Johnny Pritchett
{{short description|English boxer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2015}}
{{Infobox boxer
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|weight=light middle/middle/light heavyweight
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|nationality= British (English)
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1943|02|15|df=y}}
|birth_place=Bingham, England
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|total=34
|wins=32 (KO 20)
|losses=1 (KO 0)
|draws=1
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{{MedalSport | Boxing}}
{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|British Empire & Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalSilver| 1962 Perth | 51 kg flyweight}}
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{{otherpeople|John Pritchett}}
John G Pritchett (born 15 February 1943){{cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=fL7UJhJDeMc7ybQUdS5ntA&scan=1|title=Birth details at freebmd.org.uk|publisher=freebmd.org.uk|date=31 December 2012|accessdate=1 January 2013}} 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 (St Peters ABC),{{cite web|url=http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/junior/1950-1959/1959/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131105174611/http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/junior/1950-1959/1959/|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 November 2013|title=1959 ABAE National Championship|publisher=abae.co.uk|date=31 December 2012|accessdate=1 January 2013}} boxing out of Bingham & District ABC, won the 1962 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Harry Dean (Oxford YMCA),{{cite web|url=http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/1980-19891/1962/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130706195424/http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/1980-19891/1962/|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 July 2013|title=1962 75th ABAE National Championship|publisher=abae.co.uk|date=31 December 2012|accessdate=1 January 2013}} boxing out of Bingham & District ABC and won the 1963 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Ralph Charles (West Ham ABC),{{cite web|url=http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/1980-19891/1963/|title=1963 76th ABAE National Championship|publisher=abae.co.uk|date=31 December 2012|accessdate=1 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130822110156/http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/1980-19891/1963/|archivedate=22 August 2013|df=dmy-all}} boxing out of Bingham & District ABC.
He represented England and won the silver medal at welterweight in the Boxing at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, losing to Wallace Coe of New Zealand.{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/44464|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation}}{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/perth-1962/athletes|title=1962 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}
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[https://web.archive.org/web/20150219143201/http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=52785&cat=boxer], his professional fighting weight varied from {{convert|153+1/4|lb|kg stlb||abbr=on}}, i.e. light middleweight to {{convert|162+1/2|lb|kg stlb||abbr=on}}, i.e. light heavyweight.{{cite web|url=http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=38494&cat=boxer|title=Statistics at boxrec.com|publisher=boxrec.com|date=31 December 2013|accessdate=1 January 2013}}
Boxing manager
Pritchett managed; Dave Needham, Howard Hayes[http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=33655&cat=boxer], Johnny Cheshire[http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=22369&cat=boxer], and Dave Symonds.{{cite web|url=http://www.boxingnewsmagazine.com/view-Article.asp?ArticleID=70|title=A man who is grateful to boxing talks to George Zeleny|publisher=boxingnewsmagazine.com|date=31 December 2013|accessdate=1 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105161641/http://www.boxingnewsmagazine.com/view-Article.asp?ArticleID=70|archivedate=5 November 2013|df=dmy-all}}
References
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External links
- {{Boxrec|id=38494}}
- [http://static.boxrec.com/0/09/Pritchett70.jpg Image - Johnny Pritchett]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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Category:Boxers at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Category:Boxers from Nottingham
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Category:Light-heavyweight boxers
Category:Light-middleweight boxers
Category:People from Bingham, Nottinghamshire
Category:Sportspeople from Nottinghamshire
Category:Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists in boxing
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