Blair Richardson (29 January 1941 – 6 March 1971) was a

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of the 1950s and 1960s who won the Maritime Middleweight Title, Canada middleweight title, and Commonwealth middleweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e.

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to , i.e.

, he was managed by Jimmy Nemis, Johnny Buckley, Johnny Buckley Jr., and trained by

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, Charlie Pappas, and Johnny Sullo. Richardson was an alumnus of

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, Boston, Massachusetts where he gained bachelor and master of science degrees in

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(minors in

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and

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), after his retirement from boxing, he taught speech and the finer points of boxing at

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, Boston, Massachusetts for two years before joining the faculty at

in 1970, he was also a member of the

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, and several speech organizations. He died at New England Deaconess Hospital in

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, Massachusetts following a surgery for a

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. Richardson was inducted into the

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in 1980.

Genealogical information

Richardson was the husband of Beverly (

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MacDowell), who was expecting their first child, Lisa Richardson, at the time of his death.

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1941 births 1971 deaths Emerson College alumni Emerson College faculty Light-heavyweight boxers Light-middleweight boxers Middleweight boxers Canadian male boxers Place of birth missing Deaths from brain cancer in the United States Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts 20th-century Canadian sportsmen {{Canada-boxing-bio-stub