Bunty Doran (Belfast)
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© www.boxinghistory.org.uk - all rights reserved This page has been brought to you by www.boxinghistory.org.uk Click on the image above to visit our site Bunty Doran (Belfast) Active: 1938-1953 Weight classes fought in: Recorded fights: 96 contests (won: 74 lost: 19 drew: 3) Fight Record 1938 Jun 1 Young Row (Belfast) WKO2(4) Chapel Fields Arena, Belfast Source: Boxing 08/06/1938 page 13 Jun 18 George Maynes (Belfast) WRTD1(4) Chapel Fields Arena, Belfast Source: Boxing 29/06/1938 page 19 Jul 13 Billy Grimmason (Belfast) WPTS(4) Chapel Fields Arena, Belfast Source: Boxing Weekly Record 20/07/1938 page 18 Aug 10 Ted Campbell (Belfast) WRSF1(4) Chapel Fields Arena, Belfast Source: Boxing Weekly Record 17/08/1938 page 16 Aug 20 Sam Ramsey (Belfast) WRSF6(8) Belfast Source: Boxing Weekly Record 31/08/1938 page 19 Aug 29 Tommy Wilson (Lisburn) WPTS(8) Belfast Source: Boxing Weekly Record 07/09/1938 page 19 Aug 31 Johnny Cochrane (Belfast) WPTS(8) Belfast Source: Boxing Weekly Record 07/09/1938 page 19 Sep 24 Mick McAloran (Belfast) WRSF7(8) Chapel Fields Arena, Belfast Source: Boxing Weekly Record 05/10/1938 page 8 Oct 5 Jim O'Brien (Belfast) WPTS(8) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing Weekly Record 12/10/1938 page 19 Oct 22 Jim O'Brien (Belfast) WPTS(8) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing Weekly Record 02/11/1938 page 20 Nov 19 Al Bryson (Belfast) WKO5(8) Belfast Source: Boxing Weekly Record 30/11/1938 page 20 Dec 10 John Cosgrove (Belfast) LPTS(8) Belfast Source: Boxing 21/12/1938 page 22 Dec 26 Dick Frame (Belfast) WPTS(8) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing Weekly Record 04/01/1939 page 20 1939 Jan 28 Frank Benson (Belfast) WKO6(8) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing 08/02/1939 page 22 Promoter: Ma Copley Feb 22 Alf Hughes (West Hartlepool) WPTS(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing 01/03/1939 page 20 Doran 8st 1lbs Hughes 7st 10lbs Mar 15 Angel Garcia (Spain) WRSF6(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing 22/03/1939 page 20 Apr 1 Frank Kid Bonser (Nottingham) DRAW(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing 12/04/1939 page 11 Promoter: Ma Copley Apr 15 Jimmy Gill (Nottingham) WRSF7(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing 26/04/1939 page 19 Gill was North Midlands Area Bantamweight Champion 1949. Doran 8st 2lbs 8ozs Gill 8st 0lbs 8ozs Jun 3 Ted Meikle (Belfast) WPTS(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing 14/06/1939 page 18 Jul 5 Bobby Campbell (Glasgow) WRSF7(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing 12/07/1939 pages 16 and 17 Doran 8st 1lbs 8ozs Campbell 8st 7lbs 12ozs Promoter: Ma Copley Jul 22 Jack McKenzie (Belfast) WPTS(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing 02/08/1939 page 16 Aug 2 Joe Kiely (Limerick) WDSQ3(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing 09/08/1939 page 12 Aug 5 Jack McKenzie (Belfast) WRTD6(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing 16/08/1939 page 18 Doran 8st 2lbs McKenzie 7st 10lbs Sep 28 Joe Curran (Liverpool) LPTS(10) Stadium, Liverpool Source: Boxing 04/10/1939 page 10 Curran boxed for the British Flyweight Title 1946. Promoter: Johnny Best Dec 16 Mick Byrne (Dublin) WKO2(10) Belfast Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) 1940 Jan 24 Alf Hughes (West