British Fighters In World Title Fights

[wrimc]

know this list is not complete and anybody who can find any omissions could you please point them out. I made this list in research for a book i'm thinking about writing and for my own reference but i thought i would share it with you so feel free to copy and paste it. I include only the big 4 WBC WBA WBO IBF interim titles don't count but if upgraded to full title status and defended eg (Arthur) they appear.


1890
1891 Fitzsimmons
1892
1893
1894 Fitzsimmons
1895
1896 Fitzsimmons x2
1897 Fitzsimmons
1898
1899 Fitzsimmons
1900
1901
1902 Fitzsimmons
1903 Fitzsimmons
1904
1905 Fitzsimmons
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910 Joseph
1911
1912
1913 Sid Smith Ladbury
1914 Welsh Wells McCormick x2 Blake Ladbury P Jones
1915 Lewis x5 Welsh x5 Wells Lee
1916 Lewis x8Welsh x3 Wilde x4 Hughes Lee
1917 Lewis x2Welsh x2 Wilde Clark
1918 Lewis x5 Wilde
1919 Lewis x4 Heasman
1920 Wilde x4
1921 Lewis
1922 Lewis
1923 Wilde
1924
1925
1926
1927 Baldock Milligan
1928
1929
1930 Berg x4
1931 Berg x5
1932 Berg Harvey
1933 King Watson
1934 Tarleton
1935 Lynch
1936 McAvoy Harvey Lynch
1937 Farr Lynch x2
1938
1939 Roderick
1940
1941
1942
1943 Kane Paterson
1944
1945
1946 Paterson Curran James
1947 Monaghan
1948 Paterson Monaghan
1949 Monaghan x2 Allen
1950 Mills Woodcock (?) Allen
1951 Turpin x2 Allen
1952 Keenan
1953 Turpin Allen
1954
1955 Cockell
1956
1957
1957
1958
1959 Charnley
1960 Gilroy
1961 Downes x2 Charnley
1962 Caldwell
1963
1964 Downes Curvis
1965 Rudkin Winstone
1966 McGowan x2 Cooper London
1967 McGowan Winstone x2
1968 Winstone x2
1969 Rudkin x2
1970 Buchanan
1971 Buchanan x2
1972 Buchanan Finnegan Charles
1973
1974 Conteh
1975 Buchanan Conteh Bugner Stracey
1976 Conteh Dunn Stracey x2
1977 Conteh Hope Green
1978 Conteh
1979 Conteh Watt x2 Hope x2
1980 Minter x3 Owen Hope x2 Conteh Green Nash Watt x3
1981 Hope Watt Cowdell
1982
1983 C Jones x2 Sibson Boza-Edwards Magri x2
1984 Sutherland
1985 C Jones Gumbs McGuigan x2 Cowdell Magri
1986 Bruno Honeyghan Sibson Andries x2 McGuigan x2 Boza-Edwards Daho
1987 Honeyghan x4 Andries Marsh x2 Boza-Edwards McAuley
1988 McDonnell Honeyghan x2 Sibson McKenzie McAuley
1989 McDonell Bruno Honeyghan Andries x2 Mckenzie x2 McCrory x2 Graham Collins McAuley x2
1990 Honeyghan McAuley x2 Andries x2 McCrory Benn x3 Eubank Reeson Graham
1991 Mckenzie Hodkinson Eubank x4 Watson x2 Stretch Collins Andries x2 Hardy Driscoll Jacobs McAuley x2
1992 McMillan x2 Mckenzie x3 Hodkinson x2 Piper Benn x2 Eubank x5 Barret Angol Porter McAuley Clinton x2
1993 Robinson x3 McMillan Pyattx2 Davison Murphy Mckenzie McCrory Hodkinson x2 Holligan Bruno Lewis x2 Benn x3 Bentt Eubank x3 Ashley Ayers Weir x2 Loughran Clinton
1994 Collins Pyatt x2 Robinson x3 Hodkinson Lewis x2 Havard Piper Benn x2 Hide Bentt Eubank x6 Weir x2 Storey Loughran x2 Ampofo Wharton x2
1995 Regan Robinson x3 Hamed Jacobs Bruno Benn x3 Hide Eubank x2 Collins Ashley McCullough x2 Carr Weir x2 P Jones Loughran x3
1996 Bingham Benn x3 Regan Doherty Lewis Hamed x3 Bruno McCullough Brown Weir Loughran
1997 Wharton Reid x4 Eubank Calzaghe Hide Akinwade Lewis x3 Welch Rhodes Dodson Foster Jones Cantwell x2 Hardy Hamed x5 McCullough Lueshing Lowey Carruth
1998 Wenton Hamed x2 Lewis x2 Hide x2 McCullough Woodhall x2 Catley Calzaghe x2 Thompson x2 Eubank x2 Dunstan Graham Piper Prince
1999 Lewis x2 Hamed x2 Nelson x5 Clarke Hide Thompson Scott x2 Lloyd Ingle x2 McCullough Schwer Woodhall x2 Calzaghe x2 Reid Matthews
2000: Catley Calzaghe x3 Hamed x2 Lewis x3 Ingle x2 Mcracken x1 Woodhall x1 Nelson x2 Neil Sinclair x1 Pickering Cantwell Starie Jones Brodie
2001: Calzaghe x2 Lewis x2 Eastman Alexander Starie Nelson x2 Stone
2002: Calzaghe x3 Woods Lewis Harrison Nelson x2 Takaloo
2003: Calzaghe Woods Lewis Reid Harrison x3 Neslon Starie Mcullough Brodie Kelly
2004: Calzaghe x2 Woods Williams Harrison x3 Nelson Brodie
2005: Calzaghe x2 Woods x2 Hatton x2 Reid Eastman Harrison x2 Brodie Nelson Mcullough x2
2006: Calzaghe x2 Woods x2 Hatton Macarinelli Hobson Hunter Witter
2007: Calzaghe Woods Hatton x2 Rees Macarinelli x3 Haye Elcock Witter x2
2008: Woods Skelton Froch Lockett Rees Macarinelli Cook Arthur Haye Witter
2009: Woods Jennings Afolabi Cook Froch x2 Khan x2 Haye Witter
2010: Haye Froch Khan

