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Albert Finch ()

Active: 1937-1958

Weight classes fought in:

Recorded fights: 104 contests (won: 74 lost: 21 drew: 8 other: 1)

Fight Record

1937

Apr 27 George Goodyer (Croydon) WPTS(4) Acacia Hall, Croydon Source: 05/05/1937 page 13

1945

Aug 14 Eddie Starrs (Lochgelly) DRAW(6) Queensberry Club, Source: Boxing News 22/08/1945 pages 14 and 15 Sep 11 Gordon Griffiths (Taunton) WPTS(6) Queensberry Club, Soho Source: Boxing News 19/09/1945 pages 13 and 14 Oct 9 Ted Barter (Kingston) WPTS(6) Caledonian Road Baths, Source: Boxing News 17/10/1945 page 13 Finch 11st 6lbs Barter 11st 8lbs Oct 20 Jim Hockley (Covent Garden) WPTS(6) Coronation Hall Baths, Kingston Source: Boxing News 24/10/1945 page 14 Finch 11st 6lbs Hockley 11st 6lbs 8ozs Nov 6 Cyril Johnson () WKO2(6) Queensberry Club, Soho Source: Boxing News 14/11/1945 pages 13 and 14 Nov 13 Jack Lewis (Bournemouth) WPTS(8) Caledonian Road Baths, Islington Source: Boxing News 21/11/1945 page 14 Lewis was Western Area Champion 1937-38. Finch 11st 8lbs Lewis 12st 2lbs 8ozs Dec 3 Jack Lewis (Bournemouth) WPTS(6) Baths, Plumstead Source: Boxing News 12/12/1945 page 14 Promoter: Bert Fraser Dec 18 Jim Laverick (Tyne Dock) WPTS(8) Queensberry Club, Soho Source: Boxing News 26/12/1945 pages 15 and 16 Laverick boxed for the Northern Area Title 1943. Finch 11st 5lbs 8ozs Laverick 11st 7lbs 4ozs

1946

Jan 7 Jim Hockley (Covent Garden) WPTS(8) Caledonian Road Baths, Islington Source: Boxing News 16/01/1946 page 12 Jan 16 Billy Cottrell (Bermondsey) WRTD5 Baths, Source: Boxing News 23/01/1946 page 14 Jan 24 Paddy Roche (Ireland) WPTS(8) Assembly Rooms, Tunbridge Wells Source: Boxing News 30/01/1946 page 15 Jan 25 Billy Cottrell (Bermondsey) WPTS(8) Manor Place Baths, Source: Boxing News 30/01/1946 page 16 Finch 11st 7lbs Cottrill 11st 8lbs Mar 19 Frank Hayes (Kildare) WPTS(8) Baths, Beckenham Source: Boxing News 27/03/1946 page 14 Hayes boxed for the Northern Ireland Light-Heavyweight Title 1944. Mar 25 Harry Watson (Aldgate) LRTD5 Trafalgar Road Baths, Source: Boxing News 03/04/1946 pages 13 and 14 Finch 11st 6lbs Watson 11st 8lbs cut eye May 30 Johnny Blake (Chelsea) WPTS(8) Agricultural Hall, Maidstone Source: Boxing News 05/06/1946 pages 15 and 16 Jun 25 Jimmy Stewart (Edinburgh) WPTS(8) Brighton Source: Boxing News 03/07/1946 page 14 Stewart boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator 1940. Jul 9 Jim Hockley (Covent Garden) WPTS(8) Pound Lane Drill Hall, Source: Boxing News 17/07/1946 page 15 Sep 17 Vince Hawkins (Eastleigh) LPTS(8) Arena, Source: Boxing News 25/09/1946 pages 12 and 13 Hawkins was British Middleweight Champion 1946-48. Match made at 11st 8lbs Oct 9 Harry Groves (Battersea) WPTS(10) Grand Theatre, Source: Boxing News 16/10/1946 pages 13 and 14 Finch 11st 5lbs Groves 11st 4lbs Promoter: Nat Tennens Oct 14 Paddy Roche (Ireland) WRSF6(8) Baths, Beckenham Source: Boxing News 23/10/1946 page 14 Finch 11st 2lbs Roche 11st 8lbs Oct 23 Mark Hart (Croydon) LPTS(12) Grand Theatre, Clapham Source: Boxing News 30/10/1946 page 10 (Southern Area Middleweight Title Eliminator) Hart boxed for the British Light-Heavyweight Title 1950 and was South Eastern Area Middleweight Champion 1947-48 and South East Area Light-Heavyweight Champion 1949. Finch 11st 0lbs 12ozs Hart 11st 4lbs 12ozs Nov 19 Alby Hollister (Islington) WPTS(8) Seymour Hall Baths, Source: Boxing News 13/11/1946 page 15 Finch 11st 5lbs Hollister 11st 7lbs 4ozs Nov 28 Frank Hayes (Kildare) WPTS(8) Olympia, Ramsgate Source: Boxing News 04/12/1946 page 14 Finch 11st 4lbs 8ozs Hayes 11st 8lbs 12ozs Dec 3 Paddy Roche (Ireland) WPTS(8) Winter Gardens, Margate Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) Dec 17 Tommy Braddock (Shrewsbury) WPTS(8) Baths, Beckenham Source: Boxing News 24/12/1946 page 20 Finch 11st 7lbs Braddock 10st 12lbs

