Johnny Pritchett
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 February 1943 Bingham, England | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | light middle/middle/light heavyweight | ||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 34 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins | 32 (KO 20) | ||||||||||||||
| Losses | 1 (KO 0) | ||||||||||||||
| Draws | 1 | ||||||||||||||
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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
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[1], 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
Pritchett managed; Dave Needham, Howard Hayes[2], Johnny Cheshire[3], and Dave Symonds.[11]
References
- ^ "Birth details at freebmd.org.uk". freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ "1959 ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "1962 75th ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "1963 76th ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- ^ "1962 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Boxers for Empire Games". Staffordshire Sentinel. 18 August 1962. p. 8. Retrieved 25 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "England Perth 1962". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games - Perth, Australia - November 22 - December 1 1962". Amateur Boxing. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
- ^ "Statistics at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ "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.
External links
- Boxing record for Johnny Pritchett from BoxRec (registration required)
- Image - Johnny Pritchett
