Johnny Pritchett
Johnny Pritchett | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 15 February 1943 Bingham, England | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
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| Weight(s) | light middle/middle/light heavyweight | ||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 34 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins | 32 (KO 20) | ||||||||||||||
| Losses | 1 (KO 0) | ||||||||||||||
| Draws | 1 | ||||||||||||||
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John G Pritchett (born 15 February 1943)[1] is an English amateur welterweight and professional light middle/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s, and boxing manager of the 1970s and '80s. He fought as Johnny Pritchett.
Boxing career
[edit]As an amateur won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1959 Junior Class-A title against B. Ford (St Peters ABC),[2] boxing out of Bingham & District ABC, won the 1962 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Harry Dean (Oxford YMCA),[3] boxing out of Bingham & District ABC and won the 1963 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Ralph Charles (West Ham ABC),[4] boxing out of Bingham & District ABC.
He represented England and won the silver medal at welterweight in the Boxing at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, losing to Wallace Coe of New Zealand.[5][6]
As a professional he won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British middleweight title, and British Commonwealth middleweight title, and was a challenger for the European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title against Juan Carlos Durán[1], his professional fighting weight varied from 153+1⁄4 lb (69.5 kg; 10 st 13.3 lb), i.e. light middleweight to 162+1⁄2 lb (73.7 kg; 11 st 8.5 lb), i.e. light heavyweight.[7]
Boxing manager
[edit]Pritchett managed; Dave Needham, Howard Hayes[2], Johnny Cheshire[3], and Dave Symonds.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Birth details at freebmd.org.uk". freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ "1959 ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Archived from the original on 16 April 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ "1962 75th ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Archived from the original on 6 July 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ "1963 76th ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "1962 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Statistics at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ "A man who is grateful to boxing talks to George Zeleny". boxingnewsmagazine.com. 31 December 2013. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
External links
[edit]- Boxing record for Johnny Pritchett from BoxRec (registration required)
- Image - Johnny Pritchett[permanent dead link]
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