTS(6) Tower Circus, Blackpool
Source: Blackpool Times
Referee: Charles Stokes(Manchester)
Jan 29 Frank Cooley (Collyhurst) WPTS(6) Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Source: Boxing 06/02/1929 page 467
Feb 3 Joe Coupe (Pendleton) WKO4(6) Adelphi Club, Salford
Source: Boxing 06/02/1929 page 470

Feb 12 Dot Boxall (Hulme) WPTS(10) Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Source: Boxing 20/02/1929 page 499
Promoter: Jack Smith
Feb 15 Young Dick Lawton (Nelson) LPTS(10) Drill Hall, Burnley
Source: Burnley Express and Advertiser
Feb 22 Harold Henthorn (Oldham) DRAW(10) Ashbury Hall, Openshaw
Source: Boxing 27/02/1929 page 513
Mar 19 Eddie Sherry (Pendleton) WPTS(6) Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Source: Boxing 27/03/1929 pages 570 and 569
Apr 8 Eddie Sherry (Pendleton) WPTS(6) Northwich
Source: Boxing 17/04/1929 page 614
Apr 28 Joe Hagen (Ancoats) WPTS(6) Adelphi Club, Salford
Source: Boxing 01/05/1929 page 647
May 9 Paddy Dowling (Liverpool) LPTS(10) Pudsey Street Stadium, Liverpool
Source: Boxing 15/05/1929 page 672
May 30 Paddy Dowling (Liverpool) WPTS(12) Pudsey Street Stadium, Liverpool
Source: Boxing 05/06/1929 page 707
Jun 3 Joe Bernstein (Leeds) WPTS(10) Leeds
Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian)
Jun 28 Johnny Hyde (Stalybridge) DRAW(10) Openshaw
Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian)
Jul 4 Alf Shaw (Sheffield) WRSF8(10) Pudsey Street Stadium, Liverpool
Source: Boxing 10/07/1929 page 43
Aug 7 Jimmy Gould (Lancaster) WKO2(6) Winter Gardens, Morecambe
Source: Morecambe Visitor
Referee: Alf Heywood
King sub for Nobby Clarke(Blackpool)
Sep 8 Jack Keelars (Bradford) WPTS(10) Adelphi Club, Salford
Source: Boxing
Oct 15 Billy Yates (Mexborough) LRTD5(10) Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Source: Boxing 23/10/1929 page 258
Promoter: Jack Smith
damaged eye
Nov 25 Teddy Talbot (Gorton) WPTS(8) Earlestown
Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian)
Dec 3 Reggie Hall (Bristol) WPTS(3) Stadium Club, Holborn
Source: Boxing 11/12/1929 page 368
(Flyweight competition - 1st series)
Dec 10 Freddy Morgan (Gilfach Goch) WRSF3(3) Stadium Club, Holborn
Source: Boxing 11/12/1929 pages 386 and 385
(Flyweight competition 2nd series)
Morgan boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator 1931 and was Welsh
Area Flyweight Champion 1929-30 and 1931-32.

Dec 10 Moe Mizler (St George's) WPTS(3) Stadium Club, Holborn
Source: Boxing 11/12/1929 pages 386 and 385
(Flyweight competition semi-final)
Mizler boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator 1931.
Dec 10 Bert Kirby (Birmingham) LPTS(6) Stadium Club, Holborn
Source: Boxing 11/12/1929 pages 386 and 385
(Flyweight competition final)
Kirby was British Flyweight Champion 1930-31.
1930
Jan 1 Arthur Boy Edge (Birmingham) WPTS(10) Stadium Club, Holborn
Source: Boxing 08/01/1930 page 434
Edge boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator twice in 1931 and again
in 1932 and was Southern Area Flyweight Champion 1931-33 and Southern
Area Bantamweight Champion 1933.
