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For the Scottish
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 footballer
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, see Gary Mason (footballer)
Gary Mason (footballer)

Gary Mason is a Scotland professional football currently playing for Scottish Premier League club St. Mirren F.C.....
.


Gary Mason (born December 15, 1962 in London
London

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, England
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, of Jamaica
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n descent), is a retired British
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 boxer
Boxing

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 who fought out of Chatham, Kent. He fought at heavyweight
Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a division, or boxing weight classes, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Organization, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing Organization....
 and became British heavyweight champion in 1989.

ought 38 times as a professional in a career that spanned 10 years from 1984 to 1994, with 34 wins by knockout and only one loss, that being to Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis

Lennox Claudius Lewis, Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire is a retired boxing who won gold for Canada at the Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur boxing....
 when he challenged for the Europe
Europe

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an title in 1991.

He suffered a detached retina in a bout with Everett Martin in 1990.






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For the Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 footballer
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
, see Gary Mason (footballer)
Gary Mason (footballer)

Gary Mason is a Scotland professional football currently playing for Scottish Premier League club St. Mirren F.C.....
.


Gary Mason (born December 15, 1962 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, of Jamaica
Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....
n descent), is a retired British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 boxer
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 who fought out of Chatham, Kent. He fought at heavyweight
Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a division, or boxing weight classes, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Organization, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing Organization....
 and became British heavyweight champion in 1989.

Pro Boxing Career

He fought 38 times as a professional in a career that spanned 10 years from 1984 to 1994, with 34 wins by knockout and only one loss, that being to Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis

Lennox Claudius Lewis, Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire is a retired boxing who won gold for Canada at the Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur boxing....
 when he challenged for the Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an title in 1991.

He suffered a detached retina in a bout with Everett Martin in 1990. After a short retirement he staged a comeback, which ended with a TKO loss to Lennox Lewis, which aggravated Mason's eye injury. He would come back once again, but after winning two fights in the U.S. he retired for good.

Rugby career

He played three rugby league
Rugby league

Rugby league football is a competitive Full-contact sport team sport played with a spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field....
 matches for London Broncos
Harlequins Rugby League

Harlequins Rugby League is a rugby league club representing the greater London area. They are currently the premier rugby league side in London, and play in the Super League ....
 (now Harlequins Rugby League
Harlequins Rugby League

Harlequins Rugby League is a rugby league club representing the greater London area. They are currently the premier rugby league side in London, and play in the Super League ....
), scoring a try in his first game.

TV Appearances

He also appeared in a special celebrity show of Gladiators that raised money for charity in 1993 which John Fashanu
John Fashanu

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 won.

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