| Alex Ireland | |
| Realname: | Alexander Ramsay Ireland |
| Weight: | welter/middleweight |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Birth Date: | 10 April 1901 |
| Birth Place: | Leith, Scotland |
| Total: | 29 |
| Wins: | 17 (KO 3) |
| Losses: | 9 (KO 31) |
| Draws: | 3 |
Alexander Ramsay "Alex" Ireland (10 April 1901 – 25 January 1966) was a Scottish amateur and professional welter/middleweight boxer of the 1920s and 1930s. He fought under the name of Alex Ireland.
Ireland won the 1921 Amateur Boxing Association British welterweight title, when boxing out of the United Scottish BC.[1]
He won a silver medal in the welterweight boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium losing to Canadian boxer Bert Schneider in the final, and the Scottish Area welterweight title, the National Sporting Club (NSC) (subsequently known as the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC)) British middleweight title, British Empire middleweight title, and European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title. He was a challenger for the Scottish Area middleweight title and his professional fighting weight varied from 146NaN, i.e. welterweight to 1511NaN1, i.e. middleweight. He was born in Leith.[2]
1920 (as a welterweight)[3]