Feb 11 Alex Farris (Glasgow) WPTS(10) Music Hall, Edinburgh
Source: Boxing 19/02/1930 page 537
Promoter: Harold Bownas
Feb 16 Fred Beresford (Preston) WKO3(12) Pendleton
Source: Manchester Sporting Chronicle
Feb 26 Boy Tomlinson (Manchester) WPTS(15) Drill Hall, Llandudno
Source: Boxing 05/03/1930 page 566
Referee: WJ Farnell
Mar 15 Billy James (Birmingham) DRAW(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 19/03/1930 page 595
James boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator 1929.
Apr 6 Teddy Talbot (Gorton) WRTD3(12) Princess Club, Salford
Source: Manchester Sporting Chronicle
Apr 30 Tom McLeish (Manchester) WRTD6(10) Alexander Stadium, Colne
Source: Burnley Express and Advertiser
McLeish sub for Boy Tomlinson(Manchester)
May 2 Ted Perry (Salford) WKO4(12) Collyhurst
Source: Manchester Sporting Chronicle
May 4 Martin Gallagher (Rochdale) WRTD1(10) NSC, Royton
Source: Boxing 07/05/1930 page 711
May 18 Arthur Boy Edge (Birmingham) WKO4(15) Ice Rink, West Bromwich
Source: Boxing 21/05/1930 page 743
May 25 Young Siki (Liverpool) WRTD12(15) Ice Rink, West Bromwich
Source: Boxing 28/05/1930 page 761
Match made at 8st 2lbs
Jun 23 Tommy Brown (Salford) LPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 02/07/1930 page 10

Jul 13 Billy James (Birmingham) LPTS(15) Palais de Danse, West Bromwich
Source: Boxing 16/07/1930 page 44
Promoter: Ted Salmon
Aug 3 Fred Bebbington (Salford) WPTS(12) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 06/08/1930 page 90
Bebbington boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator twice in 1932 and was
Northern Area Flyweight Champion 1931-33.
Aug 24 Ted Griffin (Bolton) NC4(12) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 27/08/1930 pages 139 and 138
Sep 22 George Greaves (Salford) WRSF2(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 24/09/1930 pages 201 and 200
Greaves boxed for the Northern Area Flyweight Title 1929.
Oct 5 Ted Griffin (Bolton) WRSF3(15) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 08/10/1930 page 233
Oct 13 Jackie Quinn (Belfast) WPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 15/10/1930 page 246
Quinn boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator 1932.
Oct 29 Fred Bebbington (Salford) WPTS(12) Drill Hall, Llandudno
Source: Llandudno Advertiser
Referee: WJ Farnell Promoter: Maj C Arnold
Nov 3 Young Perez (Tunisia) DRAW(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 05/11/1930 page 293
Nov 21 Tommy Brown (Salford) WKO1(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 26/11/1930 page 346
Match made at 8st 2lbs
Attendance: 7000
Nov 30 Spike Bradley (Shipley) WPTS(12) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 03/12/1930 page 363
Dec 28 Little Minor (Leeds) WPTS(15) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 31/12/1930 page 424
1931
Jan 9 Joe Hagen (Ancoats) WPTS(12) Harpurhey
Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian)
Jan 23 Tommy Barber (Bradford) WPTS(15) Tower Circus, Blackpool
Source: Blackpool Times
Feb 9 Johnny Gibson (Bermondsey) WKO1(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 11/02/1931 page 517
Feb 13 Billy Shinfield (Derby) WKO1(15) Tower Circus, Blackpool
Source: Boxing 18/02/1931 page 539
Match made at 8st 4lbs
Promoter: Jack Madden
Shinfield received no purse money

Feb 23 Bert Kirby (Birmingham) WKO2(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 25/02/1931 page 548
Match made at 8st 3lbs
Mar 15 Jack Kirk (Mansfield) WRSF2(12) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 18/03/1931 page 603
Promoter: Tom Chapman
Mar 20 Benny Thackray (Leeds) DRAW(15) Tower Circus, Blackpool
Source: Blackpool Times
Apr 27 Benny Thackray (Leeds) LPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 29/04/1931 page 694
May 30 Arly Hollingsworth (Sheffield) WRSF5(15) Hyde Park, Sheffield
Source: Boxing 03/06/1931 page 780
(British Bantamweight Title Eliminator)
Hollingsworth boxed a British Bantamweight Title Eliminator 1931.
