Sammy Lockhart

Name: Sammy Lockhart
Hometown: Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Died: 2011-05-16 (Age:64)
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

Obituary Irish News, Belfast, issue Tuesday June 21, 2011

SAMMY Lockhart, a former Northern Ireland Area Super-featherweight champion, has passed away in his home city of Lisburn. Aged 64, he suffered a massive heart attack.

A three-times Ulster senior amateur champion, and an Irish internaional, Sammy started in boxing with Lisburn ABC as a juvenile. However, he moved on to join the Achilles Club in downtown Belfast, and plundered the Ulster Senior Featherweight titles of 1965 and 1966.

From the 1966 success, he secured a spot in the Northern Ireland boxing team, and won a bronze medal from the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.

A year later, he joined the St John Bosco Club, at Donegall Street, Befast, and moved up a weight class to clinch the 1967 Ulster Lightweight crown.

Sammy, whose older brother John was an Ulster Junior champion with the Lisburn Club, turned professional on September 25, 1967, claiming a sixth-round stoppage win against Bill Kotey in the Hilton Hotel, London.

In his seventh outing, he beat Belfast's Sean McCafferty on a fourth-round disqualification in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, on February 10, 1970, to clinch the Northern Ireland Area super-featherweight belt.

Lockhart's hope of making in through to the big time suffered a shattering setback in the Ulster Hall, on October 20, 1970. He was knocked out in the second round by Scotland's future World Lightweight champion Jim Watt.

His ring career closed with a first-round stoppage loss to Strabane-born Noel McIvor on January 22, 1973, in London's N.S.C. His professional career tab finished on 10-8-1.