William Fisher (boxer)
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Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||
Born | Craigneuk, Wishaw, Scotland | 14 March 1940||||||||||
Died | 6 October 2018 Wishaw, Scotland | (aged 78)||||||||||
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Sport | boxing | ||||||||||
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William Fisher (14 March 1940 – 6 October 2018) was a Scottish boxer. He was born in Craigneuk and boxed under the names Willie Fisher and Billy Fisher.
Boxing career[]
Amateur career[]
Fisher won the 1960 Amateur Boxing Association British light-middleweight title, when boxing out of the Craigneuk ABC.[1][2] Fisher represented Great Britain at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games. He won a bronze medal at light middleweight.
Pro career[]
Fisher turned pro in 1961 and spent his entire career fighting in Great Britain. He retired in 1967 with a record of 21-12 with 9 KO.
External links[]
References[]
- ^ "Roll of Honour". England Boxing. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ "New Tipton Slasher in Olympic team". Birmingham Daily Post. 3 May 1960. Retrieved 3 January 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Categories:
- 1940 births
- 2018 deaths
- Sportspeople from North Lanarkshire
- Light-middleweight boxers
- Scottish male boxers
- Olympic boxers of Great Britain
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Scottish Olympic medallists
- Scottish Olympic medallist stubs
- British boxing biography stubs
- Scottish sportspeople stubs