[mickey1975]

1994-Wharton x2

[Deno1986]

There are a lot of Irish fighters in there. Collins and Carruth are not British. I'd recommend changing the thread title to 'British and Irish' to avoid a heated confrontation.

[wrimc]

I will remove Carruth and Ste Collins did not mean to include Irish fighters really as i am purely interested in British fighters i thought i had removed all the all Ste Collins fights will check over now any additions are welcome Mcguigan is for this purpose considered British

[boxer70]

!990 Johnny Nelson v Carlos De Leon. WBC Cruiseweight Title. ( the most boring world title fight ever!)

[Old bones Ian]

a few early ones for you that have been missed, do i get a credit in this book

1887 Jeb Carney
1888 William McMillan
1889 Frank Murphy
1890 Ike Weir, Nunc Wallace
1894 Charlie Mitchell
1896 Dick Burge
1897 Walter Croot
1899 Pedlar Palmer
1901 Pedlar Palmer
1902 Tommy West
1903 Andy Tokell, Johnny Gorman
1904 Joe Bowker
1905 Digger Stanley
1907 Gunner Moir
1908 Owen Moran x2, Jack Palmer, Spike Robson, Jewey Smith
1910 Jim Kendrick
1911 Jim Sullivan, Owen Moran
1916 Charlie White
1921 Danny Frush
1922 Danny Frush
1924 Ted Moore
1927 Elky Clark, Ernie Jarvis,
1929 Ernie Jarvis
1932 Jackie Brown
1933 Jackie Brown, Ginger Foran,
1934 Jackie Brown
1935 Nel Tharleton
1936 Dave Crowley, Pat Palmer
1938 Peter Kane

I'll do from 1940 onwards later.

some other people that fought for 'world' titles that were not recognized by most were.

