Evan Armstrong (15 February 1943 – 8 July 2017) was a Scottish

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bantam/

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super featherweight Super featherweight, also known as junior lightweight, is a weight division in professional boxing, contested between and . The super featherweight division was established by the New York Walker Law in 1920, although first founded by the New ...

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of the 1960s and 1970s, who won the

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(BBBofC) Scottish Area bantamweight title, BBBofC Scottish Area featherweight title, BBBofC British featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British bantamweight title against

Alan Rudkin Alan Rudkin MBE (18 November 1941 – 22 September 2010) was a British national, Commonwealth, and European bantamweight boxing champion (1965–1970). He was born in St Asaph (Wales), as his pregnant mother was evacuated from Liverpool during ...

, and

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(EBU) featherweight title against

José Legrá José Adolfo Legrá Utría (born 19 April 1943) is a retired professional featherweight boxer. He is a former two time WBC World Featherweight Champion. Professional career In June 1960, Legrá turned professional in Cuba winning his first fi ...

, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e.

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to , i.e.

. Armstrong had

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later in life and died at the age of 74 in late 2017.

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1943 births 2017 deaths Bantamweight boxers Featherweight boxers Sportspeople from Ayr Scottish male boxers Super-featherweight boxers 20th-century Scottish sportsmen {{Scotland-boxing-bio-stub