© 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 Albert Finch (Croydon) 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: Boxing 05/05/1937 page 13 1945 Aug 14 Eddie Starrs (Lochgelly) DRAW(6) Queensberry Club, Soho 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, Islington 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 (Nottingham) 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 Welterweight 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 Middleweight 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, Beckenham 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, Walworth 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, Greenwich 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, Willesden Source: Boxing News 17/07/1946 page 15 Sep 17 Vince Hawkins (Eastleigh) LPTS(8) Arena, Harringay 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, Clapham 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, Marylebone 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 (Norwich) 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, Walthamstow 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, Leyton Source: Boxing News 24/12/1947 page 16 Finch 11st 7lbs Mulcahey 11st 6lbs 1948 Apr 26 Randolph Turpin (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) Selhurst Park 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 Dick Turpin (Leamington) LPTS(15) City Football Ground, Birmingham 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, Leeds 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, West Ham 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, Streatham 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: