John Irwin (born 31 May 1969, Doncaster), known as Jon Jo Irwin, is a retired English amateur featherweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1990s.

Boxing career

Amateur

As an amateur he represented England and won a gold medal in the -57 kg featherweight division, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.[1][2]

He also won the prestigious 1991 ABA featherweight championship, against Mark Bowers[1] (Pinewood Starr ABC (Crowthorne),[3] boxing out of Tom Hill ABC (Doncaster).[4]

Professional

As a professional won the Irish featherweight title, World Boxing Board (WBB) super featherweight title, World Boxing Organization (WBO) Inter-Continental featherweight title, British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British featherweight title against Paul Ingle, and European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight title against Steve Robinson, his professional fighting weight varied from 124+3⁄4 lb (56.6 kg; 8 st 12.8 lb), i.e. featherweight to 129 lb (59 kg; 9 st 3 lb), i.e. super featherweight.[5]

References

  1. ^ "1990 Athletes". Team England.
  2. ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 21 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  3. ^ "104th ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Roll of Honour". England Boxing.
  5. ^ "Statistics at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Jo_Irwin
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