Wilf Greaves | |
Nickname: | Wilfie |
Weight: | light middle/middle/light heavyweight |
Birth Date: | 1935 12, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Entwistle, Alberta, Canada |
Death Place: | Fort Myers, Florida, U.S. |
Style: | Orthodox |
Total: | 65 |
Wins: | 36 (KO 20) |
Losses: | 27 (KO 8) |
Draws: | 2 |
Wilfred Francis Greaves (born 7 December 1935 – 26 August 2020) was a Canadian amateur light middleweight and professional light middle/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1950s and '60s who as an amateur won the gold medal at light middleweight in the Boxing at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and as a professional won the Canada middleweight title, and British Commonwealth middleweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 152NaN, i.e. light middleweight to 164NaN, i.e. light heavyweight.[1] Wilf Greaves was managed by Jacob Mintz.[2] [3]
Greaves had his first fight against Lee Owens in Syracuse, New York ending in a draw by points.