1947

Jan 21 Ginger Sadd () WPTS(8) Seymour Hall Baths, Marylebone Source: Boxing News 29/01/1947 page 11 Sadd boxed for the British Middleweight Title 1939 and was Eastern Counties Welterweight Champion 1935-36 and Eastern Area Middleweight Champion 1937 and 1948-49. Feb 11 Bert Hyland (Ireland) WRTD6 Seymour Hall Baths, Marylebone Source: Boxing News 05/03/1947 page 6 Finch 11st 6lbs 4ozs Hyland 11st 11lbs Mar 11 Jimmy Ingle (Dublin) WPTS(8) Seymour Hall Baths, Marylebone Source: Boxing News 19/03/1947 page 12 Finch 11st 6lbs Ingle 11st 8lbs Apr 16 Mark Hart (Croydon) LPTS(12) Manor Place Baths, Walworth Source: Boxing News 23/04/1947 page 12 (Southern Area Middleweight Title) Finch 11st 2lbs Hart 11st 4lbs 8ozs Apr 28 Freddie Price (Dublin) WPTS(8) Green Pond Road FC, Source: Boxing News 07/05/1947 page 13 Finch 11st 7lbs 8ozs Price 11st 3lbs Jul 1 Jack Johnson (British Guiana) NC4 Olympia, Kensington Source: Boxing News 09/07/1947 page 12 Johnson 11st 0lbs 4ozs Nov 28 Al Marson (Stepney) WPTS(8) Baths, Plumstead Source: Boxing News 03/12/1947 page 16 Marson was South Eastern Area Light-Heavyweight Champion 1948-49. Finch 11st 8lbs 8ozs Marson 12st 7lbs 8ozs Dec 10 Geoff Heath (Worcester) WPTS(8) Civic Hall, Croydon Source: Boxing News 24/12/1947 page 14 Finch 11st 5lbs 12ozs Heath 11st 6lbs 8ozs Dec 15 Pat Mulcahy (Cork) WRSF6(8) High Road Baths, Source: Boxing News 24/12/1947 page 16 Finch 11st 7lbs Mulcahey 11st 6lbs