Jul 6 Al Miller (Liverpool) WKO3 Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian)
Jul 26 Benny Thackray (Leeds) WKO12(15) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 05/08/1931 page 92
Match made at 8st 6lbs
Aug 10 Pat Gorman (Wheatley Hill) WRTD6(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 12/08/1931 page 102
(British Bantamweight Title Eliminator and Northern Area Bantamweight Title)
Gorman boxed for the Northern Area Bantamweight Title 1931.
Attendance: 6000
Sep 7 Petit Biquet (Belgium) WPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 09/09/1931 page 165
Oct 5 Nicholas Petit Biguet (Belgium) WPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 07/10/1931 pages 229 and 230
Oct 25 Lew Sullivan (Liverpool) WDSQ NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 04/11/1931 page 16
Nov 9 Frank Markey (Blantyre) WRSF5(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 11/11/1931 pages 8, 09
(British Bantamweight Title Final Eliminator)
Markey boxed a British Bantamweight Title Eliminator twice in 1931.
Nov 23 Young Denain (France) WRSF6(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 02/12/1931 page 15
Dec 21 Dick Corbett (Bethnal Green) LPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 23/12/1931 page 4
(British Bantamweight Title)
Corbett was British and British Empire Bantamweight Champion 1931-32 and 1934.
Attendance: 7000

1932
Jan 24 Stan Jehu (Maesteg) WPTS(12) Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
Source: Boxing 27/01/1932 page 11
Jehu was Welsh Area Bantamweight Champion 1930-31 and Welsh Area
Featherweight Champion 1933-34 and 1935-36.
Feb 15 Dick Burke (Liverpool) WPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 17/02/1932 page 8
(Northern Area Bantamweight Title)
Burke boxed a British Featherweight Title Eliminator 1933.
Feb 23 Arly Hollingsworth (Sheffield) WRTD7 Sheffield
Source: Boxing 02/03/1932 page 10
Match made at 8st 8lbs
Mar 13 Joe Myers (Oldham) WPTS(12) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 16/03/1932 pages 11 and 12
Myers boxed for the Northern Area Flyweight Title 1931.
Referee: Gus Platts
May 30 Johnny Peters (Battersea) WDSQ11(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 01/06/1932 page 11
Jul 18 Terence Morgan (Newport) WRSF4(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Topical Times
Morgan was Welsh Area Bantamweight Champion 1931-32.
Aug 1 Joe Myers (Oldham) WKO2(12) Football Ground, Blackpool
Source: Boxing 10/08/1932 page 10
Promoter: Jack Madden
Aug 24 Harold Lewis (Thornaby) WPTS(15) Winter Gardens, Morecambe
Source: Boxing 31/08/1932 page 11
Sep 5 Alfredo Magnolfi (Italy) WPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 07/09/1932 page 9
Match made at 8st 6lbs
Sep 25 Harold Lewis (Thornaby) WKO4(12) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 28/09/1932 page 12
Oct 10 Dick Corbett (Bethnal Green) WPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 12/10/1932 page 7
(British Bantamweight Title)
Referee: Jimmy Wilde
Nov 25 Dave Crowley (Clerkenwell) WPTS(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 30/11/1932 page 10
Crowley was British Lightweight Champion 1938.
Match made at 8st 8lbs
Dec 9 Tommy Kirk (Nottingham) WRSF15(15) Tower Circus, Blackpool
Source: Boxing 14/12/1932 page 10
Referee: Tom Gamble

Dec 19 Stan Davies (Maltby) WPTS(12) Stockport
Source: John Hand (Boxing Historian)
1933
Jan 9 Jean Locatelli (Royton) WKO5(15) Music Hall, Shrewsbury
Source: Boxing 11/01/1933 page 8
Referee: E Tolley
Feb 20 Stan Davies (Maltby) WPTS(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 22/02/1933 page 9
Feb 28 Jim O'Neil (Cambuslang) WRTD7(12) Music Hall, Edinburgh
Source: Boxing 08/03/1933 page 9
O'Neil was Scottish Area Bantamweight Champion 1933-34.
