Jon Jo Irwin | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | John Irwin 31 May 1969 | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | English | ||||||||||||||
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| Weight(s) | feather/super featherweight | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||||
| Boxing record | |||||||||||||||
| 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.[1][2]
He also won the prestigious 1991 ABA featherweight championship, against Mark Bowers (Pinewood Starr ABC (Crowthorne),[3] boxing out of Tom Hill ABC (Doncaster).[4]
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.[5]
References
- ↑ "1990 Athletes". Team England.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ↑ "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
