John G Pritchett (born 15 February 1943) is an

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and

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light middle/ middle/

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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

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(ABAE) 1959 Junior Class-A title against B. Ford (St Peters ABC), boxing out of Bingham & District ABC, won the 1962

welterweight title, against Harry Dean (Oxford YMCA), boxing out of Bingham & District ABC and won the 1963

welterweight title, against

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(West Ham ABC), boxing out of Bingham & District ABC. He represented

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and won the

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at welterweight in the Boxing at the

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, Western Australia, losing to Wallace Coe of

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. As a professional he won the

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(BBBofC) British middleweight title, and British Commonwealth middleweight title, and was a challenger for the

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(EBU) middleweight title against Juan Carlos Durán

his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e.

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to , i.e.

Boxing manager

Pritchett managed; Dave Needham, Howard Hayes

Johnny Cheshire

and Dave Symonds.

References

External links

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Image - Johnny Pritchett
1945 births Living people Boxers at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Boxers from Nottingham Boxing managers Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England English male boxers Light-heavyweight boxers Light-middleweight boxers Middleweight boxers People from Bingham, Nottinghamshire Sportspeople from Nottinghamshire Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games {{England-boxing-bio-stub