Match made at 8st 8lbs
Mar 6 Dave Crowley (Clerkenwell) WPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 08/03/1933 page 8
Match made at 8st 8lbs
Mar 27 Henri Poutrain (France) WRTD11(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 29/03/1933 page 8
Match made at 8st 12lbs
Apr 10 Pat Gorman (Wheatley Hill) WKO1(12) New St James Hall, Newcastle
Source: Boxing 12/04/1933 page 9
Apr 23 Benny Thackray (Leeds) WKO8(12) Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
Source: Boxing 26/04/1933 page 13
May 15 Dominic Bernasconi (Italy) LKO10(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 17/05/1933 page 7
May 21 Tucker Winch (Dagenham) WRTD10(15) The Ring, Blackfriars
Source: Boxing 24/05/1933 page 4
Match made at 8st 10lbs
Jun 12 Bobby Leitham (Canada) WPTS(15) Olympia, Kensington
Source: Boxing 14/06/1933 pages 7 and 14
(Empire Bantamweight Title)
Jul 3 Al Brown (Panama) LPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 05/07/1933 pages 5 and 7
(World Bantamweight Title)
Oct 1 Syd Rose (Preston) WKO6(12) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 03/10/1933 page 11
Oct 22 John Barrett (Keighley) WKO8 Brunswick Stadium, Leeds
Source: Boxing 24/10/1933 page 12
Oct 29 Teddy Higgins (Manchester) WRSF9(12) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 31/10/1933 page 11
Match made at 8st 10lbs
Nov 6 Francois Machtens (Belgium) LPTS(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 08/11/1933 page 16

Nov 16 Benny Thackray (Leeds) WKO2(12) Imperial Ballroom, Nelson
Source: Brian Strickland (Boxing Historian)
Nov 24 Johnny Peters (Battersea) WRTD2 Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 29/11/1933 page 11
Dec 11 Teddy Higgins (Manchester) WKO1 Manchester
Source: Brian Strickland (Boxing Historian)
Dec 24 Jackie Quinn (Belfast) WPTS Belfast
Source: Brian Strickland (Boxing Historian)
1934
Jan 26 Benny Thackray (Leeds) LDSQ8(12) Tower Circus, Blackpool
Source: Boxing 31/01/1934 page 11
Feb 12 Dick Corbett (Bethnal Green) LPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 14/02/1934 page 16
(British and Empire Bantamweight Title)
Mar 11 Dave Crowley (Clerkenwell) LKO12(12) The Ring, Blackfriars
Source: Boxing 14/03/1934 page 13
Apr 2 Len Beynon (Swansea) LPTS(12) Drill Hall, Swansea
Source: Boxing 04/04/1934 page 10
Beynon boxed a British Bantamweight Title Eliminator three times in 1933
and again in 1934 and 1936 and was Welsh Area Bantamweight
Champion 1932-33 and 1934 and 1936.
Referee: Mr Hoare(Cardiff)
Apr 15 Stan Davies (Maltby) WRSF9(12) Stadium, Rotherham
Source: Boxing 18/04/1934 page 14
Referee: Capt. Fitchett Promoter: Sam Moreton and Billy Pinder
Apr 30 Marcel Sastos (Belgium) WRTD8(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 02/05/1934 page 11
May 14 Len Beynon (Swansea) LPTS(12) Manchester
Source: Boxing 16/05/1934 page 10
May 19 Albert Lindley (Sheffield) WRSF11(12) Sheffield
Source: Boxing 23/05/1934 page 15
Referee: Charles Brennan
Jun 3 Stan Jehu (Maesteg) WPTS(12) Stadium, Rotherham
Source: Boxing 06/06/1934 page 14
Jun 18 Len Beynon (Swansea) WPTS(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 20/06/1934 page 10
(British Bantamweight Title Eliminator)
Jul 19 Mog Mason (Gilfach Goch) WKO6(12) Stadium, Liverpool
Source: Boxing 25/07/1934 page 11
Mason was Welsh Area Bantamweight Champion 1934-36 and 1937.