1948

Apr 26 (Leamington) WPTS(8) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing News 05/05/1948 pages 11 and 12 Turpin was British and British Empire and European and World Champion from Middleweight to Light-Heavyweight between 1950 and 1958. Finch 11st 4lbs 12ozs Turpin 11st 4lbs 4ozs Jun 8 Jock Taylor (Sidcup) WRSF7(8) Football Ground, Sydenham Source: Boxing News 16/06/1948 pages 13 and 14 Taylor boxed for the South East Area Light-Heavyweight Title 1948. Finch 11st 6lbs 12ozs Taylor 11st 3lbs 8ozs Jun 11 George Dilkes (South Elmsall) WPTS(8) Belle Vue, Manchester Source: Boxing News 16/06/1948 page 16 Dilkes was North Central Area Middleweight Champion 1948-49. Finch 11st 5lbs 2ozs Dilkes 11st 3lbs 8ozs Aug 10 Bert Sanders (Kilburn) WPTS(10) Selhurst Park Football Ground, Sydenham Source: Boxing News 18/08/1948 pages 14 and 15 (South Eastern Area Middleweight Title Final Eliminator) Finch 11st 3lbs 6ozs Sanders 11st 3lbs 10ozs Attendance: 10000 Oct 11 Mark Hart (Croydon) WPTS(12) Croydon Source: Boxing News 13/10/1948 page 16 (South Eastern Area Middleweight Title) Finch 11st 5lbs 6ozs Hart 11st 5lbs 14ozs Dec 13 Duggie Myers (Doncaster) WRSF6(8) Manor Place Baths, Walworth Source: Boxing News 29/12/1948 pages 11 and 12 Finch 11st 5lbs 12ozs Myers 11st 4lbs 12ozs 1949

Jan 24 Luc van Dam (Holland) LPTS(10) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing News 26/01/1949 page 15 Finch 11st 7lbs van Dam 11st 6lbs 12ozs Mar 10 Des Jones (Tredegar) WPTS(8) Caledonian Road Baths, Islington Source: Boxing News 23/03/1949 page 12 Jones boxed for the Welsh Middleweight Title 1949. Finch 10st 9lbs 4ozs Jones 11st 8lbs Apr 21 Bert Hyland (Ireland) WPTS(8) Manor Place Baths, Walworth Source: Boxing News 04/05/1949 pages 13 and 13 Finch 11st 8lbs Hyland 11st 7lbs 12ozs May 24 Bob Cleaver (Borough) WKO7(8) Selhurst Park Football Ground, Sydenham Source: Boxing News 01/06/1949 page 13 Finch 11st 8lbs Cleaver 11st 4lbs 8ozs Promoter: Bill Goodwin & Alf Hart Jun 20 (Leamington) LPTS(15) City Football Ground, Source: Boxing News 22/06/1949 page 15 (British and Empire Middleweight Title) Turpin was British Middleweight Champion 1948-50 and British Empire Middleweight Champion 1948-49. Finch 11st 2lbs 6ozs Turpin 11st 5lbs Aug 18 Bert Sanders (Kilburn) WPTS(8) Watling Street Football Ground, Dartford Source: Boxing News 31/08/1949 page 12 Match made at 11st 8lbs Promoter: George McKenzie Oct 4 George Ross (Canada) WPTS(10) Empress Stadium, Earls' Court Source: Boxing News 12/10/1949 page 12 Finch 11st 7lbs Ross 11st 4lbs Oct 24 Bert Hyland (Ireland) LPTS(8) High Road Baths, Leyton Source: Boxing News 02/11/1949 page 10 Finch 11st 8lbs 8ozs Hyland 11st 8lbs Nov 14 Albert Heyen (Belgium) WPTS(10) Davis Theatre, Croydon Source: Boxing News 23/11/1949 page 10 Finch 11st 9lbs 12ozs Heyen 11st 4lbs 10ozs Dec 5 Jimmy Ingle (Dublin) WKO4 Town Hall, Source: Boxing News 14/12/1949 page 11 Finch 11st 9lbs 12ozs Ingle 11st 4lbs

