Maurice Dennis | |
Nationality: | British (English) |
Sport: | boxing |
Birth Date: | 14 November 1913 |
Birth Place: | Camden, London, England |
Death Date: | First quarter 1962 |
Death Place: | Lambeth, London, England |
Maurice Dennis (1913–1962) was an amateur and professional boxer from Camden Town, England. He boxed between 1938 and 1940 an had 14 professional contests.[1]
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.