Match made at 8st 10lbs

Aug 20 Dick Corbett (Bethnal Green) DRAW(15) Stadium, Clapton
Source: Boxing 22/08/1934 page 8
(British Bantamweight Title)
Referee: CB Thomas
Aug 27 Ellis Ashurst (Denaby) WRTD4 Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 29/08/1934 page 8
Ashurst boxed for the Northern Area Flyweight Title 1935.
Sep 24 George Marsden (Nottingham) LPTS(10) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 26/09/1934 page 9
Marsden boxed a British Bantamweight Title Eliminator 1935.
Oct 1 George Marsden (Nottingham) WPTS(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 03/10/1934 page 11
Oct 22 Dick Corbett (Bethnal Green) DRAW(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 24/10/1934 page 8
Nov 19 Phineas John (Pentre) WRTD4(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 21/11/1934 page 8
John was Welsh Area Flyweight Champion 1929 and Welsh Area
Bantamweight Champion 1929.
Dec 16 Joe Horridge (Rochdale) WPTS(12) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 19/12/1934 page 9
Dec 28 Johnny Holt (South Africa) DRAW(12) Tower Circus, Blackpool
Source: Boxing 02/01/1935 page 14
Attendance: 4500
1935
Jan 27 Joe Horridge (Rochdale) WRSF2(15) NSB, Royton
Source: Boxing 30/01/1935 page 14
Feb 8 Michel Escargueil (France) WRSF5(12) Tower Circus, Blackpool
Source: Boxing 13/02/1935 page 15
Feb 25 Dominic Bernasconi (Italy) WPTS(10) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 27/02/1935 page 9
Mar 1 Charles Vercammen (Antwerp) WPTS(12) Tower Circus, Blackpool
Source: Boxing 06/03/1935 page 14
Referee: Gus Platts Attendance: 3000
Mar 25 Nel Tarleton (Liverpool) WPTS(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 27/03/1935 page 10
Tarleton was British Featherweight Champion 1931-32 and 1934-36 and British
Featherweight Champion 1940-47 and British Empire Featherweight Champion 1940-45.
Apr 6 George Williams (Treherbert) LPTS(12) Labour Stadium, Merthyr
Source: Boxing 10/04/1935 page 13
Williams was Welsh Area Bantamweight Champion 1933-34.
Apr 29 George Williams (Treherbert) WPTS(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 01/05/1935 page 11

May 27 Len Hampston (Batley) WPTS(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 29/05/1935 page 11
(British Bantamweight Title)
Hampston boxed for the British Bantamweight Title 1935 and 1938
and was Northern Area Bantamweight Champion 1937.
Jul 8 Len Beynon (Swansea) WRTD6(15) Vetch Field, Swansea
Source: Boxing 10/07/1935 page 10
Match made at 8st 11lbs
Referee: Jim Kenrick
Aug 29 Frank Barron (Sheffield) WRSF8(12) Sheffield
Source: Boxing 04/09/1935 page 12
Sep 9 Giovanni Sili (Italy) WKO1(10) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 11/09/1935 page 10
Oct 10 Nel Tarleton (Liverpool) DRAW(12) Stadium, Liverpool
Source: Boxing 16/10/1935 pages 18 and 19
Match made at 9st
Oct 21 Simon Chavez (Venezuela) WPTS(10) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 23/10/1935 page 13
Nov 22 Jackie Brown (Manchester) WRSF6(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 27/11/1935 page 16
Brown was British Flyweight Champion 1929-30 and 1931-35 and European
Flyweight Champion 1931-32 and World Flyweight Champion 1932-35.