1950

Feb 7 Baby Day (USA) LPTS(10) Empress Stadium, Earls' Court Source: Boxing News 15/02/1950 page 5 Feb 21 Allan Cooke (Warsop) DRAW(8) Romford Road Baths, Source: Boxing News 01/03/1950 page 13 Cooke was North Midlands Area Light-Heavyweight Champion 1950. Finch 11st 10lbs Cooke 12st 9lbs Mar 13 Mel Brown (USA) DRAW(10) Ice Rink, Source: Boxing News 22/03/1950 page 5 Match made at 11st 12lbs Finch 11st 11lbs Brown 11st 12lbs Promoter: Stan Baker Mar 29 Joe Beckett (Hempnall) WPTS(10) Corn Hall, Norwich Source: Boxing News 12/04/1950 page 10 Beckett was Eastern Area Middleweight Champion 1949. Finch 11st 9lbs Beckett 11st 5lbs Apr 24 Dick Turpin (Leamington) WPTS(15) Ice Stadium, Nottingham Source: Boxing News 03/05/1950 page 10 (British Middleweight Title) Finch 11st 5lbs 9ozs Turpin 11st 1lbs 6ozs Promoter: Reg King Jun 12 Juan Torrecillas (Spain) WRTD3(10) Selhurst Park Football Ground, Sydenham Source: Boxing News 21/06/1950 page 5 Match made at 12st 4lbs Finch 12st 2lbs Torrecillas 11st 13lbs Promoter: Alf Hart & Bill Goodwin Jun 26 Eli Elandon (Belgian Congo) WPTS(10) Franklin's Gardens, Northampton Source: Boxing News 05/07/1950 page 10 Finch 12st 0lbs Elandon 12st 0lbs Promoter: Les Ham Jul 3 Dick Turpin (Leamington) WRTD8(10) Ice Stadium, Nottingham Source: Boxing News 12/07/1950 page 11 Match made at 11st 12lbs cut eye Jul 21 Cyril Delannoit (Belgium) DRAW(10) Ostend Belgium Source: Boxing News Sep 27 Albert Heyen (Belgium) WPTS(10) Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd Source: Boxing News 04/10/1950 page 12 Match made at 11st 12 lbs Promoter: Albert Davies Attendance: 20000 Oct 17 Randolph Turpin (Leamington) LKO5(15) Arena, Harringay Source: Boxing News 08/11/1950 page 12 (British Middleweight Title) Finch 11st 5lbs 10ozs Turpin 11st 4lbs 1951

Jan 22 Reg Spring (Southall) WPTS(8) High Road Baths, Leyton Source: Boxing News 31/01/1951 page 10 Spring was South Eastern Area Light-Heavyweight Champion 1949. Finch 12st 7lbs Spring 12st 7lbs 8ozs Feb 12 Jackie Kid Harris (USA) WPTS(8) High Road Baths, Leyton Source: Boxing News 21/02/1951 page 11 Finch 12st 5lbs 12ozs Harris 12st 5lbs 8ozs Feb 26 Don Mogard (Canada) WPTS(8) High Road Baths, Leyton Source: Boxing News 07/03/1951 page 7 Finch 12st 9lbs Mogard 13st 7lbs 8ozs Mar 19 Johnny McGowan (Wakefield) WRTD9(10) Granby Halls, Source: Boxing News 28/03/1951 pages 5 and 14 McGowan was Central Area Light-Heavyweight Champion 1951. Finch 12st 8lbs 12ozs McGowan 12st 5lbs 1ozs Apr 30 Paddy Slavin () WPTS(10) Empress Stadium, Earls' Court Source: Boxing News 09/05/1951 pages 7 and 11 Slavin was Northern Ireland Area Heavyweight Champion 1948. Finch 12st 7lbs 12ozs Slavin 12st 13lbs 4ozs May 16 Dave Williams (Barry) WRSF5 New Sophia Gardens, Source: Boxing News 23/05/1951 page 13 Williams was Welsh Area Light-Heavyweight Champion 1953. Finch 12st 6lbs 4ozs Williams 12st 4lbs Promoter: Albert Davies May 29 Billy Wood (South Africa) WRTD5(10) Selhurst Park Football Ground, Sydenham Source: Boxing News 06/06/1951 page 11 Finch 12st 6lbs 8ozs Wood 12st 7lbs 8ozs Promoter: Ron Johnson damaged ear Oct 16 (Battersea) LKO7(15) Arena, Harringay Source: Boxing News 24/10/1951 pages 3 and 4 (British and European Light-Heavyweight Title) Cockell was British Light-Heavyweight Champion 1950-52 and European Light-Heavyweight Champion 1951-52 and British and British Empire Heavyweight Champion 1953-56. Finch 12st 4lbs 12ozs Cockell 12st 6lbs 12ozs

