List of British featherweight boxing champions

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List of British featherweight boxing champions

List of British featherweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers

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 have won the British

United Kingdom

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featherweight

Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing and wrestling ....
championship. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club

National Sporting Club

The National Sporting Club was a club founded in London in 1891, which did more to establish the sport of boxing in Great Britain than any other organisation....
since 1909, and later by its replacement British Boxing Board of Control

British Boxing Board of Control

The British Boxing Board of Control is the governing body of professional boxing in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1929 from the old National Sporting Club and is headquartered in Cardiff....
since 1929.

A champion may retire or voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship. Where a champion relinquished the title, the date of his final defence is shown with “(rel)” after it.

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List of British featherweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers

Boxing

United Kingdom

Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing and wrestling ....
championship. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club

National Sporting Club

British Boxing Board of Control

Name	Duration of reign	Defences
Jim Driscoll Jim Driscoll James "Jim" Driscoll was a Wales boxing who learned his trade in the boxing ring and used it to fight his way out of poverty.Born on Ellen Street, Newtown, Cardiff in 1880, Driscoll gained fame for winning the coveted Lonsdale belt in 1910....	3 June 1907 — 27 January 1913 (rel February 1913)	4
Ted Kid Lewis	6 October 1913 (rel 1914)	0
Llew Edwards	31 May 1915 (rel 1916)	0
Charlie Hardcastle	4 June 1917 — 5 November 1917	1
Tancy Lee	5 November 1917 — 24 February 1919 (rel 1919)	2
Mike Honeyman	26 January 1920 — 31 October 1921	2
Joey Fox	31 October 1921 (rel 1923)	0
George McKenzie George McKenzie George McKenzie was a United Kingdom bantamweight professional boxing who competed in the 1920s.He was born in Leith, Scotland...	2 June 1924 — 30 March 1925	2
Johnny Curley	30 March 1925 — 24 January 1927	3
Johnny Cuthbert	24 January 1927 — 12 March 1928	1
Harry Corbett	12 March 1928 — 18 March 1929	1
Johnny Cuthbert	18 March 1929 — 1 October 1931	4
Nel Tarleton Nel Tarleton Nel Tarleton was an England featherweight Boxing from Liverpool, England. He was United Kingdom featherweight champion on three separate occasions and, despite only having one lung, continued fighting until he was 42....	1 October 1931 — 10 November 1932	1
Seaman Tommy Watson	10 November 1932 — 26 July 1934	2
Nel Tarleton Nel Tarleton Nel Tarleton was an England featherweight Boxing from Liverpool, England. He was United Kingdom featherweight champion on three separate occasions and, despite only having one lung, continued fighting until he was 42....	26 July 1934 — 24 September 1936	3
Johnny Mcgrory	24 September 1936 (rel 1938)	0
Jim Spider Kelly	23 November 1938 — 28 June 1939	1
Nipper Johnny Cusick	28 June 1939 — 1 February 1940	1
Nel Tarleton Nel Tarleton Nel Tarleton was an England featherweight Boxing from Liverpool, England. He was United Kingdom featherweight champion on three separate occasions and, despite only having one lung, continued fighting until he was 42....	1 February 1940 — 23 February 1945 (rel 1947)	1
Al Phillips	18 March 1947 — 11 September 1947	2
Ronnie Clayton Ronnie Clayton (boxer) Ronnie Clayton was a United Kingdom Boxing, born in Blackpool, Lancashire whose career highlight was winning the European Featherweight championship in 1947....	11 September 1947 — 1 June 1954	6
Sammy McCarthy	1 June 1954 — 22 January 1955	1
Billy Kelly Billy Kelly William "Billy" Joseph Kelly was an United States professional baseball player who played in parts of four major league season for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates from through ....	22 January 1955 — 24 February 1956	1
Charlie Hill	24 February 1956 — 13 April 1959	3
Bobby Neill	13 April 1959 — 27 September 1960	1
Terry Spinks	27 September 1960 — 2 May 1961	2
Howard Winstone Howard Winstone Howard Winstone, Order of the British Empire was a Wales world champion boxer. As an amateur, Winstone won the Amateur Boxing Association of England bantamweight title in 1958, and a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff...	2 May 1961 — 7 December 1966 (rel 1969)	6