Dec 16 Joe Parisis (France) WPTS(10) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 18/12/1935 page 13
1936
Jan 19 Fred Todkill (Reddish) WRSF10(12) Junction Stadium, Miles Platting
Source: Boxing 22/01/1936 page 20
Feb 18 Spike Robinson (Belfast) WRSF8(10) Belfast
Source: Boxing Weekly Record 26/02/1936 page 12
Feb 21 Gilbert Johnstone (Dundee) WPTS(12) Kings Hall, Manchester
Source: Boxing 26/02/1936 pages 22 and 23
Match made at 9st 2lbs
May 6 Nel Tarleton (Liverpool) LPTS(15) Annfield Football ground, Liverpool
Source: Boxing 13/05/1936 pages 23 and 26
(British Featherweight Title)
King 8st 12lbs 8ozs Tarleton 8st 13lbs 8ozs
Referee: Jack Hart
Jun 14 Charles Vercammen (Belgium) WKO3(12) Stadium, Rotherham
Source: Boxing 17/06/1936 pages 17 and 18
Promoter: Sam Moreton

Jun 30 KO Morgan (USA) LPTS(10) Cathkin Park, Glasgow
Source: Boxing 08/07/1936 page 15
Match made at 9st
Promoter: George Dingley Attendance: 15000
Jul 23 Tommy Steele (North Shields) WRSF5(12) Sheffield
Source: Boxing 29/07/1936 page 15
Aug 3 Boyo Burns (Bolton) WPTS(10) Bloomfield Rd Football Ground, Blackpool
Source: Boxing 05/08/1936 page 10
Sep 28 Benny Sharkey (Newcastle) LPTS(12) New St James Hall, Newcastle
Source: Boxing 30/09/1936 page 13
Oct 12 Johnny Cusick (Manchester) LPTS(12) Kings Hall, Manchester
Source: Boxing 14/10/1936 page 16
Cusick was British and British Empire Featherweight Champion 1939-40.
Match made at 9st
Nov 19 Ginger Foran (Liverpool) LPTS(12) Stadium, Liverpool
Source: Boxing 25/11/1936 page 18
Foran boxed for the British Flyweight Title 1933 and was Northern Area
Flyweight Champion 1933.
Match made at 9st
Referee: Ben Green
Dec 9 Jimmy Lester (Dagenham) WPTS(8) Stadium Club, Holborn
Source: Boxing 16/12/1936 page 13
1937
Jan 4 George Marsden (Nottingham) DRAW(10) Granby Halls, Leicester
Source: Boxing 06/01/1937 page 10
Mar 8 Alex Alston (Preston) LPTS(10) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 10/03/1937 page 11
Match made at 9st
Mar 17 George Marsden (Nottingham) WRSF9(12) York
Source: Boxing 24/03/1937 page 15
Apr 19 Gustave Ansini (Italy) WPTS(10) Waverley Market, Edinburgh
Source: Boxing 21/04/1937 page 12
Apr 23 Alex Alston (Preston) WDSQ3(12) Tower Circus, Blackpool
Source: Boxing 28/04/1937 pages 19 and 20
May 31 Jackie Brown (Manchester) WKO13(15) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 02/06/1937 pages 11 and 12
(British Bantamweight Title)
King 8st 5lbs 12ozs Brown 8st 5lbs 13ozs
Aug 2 Alex Alston (Preston) WPTS(10) Blackpool
Source: Boxing Weekly Record 11/08/1937 page 18

Aug 14 George Marsden (Nottingham) LPTS(10) Sports Arena, Poole
Source: Boxing 18/08/1937 page 17
King 8st 11lbs Marsden 8st 11lbs
Referee: Jack Hart
Sep 13 Spike Robinson (Belfast) WRSF5(10) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 15/09/1937 page 12
Match made at 9st
Oct 4 Johnny Ryan (Kilburn) WKO6(10) Coventry
Source: Boxing Weekly Record 13/10/1937 page 20
Oct 11 Young Chocolate (Jamaica) WKO4(10) Colston Hall, Bristol
Source: Boxing 13/10/1937 page 12
Nov 2 Tommy Burns (Stockton) WRSF2(10) Drill Hall, Oldham
Source: Boxing 10/11/1937 page 17
Burns boxed a British Featherweight Title Eliminator twice in 1950 and
was Northern Area Featherweight Champion 1949.