1952

Jan 21 Gene Fowler (Canada) WRSF5(8) High Road Baths, Leyton Source: Boxing News 30/01/1952 page 7 Finch 12st 8lbs 4ozs Fowler 12st 2lbs 8ozs Feb 13 Michel Lapourielle (France) WRSF8(8) Sports Stadium, Brighton Source: Boxing News 20/02/1952 page 7 Finch 12st 7lbs 8ozs Lapourielle 12st 7lbs 4ozs Feb 23 Garnett Denny (Belfast) WPTS(10) King's Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 05/03/1952 pages 12 and 13 Denny boxed for the Northern Ireland Light-Heavyweight Title 1952. Finch 12st 6lbs 12ozs Denny 12st 5lbs Oct 14 Brian Anders (Brighton) WPTS(8) Ice Rink, Streatham Source: Boxing News 22/10/1952 page 11 Anders boxed for the Southern Area Middleweight Title 1954. Finch 12st 5lbs Anders 12st 0lbs Oct 28 George Walker (Stepney) LKO6(8) Empress Stadium, Earls' Court Source: Boxing News 05/11/1952 pages 7 and 11 Walker boxed for the British Light-Heavyweight Title 1953 and was Southern Area Light-Heavyweight Champion 1952-54. Finch 12st 5lbs Walker 12st 4lbs 12ozs Dec 2 George Walker (Stepney) LDSQ5(12) Empress Stadium, Earls' Court Source: Boxing News 10/12/1952 page 4 (Southern Area Light-Heavyweight Title) Finch 12st 5lbs 8ozs Walker 12st 4lbs 4ozs

1953

Feb 16 Johnny Barton (Lancaster) WPTS(8) High Road Baths, Leyton Source: Boxing News 25/02/1953 page 13 Finch 12st 8lbs 8ozs Barton 12st 8lbs 8ozs Mar 20 (Germany) LRTD8(10) Germany Source: Boxing News Apr 25 Wim Snoek (Holland) WPTS(10) St Nazaire France Source: Boxing News May 18 Wim Snoek (Holland) LPTS(10) Empress Stadium, Earls' Court Source: Boxing News 27/05/1953 pages 4 and 14 Finch 12st 8lbs Snoek 12st 2lbs Snoek sub for Alex Buxton(Watford) Sep 8 Dennis Powell (Four Crosses) LPTS(10) Football Ground, Oswestry Source: Boxing News 16/09/1953 page 4 Powell was British Light-Heavyweight Champion 1953. Attendance: 5000 Oct 6 Jimmy Davis (Bethnal Green) WPTS(8) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing News 14/10/1953 pages 4 and 15 Finch 12st 8lbs 4ozs Davis 12st 8lbs 4ozs Oct 13 Arthur Howard (Islington) DRAW(8) Empress Stadium, Earls' Court Source: Boxing News 21/10/1953 page 5 Howard boxed for the British Light-Heavyweight Title 1957 and 1960 and was Southern Area Light-Heavyweight Champion 1959. Finch 12st 7lbs 4ozs Howard 12st 2lbs 10ozs Oct 20 Dave Williams (Barry) WRSF7(8) Ice Rink, Streatham Source: Boxing News 28/10/1953 page 5 Finch 12st 4lbs Williams 12st 7lbs 8ozs cut eye Nov 3 Billy Dean (Greenwich) WRSF5(8) Arena, Harringay Source: Boxing News 11/11/1953 pages 4 and 5 Finch 12st 7lbs 4ozs Dean 12st 6lbs 4ozs