Hartlepool) WPTS(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing 31/01/1940 page 20 Promoter: Ma Copley Feb 24 Billy Clinton (Croy) WKO1 Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Brian Strickland (Boxing Historian) Clinton was Scottish Area Flyweight Champion 1940-41. Apr 27 Jimmy Stewart (Edinburgh) LPTS(10) Belfast Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) Stewart boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator 1940. Aug 17 Tut Whalley (Hanley) WPTS(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Brian Strickland (Boxing Historian) Whalley boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator 1939. Nov 23 Tommy Ensor (Measham) WRTD6 Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 05/12/1940 page 13 Doran 9st 2lbs 1941 Feb 8 Jack Kiley (Swansea) LPTS(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Belfast Telegraph Kiley was Welsh Area Flyweight Champion 1938-39 and 1940. Apr 13 Harry Cullinan (Armagh) WRSF6(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 01/05/1941 page 13 Jul 23 Jeff Smith (Wellingborough) WPTS(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Belfast Telegraph Aug 13 Dixie McCall (Belfast) WRTD5(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 09/10/1941 page 14 Sep 20 Jeff Smith (Wellingborough) WRTD8(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 06/11/1941 page 7 Oct 8 Chick Ferris WRTD8(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 20/11/1941 page 16 1942 Apr 23 Charlie Brown (Belfast) WRTD6(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 13/08/1942 page 6 Brown boxed for the Northern Ireland Featherweight Title 1942. Doran 8st 6lbs 8ozs Brown 8st 11lbs 12ozs damaged eye Jun 15 Billy Doherty (Belfast) WPTS(8) Rialto, Belfast Source: Boxing News 27/08/1942 page 11 Oct 17 Joe Meikle (Belfast) WRTD1(8) Rialto, Belfast Source: Boxing News 18/03/1943 page 6 Meikle boxed for the Northern Ireland Bantamweight Title 1945. cut eye Nov 14 Harry Rogers (Derry) WKO6(15) Rialto, Belfast Source: Boxing News 18/03/1943 page 7 (Northern Ireland Area Flyweight Title) Rogers boxed for the Northern Ireland Flyweight Title 1942. Doran 7st 12lbs Rogers 7st 13lbs 8ozs 1943 Mar 10 Harry Rogers (Derry) WKO3(10) Derry Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) Apr 7 Billy Hazelgrove (Brighton) WRSF6(8) Queensberry Club, Soho Source: Boxing News 15/04/1943 page 12 Apr 19 Billy Hazelgrove (Brighton) WKO3 Brighton Source: Boxing News 29/04/1943 pages 15 and 16 Apr 27 Johnny Summers (Edinburgh) WKO2 Queensberry Club, Soho Source: Boxing News 13/05/1943 page 12 Summers boxed for the Scottish Flyweight Title 1946 and 1947. May 19 Sammy Reynolds (Wolverhampton) LPTS(8) Queensberry Club, Soho Source: Boxing News 27/05/1943 pages 12 and 13 Reynolds boxed a British Bantamweight Title Eliminator 1946. May 24 Jack McKenzie (Belfast) WPTS(8) Big Top, Birmingham Source: Boxing News 27/05/1943 pages 16, 13 Oct 9 Billy Phelan (Dublin) WRSF2 Ulster Stadium, Belfast Source: Belfast Telegraph Dec 18 Joe Boy Collins (Dublin) WKO2 Ulster Stadium, Belfast Source: Belfast Telegraph 1944 Feb 19 Ike Weir (Belfast) WKO3(15) Ulster Stadium, Belfast Source: Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland Area Flyweight Title) Weir boxed for the Northern Ireland Flyweight Title 1944. Mar 18 Con Caffrey (Dublin) WKO5 Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 30/03/1944 pages 11 and 12 Match made at 9st Doran 8st 4lbs 8ozs Oct 17 Hugh Cameron (Glasgow) WPTS(8) Belfast Source: Boxing News 23/11/1944 pages 13, 14 and 15 Cameron boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator 1944 and was Scottish Area Flyweight Champion 1941. 