Nov 30 Joe Green (Middlesbrough) WPTS(12) Victoria Hall, Hanley
Source: Boxing 08/12/1937 page 19
Match made at 9st 2lbs
Dec 20 Benny Sharkey (Newcastle) WPTS(10) New St James Hall, Newcastle
Source: Boxing 22/12/1937 page 12
1938
Jan 10 George Williams (Treherbert) LPTS(10) Colston Hall, Bristol
Source: Boxing 12/01/1938 page 16
Match made at 9st 1lb
Jan 27 Billy Pleace (Portsmouth) WPTS(10) Exeter
Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian)
Feb 9 Johnny McGrory (Glasgow) LPTS(10) Kelvin Hall, Glasgow
Source: Boxing 16/02/1938 page 15
McGrory was British and British Empire Featherweight Champion 1936-38.
Mar 3 Dan McAllister (Belfast) LPTS(10) Stadium, Liverpool
Source: Boxing 09/03/1938 page 16
McAllister boxed for the Northern Ireland Featherweight Title 1938.
Promoter: Johnny Best
Apr 28 Paul Dogniaux (France) LPTS(10) Paris France
Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian)
Jun 22 Len Hampston (Batley) WDSQ3(15) Headingley Rugby Ground, Leeds
Source: Boxing 29/06/1938 pages 16 and 17
(British Bantamweight Title)
Referee: Jack Hart Promoter: Jack Green Attendance: 5000
Aug 15 Hal Bagwell (Gloucester) WKO5(10) Kingsholm Rugby Ground, Gloucester
Source: Boxing 17/08/1938 page 11
Bagwell was Southern Central Area Lightweight Champion 1947-9.
Promoter: Capt. A Prince-Cox

Sep 1 Freddie Miller (USA) LPTS(10) Stadium, Liverpool
Source: Boxing 07/09/1938 page 16
Referee: Arhur Myers
Sep 30 Johnny McManus (Twechar) WRTD8(10) Theatre Royal, Dublin
Source: Boxing 05/10/1938 pages 18 and 19
McManus was Scottish Area Lightweight Champion 1944.
Promoter: messrs Nat Joseph & George Dingley
Oct 10 Gustave Ansini (Italy) LPTS(10) Empress Stadium, Earls' Court
Source: Boxing 12/10/1938 page 11
King 8st 13lbs 8ozs Ansini 8st 12lbs 8ozs
Referee: Mickey Fox
Oct 19 Harry Edwards (Birmingham) WDSQ6(10) Tower Ballroom, Edgbaston
Source: Boxing 26/10/1938 page 18
Promoter: Ted Salmon
Oct 31 Johnny Cusick (Manchester) LPTS(12) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 02/11/1938 pages 11 and 12
Match made at 9st 2lbs King 9st 1lbs 8ozs Cusick 9st 1lbs 8ozs
Referee: CB Thomas
Nov 21 Rafael Valdes (Cuba) WKO1(10) Public Baths, Gloucester
Source: Boxing 23/11/1938 page 13
Nov 25 Harry Edwards (Birmingham) WPTS(10) Batley Carr Rink, Dewsbury
Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian)
Dec 8 Frank Kenny (Glasgow) WPTS(10) Stadium, Liverpool
Source: Boxing 14/12/1938 page 17
Kenny was Scottish Area Featherweight Champion 1938-47 and 1947.
Referee: WJ Farnell Promoter: Johnny Best
1939
Jan 16 Tom Smith (Sunderland) LPTS(10) New St James Hall, Newcastle
Source: Boxing 18/01/1939 page 11
Smith boxed for the British Featherweight Title 1940 and was Northern
Area Featherweight Champion 1940.
