Bunty Doran (Belfast)

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Active: 1938-1953

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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. May 5 Tommy Madine (Belfast) WKO4(15) Belfast Source: Boxing News 14/05/1947 page 14 (Northern Ireland Area Bantamweight Title) Madine boxed a British Bantamweight Title Eliminator 1946 and was Northern Ireland Area Bantamweight Champion 1945-47. Jun 11 Joe Boy Collins (Dublin) WKO1(15) Belfast Source: Boxing News 18/06/1947 page 15 (All Ireland Bantamweight Title) Doran 8st 5lbs 8ozs Collins 8st 2lbs 8ozs Jul 25 Jean Jouas (France) WPTS(10) Belfast Source: Boxing News 13/08/1947 page 12 Sep 27 Joe Cornelis (Belgium) LRTD6 Belfast Source: Boxing News 08/10/1947 page 13 Doran 8st 7lbs 8ozs Cornelis 8st 7lbs 4ozs Dec 26 Billy Tansey (Middleton) WPTS(8) Belfast Source: Boxing News 07/01/1948 page 14 Tansey boxed for the Central Area (North) Bantamweight Title 1948. Doran 8st 8lbs Tansey 8st 6lbs 8ozs

1948

Mar 18 Stan Rowan (Liverpool) LPTS(10) Stadium, Liverpool Source: Boxing News 24/03/1948 page 16 (British Bantamweight Title Eliminator) Rowan was British Bantamweight Champion 1949 and British Empire Bantamweight Champion 1949. Doran 8st 5lbs 13ozs Rowan 8st 8lbs Apr 16 Peter Kane (Golborne) LRTD8(10) Belle Vue, Manchester Source: Boxing News 21/04/1948 page 14 Doran 8st 7lbs 12ozs Kane 8st 7lbs 4ozs Jul 26 Teddy Gardner (West Hartlepool) LPTS(8) Engineers Club, West Hartlepool Source: Boxing News 04/08/1948 page 14 Gardner was British and British Empire and European Flyweight Champion 1952. Doran 8st 8lbs Gardner 8st 7lbs Aug 11 Gaston Vandenbos (Belgium) WPTS(8) Kelvin Hall, Glasgow Source: Boxing News 18/08/1948 page 16 Doran 8st 8lbs 5ozs Vandenbos 8st 7lbs 11ozs Promoter: Johnny McMillan Nov 26 Teddy Gardner (West Hartlepool) WPTS(8) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 08/12/1948 page 13 Doran 8st 3lbs 8ozs Gardner 8st 2lbs 8ozs

1949

Jan 25 Theo Medina (France) WPTS(10) King's Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 09/02/1949 page 12 Doran 8st 6lbs Medina 8st 6lbs 4ozs Apr 5 Georges Mousse (France) WPTS(10) King's Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 13/04/1949 page 12 Doran 8st 8lbs Mousse 8st 10lbs May 2 Stan Rowan (Liverpool) WRTD6(10) Dunmore Park, Belfast Source: Boxing News 11/05/1949 page 11 Match made at 8st 8lbs Jun 24 Guido Ferracin (Italy) LPTS(10) King's Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 29/06/1949 page 16 Sep 30 Danny O'Sullivan (Finsbury Park) LPTS(12) King's Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 05/10/1949 page 14 (British Bantamweight Title Eliminator) O'Sullivan was British Bantamweight Champion 1949-51. Doran 8st 5lbs 12ozs O'Sullivan 8st 5lbs 14ozs

1950

Jun 10 Manny Kid Francis (Gold Coast) WPTS(8) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 21/06/1950 page 12 Doran 8st 11lbs 12ozs Francis 8st 6lbs 12ozs Jul 6 Peter Keenan (Glasgow) LPTS(10) Ice Rink, Paisley Source: Boxing News 12/07/1950 page 13 (British Bantamweight Title Eliminator) Keenan was British Bantamweight Champion 1951-53 and 1954-59 and British Empire Bantamweight Champion 1955-59 and European Bantamweight Title 1951-52 and 1953. Doran 8st 5lbs 6ozs Keenan 8st 5lbs 4ozs Promoter: Charles Black Nov 3 Vic Toweel (South Africa) LRSF9(10) Beach Tennis Courts, Durban South Africa Source: Boxing News Doran 9st 0lbs 4ozs Toweel 8st 10lbs 8ozs 1951

Dec 26 Jackie Briers (Belfast) WPTS(15) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 09/01/1952 page 11 (Northern Ireland Area Bantamweight Title) Briers was Northern Ireland Area Flyweight Champion 1948. Doran 8st 5lbs 12ozs Briers 8st 4lbs 8ozs

1952

Feb 26 Ron Johnson (Bethnal Green) LPTS(8) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing News 05/03/1952 page 4 Johnson boxed a British Bantamweight Title Eliminator 1952. Doran 8st 11lbs 4ozs Johnson 8st 8lbs 4ozs

1953

Feb 11 Bobby Dodoo (Gold Coast) LPTS(8) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 25/02/1953 page 11 Mar 14 Andy Monohan (Southport) WPTS(8) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 25/03/1953 page 11 Doran 8st 6lbs 4ozs Monahan 8st 11lbs Mar 28 Jackie Fairclough (Preston) WPTS(8) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 08/04/1953 pages 11 and 12 Doran 8st 5lbs 8ozs Fairclough 8st 8lbs Apr 29 Terry McHale (Liverpool) WRTD4(8) Dundalk Source: Boxing News 06/05/1953 page 13 Doran 8st 5lbs 8ozs McHale 8st 6lbs 8ozs Promoter: Owen Clifford May 9 Neville Tetlow (Manchester) LPTS(8) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 20/05/1953 page 11 Doran 8st 8lbs Tetlow 8st 8lbs 4ozs Jun 27 John Kelly (Belfast) LRTD11(12) Ulster Hall, Belfast Source: Boxing News 08/07/1953 page 12 (Northern Ireland Area Bantamweight Title) Kelly was British and European Bantamweight Champion 1953-54. Doran 8st 5lbs 8ozs Kelly 8st 4lbs 4ozs

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