| Jon Jo Irwin | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | John Irwin (1969-05-31) 31 May 1969 (age 55) Denaby, Doncaster, England | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | English | ||||||||||||||
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| Weight(s) | feather/super featherweight | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 30 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins | 19 (KO 5) | ||||||||||||||
| Losses | 5 (KO 3) | ||||||||||||||
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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.
He also won the prestigious 1991 ABA featherweight championship, against Mark Bowers (Pinewood Starr ABC (Crowthorne), boxing out of Tom Hill ABC (Doncaster).
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 124+3⁄4 lb (56.6 kg; 8 st 12.8 lb), i.e. featherweight to 129 lb (59 kg; 9 st 3 lb), i.e. super featherweight.
References
- "1990 Athletes". Team England.
- "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 21 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- "104th ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- "Roll of Honour". England Boxing.
- "Statistics at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
External links
- Boxing record for Jon Jo Irwin from BoxRec (registration required)
- Image - Jon Jo Irwin
- Article - Top boxer Jon Jo helps troubled pupils make a fist of schooldays
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- English male boxers
- Featherweight boxers
- Living people
- Boxers from Doncaster
- Sportspeople from Doncaster
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- Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
- Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
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