Match made at 9st 2lbs
Feb 6 Jackie Hurst (St George's) WRSF9(12) Millbay Rinkeries, Plymouth
Source: Boxing 08/02/1939 page 12
Mar 13 Len Beynon (Swansea) LRTD7(12) Mannesmann Hall, Swansea
Source: Boxing 15/03/1939 pages 11 and 12
Apr 10 Frank Parkes (Nottingham) LPTS(10) Brook Street Baths, Sutton-in-Ashfield
Source: Boxing 12/04/1939 pages 10 and 11
Parkes was North Midlands Area Lightweight Champion 1949-50 and
Midlands Area Lightweight Champion 1953-56.
Match made at 9st 2lbs
Jul 3 Phineas John (Pentre) WPTS(10) Stroud
Source: Brian Strickland (Boxing Historian)

Sep 30 Johnny McManus (Twechar) WRSF3(6) Carntyne Greyhound Stadium, Glasgow
Source: Boxing 04/10/1939 page 9
Match made at 9st
Attendance: 4000
King overweight
Oct 9 Frank Kenny (Glasgow) LPTS(10) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 11/10/1939 page 12
Oct 14 George Marsden (Nottingham) WRSF4(12) Sportsdrome, Southampton
Source: Boxing Weekly Record 18/10/1939 page 10
Nov 20 Billy Charlton (Gateshead) LPTS(10) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing 22/11/1939 page 2
Charlton boxed for the Northern Area Featherweight Title 1937 and 1938.
Match made at 9st 3lbs
Attendance: 7000
both overweight
1940
Mar 18 Jackie Rankin (Southall) LPTS(10) Empress Stadium, Earls' Court
Source: Boxing 20/03/1940 page 9
Rankin was Southern Area Featherweight Champion 1940.
Arranged by Marquis of Queensberry and John Harding
1942
Jun 23 Fred Barry (RN) DRAW(3) Ceylon
Source: Boxing News 09/07/1942 page 13
1943
Nov 19 Ben Duffy (Jarrow) DRAW(10) Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing News 25/11/1943 page 15
Duffy boxed for the Northern Area Featherweight Title 1945 and 1946 and 1949.
King 9st 2lbs 4ozs
Dec 15 Sid Worgan (Llanharan) WPTS(8) Queensberry Club, Soho
Source: Boxing News 06/01/1944 pages 7 and 11
Worgan was Welsh Area Featherweight Champion 1944.
King 9st 3lbs
1944
Mar 24 Nel Tarleton (Liverpool) WDSQ2 Belle Vue, Manchester
Source: Boxing News 13/04/1944 pages 11 and 12
Aug 7 Nel Tarleton (Liverpool) LPTS(8) Nottingham
Source: Boxing News 09/11/1944 page 11

1945
Sep 8 Eddie Miller (Australia) LKO3 Sydney Australia
Source: Brian Strickland (Boxing Historian)
1946
Nov 8 Frank Kenny (Glasgow) LPTS(8) Blackburn
Source: Boxing News 20/11/1946 page 11
King 9st 0lbs 8ozs Kenny 9st 0lbs
1947
Jan 14 Teddy O'Neill (Dumbarton) LPTS Royal Albert Hall, Kensington
Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian)
O'Neill was Scottish Area Bantamweight Champion 1937-48.
Feb 10 Jackie Paterson (Glasgow) LKO7(15) Manchester
Source: Boxing News 05/03/1947 pages 9 and 10
(British Bantamweight Title)
Paterson was British and British Empire and European and World Champion
from and Flyweight to Bantamweight between 1939 and 1949.
© This record was researched and compiled by Miles Templeton and Richard Ireland. It may be published
elsewhere provided full acknowledgement and a link to www.boxinghistory.org.uk are included
© www.boxinghistory.org.uk - all rights reserved
This page has been brought to you by www.boxinghistory.org.uk
Click on the image above to visit our site
We have a lot more information on this boxer, and for all of the boxers listed on this record.
Please email boxinghistory@hotmail.co.uk or phone 07872 578596 for details