English boxer
Maurice Dennis
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Nationality | British (English) |
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Born | (1913-11-14)14 November 1913 Camden, London, England |
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Died | First quarter 1962 Lambeth, London, England |
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Sport | boxing |
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Maurice Dennis (1913โ1962) was an amateur and professional boxer from Camden Town, England. He boxed between 1938 and 1940 an had 14 professional contests.[1]
Biography
Dennis won the 1937 Amateur Boxing Association British middleweight title, when boxing out of the Northampton Polytechnic ABC.[2][3]
He was a silver medalist in boxing at the 1938 British Empire Games.[4] Denis Reardon, the first boxing gold medalist from Wales at the British Empire Games (now the Commonwealth Games) defeated Maurice Dennis in the middleweight final at the 1938 Sydney games.[5]
He was a totalisator mechanic by trade.
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