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Bombardier Billy Wells (Streatham) © 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 Bombardier Billy Wells (Streatham) Active: 1909-1925 Weight classes fought in: Recorded fights: 59 contests (won: 48 lost: 11) Fight Record 1909 Pte. Tansell WKO India Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) Cpl. Colbourne WKO India Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) Pte. Jarvis WKO India Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) Sgt. Gale WKO India Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) Pte. Clohessy (Royal Munster Fusileers) WPTS India Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) Gunner Turner WKO India Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) 1910 Feb 13 Pte. Clohessy (Royal Munster Fusileers) WRTD3 India Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) Jun 8 Joe Mills WPTS(6) Source: Vic Hardwicke (Boxing Historian) Jun 22 Gunner McMurray (Shoeburyness) WKO1(10) Garrison Theatre, Shoeburyness Source: Boxing 02/07/1910 page 423 Referee: Eugene Corri Jul 23 Cpl. Brown (Grenadier Gds.) WKO3(10) Wonderland, Whitechapel Source: Boxing 30/07/1910 pages 527 and 528 Sep 15 Cpl. Sunshine (1st RF) WKO6(20) Kings Hall, Southwark Source: Boxing 24/09/1910 pages 717 and 718 Oct 19 Pte. Dan Voyles (Irish Guards) WKO10(20) Kings Hall, Southwark Source: Boxing 29/10/1910 pages 850 and 851 Promoter: Mr McIntosh Nov 16 Seaman Parsons (HMS Black Prince) WKO1(20) Kings Hall, Southwark Source: Boxing 26/11/1910 page 87 1911 Jan 11 Gunner Moir (Lambeth) LRSF3(20) Olympia, Kensington Source: Boxing 21/01/1911 pages 295, 296 and 297 Moir was British Heavyweight Champion 1906-09. Referee: Eugene Corri Mar 8 Porky Flynn (USA) WPTS(20) Olympia, Kensington Source: Boxing 18/03/1911 pages 495 and 496 Apr 24 Iron Hague (Mexborough) WKO6(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 29/04/1911 pages 655, 656, 657 and 658 (British Heavyweight Title) Hague was British Heavyweight Champion 1909-11. Dec 18 Fred Storbeck (South Africa) WKO11(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 23/12/1911 pages 195, 196 and 197 Referee: Mr Douglas 1912 Jun 28 Al Palzer (USA) LKO3 Madison Square Garden, New York City USA Source: Boxing 06/07/1912 pages 234 and 235 Jul 18 Tom Kennedy (USA) WKO8 Madison Square Garden, New York City USA Source: Boxing 27/07/1912 pages 303, 304, 305, 330 Dec 6 George Rodel (South Africa) WKO2(20) Kings Hall, Southwark Source: Boxing 14/12/1912 pages 188, 189 and 190 1913 Mar 14 Gunboat Smith (USA) LKO2 New York City USA Source: Boxing 29/03/1913 page 574 Jun 1 Georges Carpentier (France) LKO1(20) Ghent Belgium Source: Boxing 07/06/1913 pages 131 and 132 (European Heavyweight Title) Jun 30 Packey Mahoney (Ireland) WRSF13(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 05/07/1913 pages 234, 235 and 236 (British Heavyweight Title) Mahoney boxed for the British Heavyweight Title 1913. Aug 4 Pat O'Keefe (Canning Town) WKO15(20) The Ring, Blackfriars Source: Boxing 09/08/1913 page 357 (British Heavyweight Title) O'Keefe was British Middleweight Champion 1906 and 1914-16 and 1918-19. Sep 10 Gunner Moir (Lambeth) WKO4(20) Canterbury Music Hall Source: Boxing 20/09/1913 pages 503, 504 and 510 (British Heavyweight Title) Dec 8 Georges Carpentier (France) LKO1(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 13/12/1913 pages 157, 158 and 159 1914 Jan 14 Gunner Rawles (Dundalk) WRTD10(20) Theatre Royal, Belfast Source: Boxing 24/01/1914 page 314 (British Heavyweight Title) Rawles boxed for the British Heavyweight Title 1914. Jan 24 Gaston Pigot (France) WKO1(20) Cardiff Source: Boxing 31/01/1914 page 337 Mar 3 Bandsman Blake (Great Yarmouth) WKO4(20) London Palladium Source: Boxing 07/03/1914 pages 451, 455, 457 and 459 (British Heavyweight Title) Blake was British Middleweight Champion 1916-18. Apr 2 Albert Lurie (France) WKO7(20) Canterbury Music Hall Source: Boxing 11/04/1914 pages 613 and 614 Apr 30 Bandsman Rice (Hounslow) WPTS(20) Pudsey Street Stadium, Liverpool Source: Boxing 09/05/1914 pages 38, 040 and 45 (British Heavyweight Title) Rice boxed for the European Light-Heavyweight Title 1913 and boxed for the British Heavyweight Title 1914 and 1915. Jun 30 Colin Bell (Australia) WKO2(20) Olympia, Kensington Source: Boxing 04/07/1914 pages 238, 240, 250 and 251 1915 Feb 12 Dan McGoldrick (Airdrie) WRTD7(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth Source: Boxing 20/02/1915 