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Has anyone ever won a British title at more than two weights?

Closest i can find is Jason booth who held the British at fly and superbantam and unsuccessfully challenged for the bantam

Haskins?

Ted Kid Lewis - FEA, W, M, LH
Len Harvey - M, LH, H

handsofstone wrote:Haskins?

superfly and bantam

David Barnes is another who won it at 2 weights. Should have achieved far more too given his skillset

ginty wrote:

Bundana wrote:Ted Kid Lewis - FEA, W, M, LH
Len Harvey - M, LH, H

len harvey has an amazing record fighting from fly weight to heavyweight turning pro at 12

That is incredible - thought it was a joke

rossij8 wrote:

ginty wrote:

Bundana wrote:Ted Kid Lewis - FEA, W, M, LH
Len Harvey - M, LH, H

len harvey has an amazing record fighting from fly weight to heavyweight turning pro at 12

That is incredible - thought it was a joke

Is it a joke?

Had only 14 losses in 140 fights. Should be more heralded. Never heard of him until now

Fitzy901 wrote:

rossij8 wrote:

ginty wrote:
len harvey has an amazing record fighting from fly weight to heavyweight turning pro at 12

That is incredible - thought it was a joke

Is it a joke?

Not sure tbf He was defo 12 or 13 looking at age and debut

ginty wrote:

Fitzy901 wrote:

rossij8 wrote:
That is incredible - thought it was a joke

Is it a joke?

No I guess starting at 12 he was still a young boy and he grew into the higher weights as he got older

His second opponent was a middleweight

It is fornicating madness.

He won the British middleweight,light heavy, heavyweight title in one year
That's some going

Just looked at Harveys record and noticed he fought for the British aged18, so when did the board raise it to 20 or whatever it is now ?

littlepug wrote:Just looked at Harveys record and noticed he fought for the British aged18, so when did the board raise it to 20 or whatever it is now ?

Is that rule still in place? Effing stupid, if your good enough York old enough, look at the Mexicans. World champs in their teens.

I can only come up with this

Bunny Johnson won British titles at Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight
Dennis Andries won British titles at Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight
Colin Lynes won British titles at Light Welterweight and Welterweight
Stephen Smith has British titles at Feather and Super Featherweight
Jackie Paterson won British titles at Fly weight and Bantamweight

Honourable mention to Billy Waith, who contested British title eliminators at 4 different weights but never won the British title.

Hugh Russell won the British Bantamweight title then after losing it moved down to win the Flyweight title.

Harvey also fought for the Welter title, and got a draw.

Not quite the same, but from memory I think Calzaghe was the first fighter to win consecutive ABA titles at Welter, Light-Middle and Middle.

Duke McKenzie won titles at 3 weights.

British, Euro and IBFflyweight titles

WBO bantamweight title

British featherweight title