AUSTRALIAN TITLE HOLDERS

fox · Post by **fox** » 09 Oct 2007, 06:54

I thought that tommy burns was canadian. Did he fight for aussie title when he was here. Australias tommy burns was welterweight and never won world title

Matt Ropis · Post by **Matt Ropis** » 09 Oct 2007, 09:29

Yeah thats right Foxy the Canadian Heavyweight world champion is the one I'm talking about. Check his record if you don't believe me.
Matt

Brute · Post by **Brute** » 10 Oct 2007, 06:25

For a while early in the twentieth century, Australian titles were held in high regard as many top American boxers came to Australia as boxing was illegal in America. This was because Middleweight Champion Stanley Ketchel was shot dead in 1910 by the boyfriend or husband of a woman he was playing up with. What that had to do with boxing I will never know.

Strange ideas some people had.

toppity · Post by **toppity** » 11 Oct 2007, 03:27

Obscure one, but didn't Nathan Sting win the WBE and WBU Batam titles (whoever the hell those associations are?)

Brute · Post by **Brute** » 11 Oct 2007, 05:57

toppity wrote:Obscure one, but didn't Nathan Sting win the WBE and WBU Batam titles (whoever the hell those associations are?)

WBU is a title usually held by Poms. I think it stands for World Boxing Union. Hatton was WBU Super Lightweight Champ before beating Tszyu. Sting beat Nicky Booth, a BBBC and sometime Commonwealth Champ.
It was Booth's last fight.

I have no idea what the WBE is. To win that title Sting beat Ray Martizano, a Filipinino who currently holds a 1-12-2 record. For crappy records this probably takes the biscuit.

Brute · Post by **Brute** » 21 Nov 2007, 00:12

Here is one who became an Australian (at least he fought in the second AIF) after his World reign was over.

Tod Morgan. Morgan held the World Junior Lightweight title for about four years in the late '20s. He later came out here and beat Jimmy Dundee for the vacant Australian Lightweight title in about 1938 and held it until Vic Patrick took it from him in about 1941. Morgan retired from boxing in 1942 and fought for Australia in the Second World War in Africa. He may have returned to North America before he died in 1953.

Citizen of the world, perhaps.