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Dick Smith (Woolwich)

Active: 1913-1924

Weight classes fought in:

Recorded fights: 22 contests (won: 8 lost: 13 drew: 1)

Fight Record

1913

Oct 6 Tom Leary (Woolwich) WPTS(10) Baths, Plumstead Source: Boxing 11/10/1913 page 582 Oct 27 Harry Croxon (West Drayton) WPTS Baths, New Cross Source: Boxing 01/11/1913 page 10

1914

Jan 19 Denis Haugh (Ireland) LPTS(15) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 24/01/1914 page 315 Mar 9 Denis Haugh (Ireland) WPTS(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 14/03/1914 pages 497 and 498 (British Light-Heavyweight Title) Haugh boxed for the British Light-Heavyweight Title 1914. 1915

May 31 Bombardier Billy Wells (Streatham) LKO9(20) The Ring, Blackfriars Source: Boxing 02/06/1915 pages 55 and 56 (British Heavyweight Title) Wells was British and British Empire Heavyweight Champion 1911-19. Referee: G T Dunning

1916

Feb 21 Bombardier Billy Wells (Streatham) LKO3(20) Hippodrome, Golders Green Source: Boxing 23/02/1916 pages 239 and 240 (British Heavyweight Title) Mar 27 Harry Reeve (Plaistow) LPTS(20) The Ring, Blackfriars Source: Boxing 29/03/1916 page 321 Reeve was British Light-Heavyweight Champion 1916-17. Jun 5 Sgt. Harry Curzon (Derby) WPTS(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 07/06/1916 page 103 (British Light-Heavyweight Title) Curzon boxed for the British Light-Heavyweight Title 1916. Aug 28 Bombardier Billy Wells (Streatham) LRTD9(20) St James Park, Newcastle Source: Boxing 30/08/1916 page 262 (British Heavyweight Title) Promoter: Jim Lowes Attendance: 11842 Oct 30 Harry Reeve (Plaistow) LPTS(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 01/11/1916 pages 18 and 20 (British Light-Heavyweight Title)

1918

Feb 25 Joe Beckett (Southampton) WPTS(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing (British Light-Heavyweight Title) Beckett was British and British Empire Heavyweight Champion 1919-23. Referee: JH Douglas Apr 1 Arthur Townley (Birkenhead) LRTD6(20) Pudsey Street Stadium, Liverpool Source: Boxing Referee: Jack Smith Nov 18 Frank Goddard (Clapham) LKO8(20) The Ring, Blackfriars Source: Boxing Goddard was British Heavyweight Champion 1919 and 1923-26. Dec 11 Sgt. Sale (RAF) WPTS(3) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing (Inter Services Kings Trophy Light-Heavyweight competition 2nd series) 1919

Mar 22 Tom Harris (Canning Town) LKO1(6) The Ring, Blackfriars Source: Boxing 26/03/1919 pages 156 and 157 Jul 19 Georges Carpentier (France) LKO8(20) Cirque de Paris, Paris France Source: Boxing 23/07/1919 pages 7, 008 and 10

1920

Mar 5 Joe Beckett (Southampton) LKO5(20) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing 10/03/1920 pages 118 and 119 (British Heavyweight Title) Referee: Joe Palmer Sep 5 Marcel Nilles (France) DRAW(15) Deauville France Source: Boxing

1922

Jan 16 Albert Lloyd (Australia) WPTS(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 18/01/1922 page 336 Nov 6 George Cook (Australia) WRTD15(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 08/11/1922 page 200 Cook boxed for the British Heavyweight Title 1934.

1923

May 14 Joe Beckett (Southampton) LKO17(20) Holland Park, Kensington Source: Boxing 16/05/1923 pages 55, 056 and 57 (British Heavyweight Title)

1924

May 29 Jack Bloomfield (Islington) LKO4(15) Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Source: Boxing 04/06/1924 pages 262, 263, 266 and 267 Bloomfield was British Light-Heavyweight Champion 1922-24 and British Empire Light-Heavyweight Champion 1923-24. Referee: Eugene Corri Promoter: Major Arnold Wilson

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