Mairtin Thornton

Mairtin Thornton
Statistics
Weight(s)	Heavyweight
Nationality	Irish
Born	Spiddal, County Galway, Ireland
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	22
Wins	14
Wins by KO	50%
Losses	8

Mairtin Thornton (died 1984) was an Irish heavyweight boxer in the 1940s. He was nicknamed the "Connemara Crusher".

Thornton was a native of Spiddal, Connemara, County Galway. He became the Irish Heavyweight Boxing champion in 1943. He fought Bruce Woodcock for the British Commonwealth Heavyweight title in 1945.^[1]

He boxed from 10 January 1938 until 23 April 1949. He won 14 bouts and lost 8.^[2]

When he retired from boxing he ran a pub in Spiddal, County Galway. He died in 1984.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

External links[]

• Irish Boxers
• Mairtin Thornton interview on YouTube^{[dead link]}