Jon Jo Irwin

Jon Jo Irwin
Statistics
Real name John Irwin
Rated at feather/super featherweight
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Nationality English
Born (1969-05-31) 31 May 1969
Denaby, Doncaster, England
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights 30
Wins 19 (KO 5)
Losses 5 (KO 3)

Jon Jo Irwin (31 May 1969) born in Doncaster is an English amateur featherweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1990s, who as an amateur represented England and won the gold medal at Featherweight in the Boxing at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand, and won the 1991 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) featherweight title, against Mark Bowers (Pinewood Starr ABC (Crowthorne),[1] boxing out of Tom Hill ABC (Doncaster), and as a professional won the Irish featherweight title, World Boxing Board (WBB) super featherweight title, World Boxing Organization (WBO) Inter-Continental featherweight title, British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British featherweight title against Paul Ingle, and European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight title against Steve Robinson, his professional fighting weight varied from 124 3⁄4 lb (56.6 kg; 8 st 12.8 lb), i.e. featherweight to 129 lb (59 kg; 9 st 3 lb), i.e. super featherweight.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "104th ABAE National Championship". abae.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Statistics at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.


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