Jimmy Revie	24 March 1969 — 5 July 1971	2
Evan Armstrong	5 July 1971 — 25 September 1972	2
Tommy Glencross	25 September 1972 — 17 September 1973	1
Evan Armstrong	17 September 1973 — 8 July 1974 (rel February 1975)	1
Vernon Sollas	25 March 1975 — 15 March 1977	1
Alan Richardson	15 March 1977 — 20 April 1978	2
Dave Needham Dave Needham (boxer) Dave Needham was a United Kingdom boxer. He was a Commonwealth Games gold medal winner and one of the few boxers to have held both the British Boxing Board of Control bantamweight and featherweight titles....	20 April 1978 — 6 November 1979	2
Pat Cowdell	6 November 1979 — 29 May 1980 (rel April 1982)	2
Steve Sims Steve Sims Steve Sims is a former England Association football Defender , probably most famous for his time at Watford F.C.. He started his career at Leicester City F.C....	20 September 1982 (rel January 1983)	0
Barry McGuigan Barry McGuigan Finbar Patrick McGuigan Order of the British Empire, more commonly known as Barry McGuigan , nicknamed the Clones Cyclone, is a former professional boxing who became a world Featherweight champion....	12 April 1983 — 19 December 1984 (rel 1985)	1
Robert Dickie	9 April 1986 — 29 October 1986 (rel 1987)	2
Peter Harris	24 February 1988 — 18 May 1988	1
Paul Hodkinson Paul Hodkinson Paul Hodkinson aka Hoko is former professional boxer. Hodkinson fought at Featherweight and is the former British, Eurpean and World Featherweight Title holder....	18 May 1988 — 6 September 1989 (rel)	2
Sean Murphy	22 May 1990 — 5 March 1991	2
Gary De Roux Gary De Roux Gary De Roux is a boxing trainer and former professional boxer.He was born in Manchester, though is most closely associated with Peterborough, where he was trained by Kevin Sanders, who went on to train Nigel Benn and several other world title holders....	5 March 1991 — 22 May 1991	1
Colin McMillan	22 May 1991 — 29 October 1991 (rel 1992)	2
John Davison	10 September 1992 (rel 1993)	0
Sean Murphy	27 June 1993 (rel 1993)	0
Duke McKenzie Duke McKenzie Duke McKenzie is British former professional boxer, now a boxing commentator for UK broadcaster ITV.He previously commentated on boxing for BBC Radio Five Live and BBC television with John Rawling....	18 December 1993 (rel)	0
Billy Hardy Billy Hardy Billy Hardy is a former bantamweight and featherweight boxing champion. He held the British championship at bantamweight and featherweight, as well as the European and Commonwealth featherweight titles....	24 May 1994 (rel 1994)	0
Mike Deveney	23 January 1995 — 20 September 1995	1
Jon Jo Irwin	20 September 1995 — 14 May 1996	2
Colin McMillan	14 May 1996 — 11 January 1997	1
Paul Ingle Paul Ingle Paul Andrew Ingle is a retired featherweight boxing. He competed for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain....	11 January 1997 — 11 October 1997 (rel)	2
Jon Jo Irwin	9 May 1998 — 13 February 1999	1
Gary Thornhill Gary Thornhill Gary Thornhill, is a former England boxing who fought at featherweight and super featherweight.He is a former BBBofC featherweight and WBF and WBO Intercontinental super featherweight champion....	16 May 2000 (rel 2000)	0
Scott Harrison Scott Harrison Scott Harrison is a former world boxing featherweight champion and the first Scottish Boxing to regain the World Boxing Organisation championship....	24 March 2001 — 17 November 2001 (rel 2002)	2
Jamie McKeever	8 February 2003 — 17 May 2003	1
Roy Rutherford	17 May 2003 — 22 November 2003	1
Dazzo Williams	22 November 2003 — 16 June 2005	4
Nicky Cook Nicky Cook Nicky Cook is an England boxing who fights at featherweight he is the current WBO super-featherweight champion and is the former BBBofC, Commonwealth and EBU featherweight champion....	16 June 2005 (rel 2005)	0
Andy Morris	5 November 2005 — 9 December 2006	2
John Simpson John Simpson (boxer) John Simpson , is a professional boxing. He is a featherweight, and is the current Commonwealth champion.Simpson is currently ranked Number 37 in the world and Number 3 in the United Kingdom in the featherweight division by BoxRec....	9 December 2006 — 6 June 2008	2
Paul Appleby Paul Appleby (boxer) Paul Appleby, is a Scotland boxing who fights in the featherweight division.He is the youngest ever BBBofC featherweight champion....	6 June 2008 — present	1

Sources

Maurice Golesworthy, Encyclopaedia of Boxing (Eighth Edition) (1988), Robert Hale Limited, ISBN 0-7090-3323-0

List of British featherweight boxing champions

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