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Johnny Pritchett
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born (1943-02-15) 15 February 1943 (age 83)
Bingham, England
Weightlight middle/middle/light heavyweight
Boxing career
Boxing record
Total fights34
Wins32 (KO 20)
Losses1 (KO 0)
Draws1
Medal record
Boxing
Representing Image England
British Empire & Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place1962 Perth51 kg flyweight

John G. Pritchett (born 15 February 1943)[1] is an English amateur welterweight and professional light middle/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s, and boxing manager of the 1970s and '80s. He fought as Johnny Pritchett.

Boxing career

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As an amateur won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1959 Junior Class-A title against B. Ford of St Peters ABC,[2] boxing out of Bingham & District ABC, won the 1962 ABA welterweight title, against Harry Dean (Oxford YMCA),[3] boxing out of Bingham & District ABC and won the 1963 ABA welterweight title, against Ralph Charles (West Ham ABC),[4] boxing out of Bingham & District ABC.

He represented the 1962 English team[5][6] at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia.[7] He competed in the welterweight category,[8] where he won a silver medal after losing to Wallace Coe of New Zealand in the final bout.[9]

As a professional he won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British middleweight title, and British Commonwealth middleweight title, and was a challenger for the European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title against Juan Carlos Durán Archived 2015-02-19 at the Wayback Machine, his professional fighting weight varied from 153+1⁄4 lb (69.5 kg; 10 st 13.3 lb), i.e. light middleweight to 162+1⁄2 lb (73.7 kg; 11 st 8.5 lb), i.e. light heavyweight.[10]

Boxing manager

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Pritchett managed; Dave Needham, Howard Hayes Archived 6 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Johnny Cheshire Archived 6 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine, and Dave Symonds.[11]

References

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  1. ↑ "Birth details at freebmd.org.uk". freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "1959 ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ↑ "1962 75th ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ "1963 76th ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  5. ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "1962 Athletes". Team England.
  7. ↑ "Boxers for Empire Games". Staffordshire Sentinel. 18 August 1962. p. 8. Retrieved 25 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "England Perth 1962". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
  9. ↑ "Commonwealth Games - Perth, Australia - November 22 - December 1 1962". Amateur Boxing. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
  10. ↑ "Statistics at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  11. ↑ "A man who is grateful to boxing talks to George Zeleny". boxingnewsmagazine.com. 31 December 2013. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
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