Jon Jo Irwin
{{short description|English boxer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2015}}
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|realname=John Irwin
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|weight=feather/super featherweight
|height={{height|ft=5|in=8}}
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|nationality=English
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1969|05|31|df=y}}
|birth_place=Denaby, Doncaster, England
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|style=Orthodox
|total=30
|wins=19 (KO 5)
|losses=5 (KO 3)
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{{MedalSport | Boxing}}
{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}
{{MedalGold| 1990 Auckland | featherweight}}
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John Irwin (born 31 May 1969, Doncaster), known as Jon Jo Irwin, is a retired English amateur featherweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1990s.
Boxing career
=Amateur=
As an amateur he represented England and won a gold medal in the -57 kg featherweight division, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/auckland-1990/athletes|title=1990 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/48371|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=26 August 2019|archive-date=21 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821184310/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/48371|url-status=dead}}
He also won the prestigious 1991 ABA featherweight championship, against Mark Bowers[http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=20741&cat=boxer] (Pinewood Starr ABC (Crowthorne),{{cite web|url=http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/19901999/1991/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131023235707/http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/19901999/1991/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 October 2013 |title=104th ABAE National Championship |publisher=abae.co.uk |date=31 December 2012 |accessdate=1 January 2013 }} boxing out of Tom Hill ABC (Doncaster).{{cite web|url=https://www.englandboxing.org/roll-of-honour/gender/male-championships/|title=Roll of Honour|publisher=England Boxing}}
=Professional=
As a professional won the Irish featherweight title, World Boxing Board (WBB) super featherweight title, World Boxing Organization (WBO) Inter-Continental featherweight title, British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British featherweight title against Paul Ingle, and European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight title against Steve Robinson, his professional fighting weight varied from {{convert|124+3/4|lb|kg stlb||abbr=on}}, i.e. featherweight to {{convert|129|lb|kg stlb||abbr=on}}, i.e. super featherweight.{{cite web|url=http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=8851&cat=boxer|title=Statistics at boxrec.com|publisher=boxrec.com|date=31 December 2013|accessdate=1 January 2013}}
References
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External links
- {{Boxrec|id=8851}}
- [http://static.boxrec.com/d/dd/JJIrwin.jpg Image - Jon Jo Irwin]
- [http://www.southyorkshiretimes.co.uk/news/local/top-boxer-jon-jo-helps-troubled-pupils-make-a-fist-of-schooldays-1-851454 Article - Top boxer Jon Jo helps troubled pupils make a fist of schooldays]
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Category:Boxers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
Category:Boxers from Doncaster
Category:Sportspeople from Doncaster
Category:Super-featherweight boxers
Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
Category:Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
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