The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) is the governing body of professional boxing in the United Kingdom.
Dennis Andries MBE is a British former professional boxer who fought at light heavyweight.
Ronnie Clayton was a British boxer, born in Blackpool, Lancashire whose career highlight was winning the British Empire and European featherweight titles in 1947.
Brian Nancurvis, who fought under the name Brian Curvis as a professional, was a boxer from Swansea, Wales who was active from 1959 to 1966. He fought as a Welterweight, becoming British welterweight champion in 1960. He retired as undefeated champion and is the only welterweight to have won two Lonsdale Belts outright. The four defeats in his professional career were all to foreign boxers; he was never beaten by a British boxer.
John McDermott is an English former professional boxer who competed from 2000 to 2013. He is a three-time challenger for the British heavyweight title and in his last fight in March 2013, won the English heavyweight title.
Johnny Summers was an English boxer who competed from 1901 to 1920. He was a British and British Empire (Commonwealth) welterweight champion.
John Michael Basham was a Welsh boxer who became British and European champion at both welter and middleweight. His professional career spanned over 20 years, from 1909 to 1929, and after being stationed in Wrexham through military service, he fought most of his bouts in nearby Liverpool.
Stuart Hall is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2018. He held the IBF bantamweight world title from 2013 to 2014, and challenged twice for the same title in 2014 and 2016. At regional level, he held the British bantamweight title from 2010 to 2011 and the Commonwealth bantamweight title in 2012.
Pat O'Keeffe, was a professional English boxer who became the British champion in both the welterweight and middleweight weight classes. His professional career spanned the years between 1902 and 1918. In 1914 he made an unsuccessful bid for the European heavyweight belt, losing to Georges Carpentier. Between 1907 and 1910 he left Britain and continued his boxing career in the United States, and then Australia. On the outbreak of World War I he joined the British Army to work as a Physical Training Instructor (PTI) and Recruiting Sergeant for the 1st Surrey Rifles. He won the Lonsdale Belt outright when he defeated Bandsman Blake at the National Sporting Club (N.S.C) on 28 January 1918, becoming British Middleweight Champion.
Johnny King was an English professional boxer who competed from 1926 to 1947. Predominantly a bantamweight, he was a two-time British bantamweight champion and a one-time British Empire (Commonwealth) bantamweight champion. His professional fighting weight varied from 84 lb, flyweight, to 130 lb, featherweight.
Boxing in Liverpool, the United Kingdom is centered on approximately 22 amateur boxing clubs which have produced notable boxers such as John Conteh, Andy Holligan, Tony Bellew, David Price, and Callum Smith.
Pat "PatMac" McAteer born in Birkenhead was an English professional light middle/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1950s who won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British middleweight title and British Empire middleweight title and was a challenger for the European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title against Charles Humez, his professional fighting weight varied from 154 lb, i.e. light middleweight to 161 lb, i.e. light heavyweight.
Andy Till is a British former boxer who was British light middleweight champion and WBC International super welterweight champion in the early 1990s. A former milkman at Co-op Dairies, Greenford and good pals of Steve Lovell, Roger Matthews and Little Fat Willy.
Harry Dhami is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2003. He held the British welterweight title from 2000 to 2001, being the first British Asian to win a British title.
Jimmy Anderson was a British former boxer who was the first holder of the British junior lightweight title, holding it from February 1968 to January 1969, and again from February 1969 until the division was abolished in 1970 He died in January 2022. His funeral was January 14, 2022.
Henry William Coleman, better known as Harry Corbett, was an English boxer who was British featherweight champion between 1928 and 1929, and also fought for titles at bantamweight and lightweight.
Charlie Hill was a Scottish boxer who was British featherweight champion between 1956 and 1959.
Jim Hunter was a British boxer who was Scottish lightweight champion between 1930 and 1933. He held residence in Dunfermline, Scotland.
Michael Morris, who fought under the name Michael Armstrong, is a British former boxer, who was British super featherweight champion in 1992.
Arthur Frederick "Peggy" Bettinson was a skilled pugilist, becoming English Amateur Boxing Association Lightweight Champion in 1882. In 1891 Bettinson co-founded the National Sporting Club (NSC). As its manager, he implemented a strict code of conduct, rules and etiquette that was adhered to by both boxers and spectators, ushering in a culture change that brought respect and legitimacy to what had been a barely regulated, lawless and chaotic sport. He was one of boxing's most prominent and powerful advocates in England's courtrooms in an era when boxing's legal status was uncertain.