1954

Feb 23 (Birkenhead) WPTS(8) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing News 26/02/1954 page 5 Finch 12st 10lbs 8ozs Bygraves 13st 7lbs Mar 23 Arthur Howard (Islington) WRSF8(12) Empress Stadium, Earls' Court Source: Boxing News 26/03/1954 pages 4 and 5 (British Light-Heavyweight Title Final Eliminator) May 18 Marcel Limage (Belgium) WRSF9(10) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing News 21/05/1954 pages 12 and 13 Finch 12st 8lbs 8ozs Limage 12st 6lbs 12ozs Promoter: Stan Baker Nov 9 Alex Buxton (Watford) LKO8(15) Embassy Sportsdrome, Birmingham Source: Boxing News 12/11/1954 pages 3 and 5 (British Light-Heavyweight Title) Buxton was British Light-Heavyweight Champion 1953-55. Finch 12st 4lbs 12ozs Buxton 11st 7lbs 15ozs

1955

Oct 4 Fred Powell (Walworth) DRAW(8) Ice Rink, Streatham Source: Boxing News 07/10/1955 page 5 Finch 12st 10lbs 8ozs Powell 13st 12lbs 4ozs Referee: Mick Fox Oct 30 Charles Colin (France) WPTS(10) St Nazaire France Source: Boxing News

1956

Jan 22 Uwe Janssen (Germany) DRAW(8) Germany Source: Boxing News Mar 13 Ron Barton (West Ham) LRTD8(15) Arena, Harringay Source: Boxing News 23/03/1956 pages 4, 05 and 7 (British Light-Heavyweight Title) Barton was British Light-Heavyweight Champion 1956. Finch 12st 6lbs Barton 12st 4lbs 8ozs Sep 8 Andre Cottyn WRSF10(10) Ostend Belgium Source: Boxing News Dec 28 Serge Leveque (France) WPTS(8) Gothenberg Sweden Source: Boxing News

1957

Feb 3 Eric Schoeppner (Germany) LPTS(6) Westfalenhalle, Dortmund Germany Source: Boxing News 08/02/1957 page 4 Mar 26 Terence Murphy (Canning Town) WPTS(12) Ice Rink, Streatham Source: Boxing News 29/03/1957 page 11 (Southern Area Light-Heavyweight Title) Murphy boxed a British Light-Heavyweight Title Eliminator 1956. Finch 12st 6lbs 12ozs Murphy 12st 6lbs 8ozs May 19 Jim Cooper (Bellingham) WDSQ7 Sweden Source: Boxing News 24/05/1957 page 11 Jul 29 Manuel Burgo (North Shields) LKO2(8) Engineers Club, West Hartlepool Source: Boxing News 02/08/1957 page 11 Finch 12st 5lbs Burgo 14st 0lbs 8ozs Aug 21 Willie Armstrong (Port Glasgow) LPTS(8) Ice Rink, Paisley Source: Boxing News 30/08/1957 page 9 Armstrong was Scottish Area Middleweight Champion 1951. Oct 3 Tony Dove (Battersea) WPTS(10) Corn Hall, Norwich Source: Boxing News 11/10/1957 page 12 Match made at 12st 9lbs

1958

Jan 13 Jack Whittaker () WPTS(8) Town Hall, Cheltenham Source: Boxing News 17/01/1958 page 12 Whittaker boxed a British Light-Heavyweight Title Eliminator 1959. Finch 12st 6lbs 4ozs Whittaker 12st 2lbs 8ozs Feb 3 Ron Redrup (West Ham) DRAW(8) High Road Baths, Leyton Source: Boxing News 07/02/1958 page 5 Redrup boxed for the British Light-Heavyweight Title 1963. Match made at 12st 9lbs Mar 17 Noel Trigg (Newport) LRSF3(8) Town Hall, Cheltenham Source: Boxing News 21/03/1958 page 12 Trigg was Welsh Area Light-Heavyweight Champion 1956-57. Finch 12st 4lbs 8ozs Trigg 12st 6lbs 12ozs © This record was researched and compiled by Miles Templeton and Richard Ireland. It may be published elsewhere provided full acknowledgement and a link to www.boxinghistory.org.uk are included

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