1945 Mar 15 Jimmy Warnock (Belfast) WRSF8(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 28/03/1945 page 16 Warnock boxed a British Flyweight Title Eliminator 1937. Match made at 8st 2lbs May 14 Norman Lewis (Nantymoel) WRTD6(10) Civic Hall, Wolverhampton Source: Boxing News 23/05/1945 page 14 Lewis boxed for the British Bantamweight Title 1947 and was Welsh Area Flyweight Champion 1949 and Welsh Area Bantamweight Champion 1944-49. May 29 Alec Murphy (Glasgow) WKO2(8) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing News 06/06/1945 pages 13 and 14 Jun 21 Mickey Jones (Southend) WRTD7(10) Stadium, Liverpool Source: Boxing News 27/06/1945 page 14 Doran 8st 3lbs 8ozs Jones 8st 3lbs 8ozs Referee: Jack Curphey Jul 10 Sammy Reynolds (Wolverhampton) DRAW(10) Willenhall Source: Boxing News 18/07/1945 pages 13 and 14 Doran 8st 4lbs Reynolds 8st 3lbs 8ozs Aug 3 Hugh Cameron (Glasgow) WPTS(10) Douglas Park, Hamilton Source: Boxing News 15/08/1945 page 12 Sep 18 Ronnie Bishop (Markham) WRSF4(8) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 26/09/1945 page 15 Bishop was Welsh Area Flyweight Champion 1939-40. Doran 8st 2lbs 8ozs Sep 24 Jimmy Gill (Nottingham) WPTS(8) De Montfort Hall, Leicester Source: Boxing News 03/10/1945 pages 13 and 14 Nov 6 Rinty Monaghan (Belfast) LKO4(15) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 14/11/1945 page 15 (Northern Ireland Area Flyweight Title) Monaghan was British and British Empire and European Flyweight Champion 1948-50 and World Flyweight Champion 1947-50. Doran 7st 13lbs 8ozs Monaghan 7st 12lbs Dec 18 Tommy Burney (Liverpool) WRSF3(8) Queensberry Club, Soho Source: Boxing News 26/12/1945 pages 15 and 16 Doran 8st 2lbs 4ozs Burney 7st 11lbs 8ozs Dec 26 Jimmy Gill (Nottingham) WPTS(10) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 09/01/1946 page 15 Doran 8st 3lbs Gill 8st 1lbs 8ozs 1946 Mar 8 Jackie Paterson (Glasgow) WPTS(10) Dublin Source: Boxing News 13/03/1946 page 15 Paterson was British and British Empire and European and World Champion from and Flyweight to Bantamweight between 1939 and 1949. Jun 7 Theo Medina (France) WRSF6(10) King's Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 12/06/1946 pages 15 and 16 Referee: Eugene Henderson Promoter: Bob Gardiner cut eye Aug 3 Jimmy Webster (Canning Town) WRTD6(8) Brighton Source: Boxing News 07/08/1946 page 15 Webster boxed a British Bantamweight Title Eliminator 1946 and 1947 and 1948 and was Southern Area Bantamweight Champion 1946. Aug 22 Teddy O'Neill (Dumbarton) WPTS(8) Kelvin Hall, Glasgow Source: Boxing News 28/08/1946 page 15 O'Neill was Scottish Area Bantamweight Champion 1937-48. Doran 8st 7lbs O'Neill 8st 6lbs 4ozs Sep 21 Norman Lewis (Nantymoel) WPTS(10) Port Talbot Source: Boxing News 02/10/1946 page 12 Match made at 8st 7lbs Oct 23 Johnny Boom (Stratford) DRAW(8) Caird Hall, Dundee Source: Boxing News 30/10/1946 pages 12 and 13 1947 Jan 14 Georges Mousse (France) WPTS(8) Seymour Hall Baths, Marylebone Source: Boxing News 22/01/1947 page 11 Doran 8st 8lbs Mousse 8st 7lbs Feb 10 Peter Kane (Golborne) LPTS(8) Manchester Source: Boxing News 05/03/1947 pages 9 and 10 Kane was World Flyweight Champion 1938-43 and European Bantamweight Champion 1947-48.