Alan Minter & John Conteh

[Major tom]

My mate tells a great story from his dad of how his dad was in the corner of an amateur boxer in the national championships and this lad beat Alan Minter & John Conteh on the same night, in late 60's the lads name was Bobby Blower from Wolverhampton, my mates dad has since passed away but at a dinner evening he got to meet Alan & John and repeated the story to which they both agreed Bobby blower was a great amateur & glad he never turned pro ... be nice if anyone had any info on that lad from Wolverhampton

[Ezzard]

That's a great story. I would love to know more about this guy. I'm from The Black Country too.

[Controversial]

My mate tells a great story from his dad of how his dad was in the corner of an amateur boxer in the national championships and this lad beat Alan Minter & John Conteh on the same night, in late 60's the lads name was Bobby Blower from Wolverhampton, my mates dad has since passed away but at a dinner evening he got to meet Alan & John and repeated the story to which they both agreed Bobby blower was a great amateur & glad he never turned pro ... be nice if anyone had any info on that lad from Wolverhampton

“When I was seventeen, in 1968, I failed miserably in the Junior ABA [Amateur Boxing Association] championships in Basildon. I boxed a lad from Wolverhampton called Bobby Blower who had beaten Alan Minter in the morning; and then he stopped me in two rounds in the afternoon. Bobby went on to win the championships. I came back to Kirby and thought, ‘You’ve got to think seriously about this. Could you have done better?’

“Then that was it. Total commitment. I won the senior ABAs at middleweight in 1970, then the [middleweight] gold medal at the Commonwealth Games [same year, held in Edinburgh, Scotland], then in 1971 I won the ABAs again, but this time at light heavyweight.”

[Flump]

I've not heard of this guy, but that's incredible, there can't be many people who beat 2 professional world champs in the same day, albeit years before.

[Bladder]

It was Billy Knight and Conteh he stopped on the same day, not Minter. Knight went on to be a three-time ABA champion, Commonwealth champion, Olympian and challenged Minter for the British title in the pros.

Blower did beat Minter three times in the amateurs, all on points but not on the same day as Conteh. In his autobiography, Minter describes Blower as one of the best boxers he ever fought.