Tommy Fairhall

Name: Tommy Fairhall
Alias: Nutty Fairhall
Birth Name: Thomas Alfred Fairhall
Hometown: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Birthplace: Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 1986-02-19 (Age:84)
Height: 171cm
Reach: 175cm
Referee: Record
Pro Boxer: Record

Manager/Trainer: Jack Dunleavy

Tommy Fairhall was the Commonwealth (British Empire) lightweight champion in 1928 and the Australian welterweight champion in 1930. Fairhall vacated the Australian title in 1931, while fighting in New Zealand.

In 1923, Fairhall suffered a jaw injury in his bout with Jack Finney. Two weeks later, after his match with Eugene Volaire, an x-ray discovered his jaw was fractured. Fairhall took three months to recover.

After leaving the ring, Fairhall joined with a New Zealand expeditionary contingent and was active in Greece, Crete, and Palestine in World War II.

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder said of Fairhall, "He was scrupulously fair, and acted the gentleman and sportsman both inside and outside the ring."

Sources

• "Tommy Fairhall Surrenders Welterweight Title" The Referee (1931, Apr. 13) p. 14. Article
• "Tommy Fairhall Says Au Revoir" The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder (1923, Nov. 9) p. 8. Article
• "Tommy Fairhall" South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (1942, Feb. 6) p. 4. Article

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According to information found in the Family Tree section on Ancestry.com, one Thomas Alfred "Nutty" Fairhall was born on November 25, 1901 in Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia and died on February 19, 1986 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.