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Among British amateur boxers, only those who have won Olympic gold medals tended to achieve recognition beyond the boundaries of amateur boxing. They included Harry Mallin (middleweight), 1920 and 1924), Terry Spinks (Flyweight, 1956), Dick McTaggart (Lightweight, 1956) and Chris Finnegan (average weight, 1968). In 1908, during the Olympic Games in London, five weight classes were contested, bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight. British boxers won them all, and four of the finals were all British!

It's the professional side of boxing, however, which produced the celebrities whose activities the public have generally followed. In the period between boxing with bare hands and post-Queensberry boxing, Jem Mace was important. He has made many traditions of the old London Prize-Ring, but to promote the use of gloves and helped popularize the sport in the United States and Australia. In the post-Queensberry, the first British fighter to achieve superstar status was Bob Fitzsimmons. It weighed under 12 stone but won world titles at middleweight (1892), Heavyweight (1903) and heavy (1897) and fought his last fight at the age of fifty-two.

combatants who have successfully led fierce local pride. The best example was Jimmy Wilde, a Welsh flyweight who won the world championship flyweight in 1916 and served until 1923. Once he had a sequence of eighty-eight fights without defeat. Between 1911 and 1923, he won sixty-five of his fights by knockout. He was the idol of Wales, where they commonly believed to be the best boxer, pound for pound, who ever lived. It has been described as the atom "Mighty" and "the ghost with a hammer in his hand." Freddy Welsh (Freddy Thomas Hall), from Pontypridd, won the lightweight title in 1912.

The Scots have a similar pride in Benny Lynch, a flyweight from Glasgow, who held the world flyweight title in 1935 and again in 1937. Over the years, Scots have had great success at this weight, Jackie Paterson won the title in 1943 and Walter McGowan in 1966. Ken Buchanan won the lightweight title in 1971 and Jim Watt in 1980. In Northern Ireland, Rinty Monahan held the flyweight title from 1947 to 1950 and Barry McGuigan won the WBA feather in 1985.

England, also had its successes lightweights. Among the risers, Jackie Brown won the title in 1932, Peter Kane in 1938 and Terry Allen in 1950 and Naseem Hamed in the 1990s.

The Welsh had their own pen legend Jim Driscoll. His nickname was "Peerless Jim", he was born in the onetime Irish "slums" of Newtown. Jim was the first outright winner of the Lord Lonsdale belt. Jim had won prolific British, Empire and European titles. Jim is regarded by many as the best pound for pound fighter of all time.

Britain has had other popular world champions. In the 1930s, Jackie Berg won the Light-welterweight in the 1940s, Freddie Mills won the Light-Heavyweight title in 1950 and 1960, Randolph Turpin and Terry Downes won middleweight titles, and in the years 1970, John Conteh and John Stracey won the Light-Heavyweight and Welterweight titles respectively. With many bodies as if the award in 1980 and 1990, the public became unsure about who was the champion.

Nevertheless, the success of Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Joe Calzaghe continued to make significant media coverage to boxing and has undergone a considerable public following.

The most popular boxers, howevers, have not always been the world title holders. While fighting for the world title in Division trucks can confer celebrity status, as shown by Henry Cooper, who twice unsuccessfully fought Muhammad Ali in the 1960s.

Great Britain had to wait 100 years for his Heavyweight champion since Bob Fitzsimmons first lost his title in 1899. Lennox Lewis became und.