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Any info on how many British champs have been from Liverpool out of interest please?

I know Conteh and that Light Middle Michael Jones held the title.

McKeever held the British Featherweight title .

Any Heavyweight ones?

Max Molyneux wrote:Any Heavyweight ones?

I checked the titles bit on boxrec and suprinsgly there's not even one .

That will have to change one day.

Closet one is from Blackpool.

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=009380

I'm just more of a HW fan and was wondering.

Max Molyneux wrote:

That will have to change one day.

Look out for Anthony Bellew in a few years time.

Neri1983 wrote:

Max Molyneux wrote:

That will have to change one day.

Look out for Anthony Bellew in a few years time.

Will do.

Hi, First time post for me. Just to mention, Jamie Mc'Keever, despite what
Paul Dempsey kept on saying on Sky the other night, is from Birkenhead
across the river Mersey. All the Birkonians would kill you for saying they
are Scousers! :P

Liverpool has produced many champions over the years ....... when Rob Snell reads this I'm sure he'll have a list of them.

Can't think of any Heavyweight Champs but Billy Aird unsuccessfully challenged for the Brit, Comm and Euro titles.

Of course, there is Tony Dodson also.

Tony Willis

Nel Tarleton

Paul Hodkinson, Andy Holligan, Sugar Gibiliru

Alan Rudkin - possibly the best of the lot. Took Fighting Harada the distance and got blasted out by Ruben Olivares in two rounds.
Two more recent that haven't been mentioned yet are Paul Lloyd and Gary Thornhill. We seem to produce alot of champs at the lower weights.

A few more not already mentioned:

Pat and Les McAteer
Ernie Roderick
Wally Thom
Johnny Cooke
Joey Singleton

and Keith Wallace (Commonwealth Champ only)

lamphey wrote:A few more not already mentioned:

Pat and Les McAteer

Any relation to former Liverpool and Eire player Jason McAteer, by any chance? I'm sure I read, once upon a time, that his family had a boxing background. I could be very, very wrong of course.

holyfields_ear wrote:Alan Rudkin - possibly the best of the lot. Took Fighting Harada the distance and got blasted out by Ruben Olivares in two rounds.
Two more recent that haven't been mentioned yet are Paul Lloyd and Gary Thornhill. We seem to produce alot of champs at the lower weights.

They need some pies then to win at heavier weights. :P

states wrote:

lamphey wrote:A few more not already mentioned:

Pat and Les McAteer

Any relation to former Liverpool and Eire player Jason McAteer, by any chance? I'm sure I read, once upon a time, that his family had a boxing background. I could be very, very wrong of course.

Yes, they are his uncles.

GreenViking wrote:Hi, First time post for me. Just to mention, Jamie Mc'Keever, despite what
Paul Dempsey kept on saying on Sky the other night, is from Birkenhead
across the river Mersey. All the Birkonians would kill you for saying they
are Scousers! :P

They sure have our accent which makes them plassy scousers.

How good is former British and Commonwealth Light Middle champion Michael Jones?

Only been beat by Moore.

http://boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=001218

Wears an Irish flag on his shorts too.

stujones wrote:Of course, there is Tony Dodson also.

Just noticed that.

Was he stripped!

Merseyside Boxers website here.

Go to menu on righthand side to navigate around the site.

http://www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk/inmylife/Cha ... t/1116.htm

Thanks.

As far as heavies go, I can only think of Noel Quarless who was a decent scouse heavy in his day. Lennox smashed him on his way up, but there is no shame in that!

He had a great result beating Big John Tate in the now deceased ex champs last fight and also beat Anders Eklund early in his career.

He got as far as final eliminators for the British crown but couldnt make the final push to title shots.