List of New Zealand featherweight boxing champions

This list of New Zealand featherweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the New Zealand professional featherweight championship.

The title has been administered by the New Zealand Boxing Association since 1907.

A champion will often voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship, such as the world. Where the date on which a champion relinquished the title is unclear.

List of New Zealand featherweight boxing champions

Name Reign Duration of reign Title Defences Note
Alf Gault 1 15 July 1907 New Zealand Boxing Association 0
Torpedo Billy Murphy[1] 1 8 August 1907 New Zealand Boxing Association 0
James Godfrey[2] 1 25 November 1907 – 22 December 1908 New Zealand Boxing Association 1
Billy Elliott[3] 1 22 December 1908 New Zealand Boxing Association 0 Elliott Vacated his title.
Jimmy Hagerty[4] 1 24 April 1912 – 1914 New Zealand Boxing Association 1 Hagerty relinquished title.
Gus Venn 1 29 July 1914 – 1915 New Zealand Boxing Association 0 Venn relinquished title.
Lin Robinson 1 26 June 1919 – 3 June 1922 New Zealand Boxing Association 5
Duke Maddox 1 3 June 1922 – 11 December 1922 New Zealand Boxing Association 2
Harry Gunn 1 11 December 1922 – 31 March 1923 New Zealand Boxing Association 1
Mike Flynn 1 31 March 1923 – 1924 New Zealand Boxing Association 1 Flynn relinquished title.
George Curran 1 17 May 1924 – 6 October 1924 New Zealand Boxing Association 2
Bert Brown 1 6 October 1924 – 4 April 1925 New Zealand Boxing Association 1
Lin Robinson 2 4 April 1925 – 5 May 1927 New Zealand Boxing Association 3 Bert Brown forfeited the title to Robinson due to Brown being overweight. The bout still went ahead with Brown winning by Points.
Duke Maddox 2 5 May 1927 – 22 August 1927 New Zealand Boxing Association 1
Johnnie Leckie 1 22 August 1927 – 29 November 1930 New Zealand Boxing Association 4
Tommy Donovan 1 29 November 1930 – 31 October 1931 New Zealand Boxing Association 1
Johnnie Leckie 2 31 October 1931 – 2 October 1933 New Zealand Boxing Association 1
Percy Hawes 1 2 October 1933 – 16 December 1933 New Zealand Boxing Association 2
Clarrie Rayner 1 16 December 1933 – 10 February 1936 New Zealand Boxing Association 6
Billy Aitken 1 10 February 1936 – 26 May 1936 New Zealand Boxing Association 0 Aitken stripped of title.
Lex Greaney 1 8 June 1939 – 14 October 1944 New Zealand Boxing Association 1
Clarrie Rayner 2 14 October 1944 – 12 March 1946 New Zealand Boxing Association 2
Tom Baty 1 12 March 1946 – 1947 New Zealand Boxing Association 0 Batty retired in 1947, vacating the title.
Johnny Hanks 1 14 June 1954 – 15 April 1957 New Zealand Boxing Association 1
Billy Leckie 1 15 April 1957 – 7 September 1961 New Zealand Boxing Association 2
Jimmy Cassidy 1 7 September 1961 New Zealand Boxing Association 0
Toro George 1 8 June 1966 New Zealand Boxing Association 1 George was award the title without beating anyone for the title. George successfully defended the title on 15 September 1966.
Nick Fletcher 1 26 November 1992 New Zealand Boxing Association 0

List of New Zealand super featherweight boxing champions

Name Reign Duration of reign Title Defences Note
Richard Pittman 1 17 July 1992 New Zealand Boxing Association 0

See also

References

  1. "After Two and a half Minutes". Taranaki Herald.
  2. "Professional Featherweight Championship". Evening Post.
  3. "Two Clever Boxers". Evening Post.
  4. "rage night carnival". Timaru Herald.
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