Bruce Woodcock fought Lee Savold which was only recognized by the British board.
As the British board said Len Harvey (1939) and Freddie Mills (1942) were world champions.
Randy Turpin was recognized as world champion after beating Charles Humez (1953), this title claim was recognized in Europe only.
Matt Wells claimed to be welter champ in early 1900's
Ben Jordan beat the world featherweight champ George Dixon in 1898, but Dixon said it was a non title bout, only after the fight did he claim this!
Jim Driscoll also beat a reigning champ and claimed to be champ, but this was a non title bout.
A boxer called Tommy Noble did win a world championship belt in 1920, at Featherweight, but no-one knows who gave him the belt, so his claim wasn't taken seriously.
At Bantam we have British boxers in the late 1890's claiming the title. Chappie Moran and Billy Plimmer.

With any research i would always suggest getting hold of record books from the years you are looking at. i got most of those names from reading record books from the 1900's onwards.
Internet records are very good, but the books have fights that are sometimes missed by the internet.

[wrimc]

a few early ones for you that have been missed, do i get a credit in this book

1887 Jeb Carney
1888 William McMillan
1889 Frank Murphy
1890 Ike Weir, Nunc Wallace
1894 Charlie Mitchell
1896 Dick Burge
1897 Walter Croot
1899 Pedlar Palmer
1901 Pedlar Palmer
1902 Tommy West
1903 Andy Tokell, Johnny Gorman
1904 Joe Bowker
1905 Digger Stanley
1907 Gunner Moir
1908 Owen Moran x2, Jack Palmer, Spike Robson, Jewey Smith
1910 Jim Kendrick
1911 Jim Sullivan, Owen Moran
1916 Charlie White
1921 Danny Frush
1922 Danny Frush
1924 Ted Moore
1927 Elky Clark, Ernie Jarvis,
1929 Ernie Jarvis
1932 Jackie Brown
1933 Jackie Brown, Ginger Foran,
1934 Jackie Brown
1935 Nel Tharleton
1936 Dave Crowley, Pat Palmer
1938 Peter Kane

I'll do from 1940 onwards later.

some other people that fought for 'world' titles that were not recognized by most were.

Bruce Woodcock fought Lee Savold which was only recognized by the British board.
As the British board said Len Harvey (1939) and Freddie Mills (1942) were world champions.
Randy Turpin was recognized as world champion after beating Charles Humez (1953), this title claim was recognized in Europe only.
Matt Wells claimed to be welter champ in early 1900's
Ben Jordan beat the world featherweight champ George Dixon in 1898, but Dixon said it was a non title bout, only after the fight did he claim this!
Jim Driscoll also beat a reigning champ and claimed to be champ, but this was a non title bout.
A boxer called Tommy Noble did win a world championship belt in 1920, at Featherweight, but no-one knows who gave him the belt, so his claim wasn't taken seriously.
At Bantam we have British boxers in the late 1890's claiming the title. Chappie Moran and Billy Plimmer.

With any research i would always suggest getting hold of record books from the years you are looking at. i got most of those names from reading record books from the 1900's onwards.
Internet records are very good, but the books have fights that are sometimes missed by the internet.

Great stuff was really struggling with some of the post war fighters it can get fairly messy with some of the claims to tiles and recognised by this association/region etc the problem seems to appear in fights where the champion was beaten in non title bouts which occured enough for it to cause a problem to the record keepers. Thanks for all your help anything else keep it coming

[jimglen]

Freddie Mills vs Gus Lesnivich 1946
Freddie Mills vs Gus Lesnivich 1948

[Old bones Ian]

1950 Danny O'Sullivan
1957 Dai Dower
1959 Brian London
1961 Johnny Caldwell

[stujones]

Do you have Schwer's world title effort in 1995?
Duke McKenzie 1994 (vs Robinson).
Lou Gent 1993 (vs Nigel Benn)