page 268 Feb 24 Bandsman Rice (Hounslow) WKO6(20) Opera House, Belfast Source: Boxing 06/03/1915 page 297 (British Heavyweight Title) Referee: J T Hulls Mar 29 Frank Moran (USA) LKO10(20) Opera House, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 31/03/1915 pages 360, 361, 362 and 363 May 31 Dick Smith (Woolwich) WKO9(20) The Ring, Blackfriars Source: Boxing 02/06/1915 pages 55 and 56 (British Heavyweight Title) Smith was British Light-Heavyweight Champion 1914-16 and 1918-19. Referee: G T Dunning Dec 26 Bandsman Rice (Hounslow) WKO1(20) Pudsey Street Stadium, Liverpool Source: Boxing 29/12/1915 page 119 (British Heavyweight Title) 1916 Feb 21 Dick Smith (Woolwich) WKO3(20) Hippodrome, Golders Green Source: Boxing 23/02/1916 pages 239 and 240 (British Heavyweight Title) Mar 31 P.O. Curran (Plymouth) WRTD5(15) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth Source: Boxing 05/04/1916 page 342 (British Heavyweight Title) Curran boxed for the British Empire Heavyweight Title 1911 and boxed for the British Heavyweight Title in 1916. Aug 28 Dick Smith (Woolwich) WRTD9(20) St James Park, Newcastle Source: Boxing 30/08/1916 page 262 (British Heavyweight Title) Promoter: Jim Lowes Attendance: 11842 Dec 18 Pte. Dan Voyles (Irish Guards) WRSF2(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 20/12/1916 pages 105 and 106 (British Heavyweight Title) Voyles boxed for the British Heavyweight Title 1916. 1918 Dec 11 Eddie McGoorty (USA) WPTS(3) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing (Inter Services King's Trophy Heavyweight competition semi-final) Dec 11 Ivor Powell (Newport) WPTS(3) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing (Inter Services King's Trophy Heavyweight competition 1st series) Dec 12 Joe Beckett (Southampton) WPTS(3) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Record published in Boxing News in the 1960s (Inter Services King's Trophy Heavyweight competition final) Beckett was British and British Empire Heavyweight Champion 1919-23. 1919 Feb 27 Joe Beckett (Southampton) LKO5(20) Stadium, Holborn Source: Boxing 05/03/1919 pages 102, 104 and 105 (British and Empire Heavyweight Title) Referee: J T Hulls Oct 17 Jack Curphey (Salford) WKO2(20) Stadium, Holborn Source: Boxing 22/10/1919 pages 293 and 294 Curphey boxed for the British Heavyweight Title 1919. Promoter: Charles B Cochran Nov 20 Arthur Townley (Birkenhead) WRSF9(20) Stadium, Holborn Source: Boxing 26/11/1919 pages 411, 412 and 414 Referee: JT Hulls Promoter: CB Cochran 1920 Jan 27 Harry Reeve (Plaistow) WKO4(20) Canterbury Music Hall, Lambeth Source: Boxing 04/02/1920 page 42 Reeve was British Light-Heavyweight Champion 1916-17. Mar 17 Paul Journee (France) WKO4(20) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing 24/03/1920 pages 151 and 154 Referee: Joe Palmer Apr 8 Eddie McGoorty (USA) WKO16(20) Stadium, Holborn Source: Boxing 14/04/1920 pages 206, 207 and 210 Referee: Joe Palmer May 10 Joe Beckett (Southampton) LKO3(20) Olympia, Kensington Source: Boxing 12/05/1920 pages 284 and 285 (British Heavyweight Title) Referee: Jack Smith Promoter: CB Cochran Sep 7 Paul Journee (France) WKO16(20) Deauville France Source: BoxRec 1922 Apr 24 Albert Lloyd (Australia) WRTD10(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 26/04/1922 pages 168 and 169 May 27 Frank Goddard (Clapham) LKO6(20) Crystal Palace, Sydenham Source: Boxing 31/05/1922 page 247 Goddard was British Heavyweight Champion 1919 and 1923-26. Referee: Joe Palmer Oct 12 Jack Bloomfield (Islington) LKO6(15) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing 18/10/1922 pages 150, 151 and 152 Bloomfield was British Light-Heavyweight Champion 1922-24 and British Empire Light-Heavyweight Champion 1923-24. Referee: Eugene Corri 1924 Nov 24 Charlie Penwill (Coldstream Gds) WKO2(15) Pitfield Street Baths, Hoxton Source: Boxing 26/11/1924 page 249 Referee: Joe Palmer Dec 15 Gunner Bennett (Redbourne) WRTD9(15) Olympia, Liverpool Source: Boxing 17/12/1924 page 298 1925 Jan 30 Soldier Horace Jones (Canada) WDSQ6(20) The Dome, Brighton Source: Boxing 04/02/1925 pages 407 and 410 Referee: Percy Moss Promoter: Jack Callaghan Apr 30 Jack Stanley (Deptford) LKO3(15) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing 06/05/1925 pages 198, 202 and 203 Stanley boxed for the British Heavyweight Title 1924. Referee: CH Douglas © This record was researched and compiled by Miles Templeton and Richard Ireland. 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