Maurice Dennis Explained

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]

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.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.boxinghistory.org.uk/dlist.html www.boxinghistory.org.uk
  2. Web site: Roll of Honour. England Boxing. 2 January 2022.
  3. News: New Boxing champions. Coventry Evening Telegraph . 8 April 1937 . 29 December 2021 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
  4. http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/boxing.htm www.gbrathletics.com
  5. Web site: Boxing mourns death of Empire Games gold medallist. Wales Online. 15 October 2010 . 2 January 2022.