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Evan Armstrong

Evan Armstrong

Scottish boxer


Evan Armstrong (15 February 1943 8 July 2017) was a Scottish professional bantam/feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s, who won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Scottish Area bantamweight title, BBBofC Scottish Area featherweight title, BBBofC British featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British bantamweight title against Alan Rudkin, and European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight title against José Legrá, his professional fighting weight varied from 116+34 lb (53.0 kg; 8 st 4.8 lb), i.e. bantamweight to 127+12 lb (57.8 kg; 9 st 1.5 lb), i.e. super featherweight.[1] Armstrong had Alzheimer's disease later in life and died at the age of 74 in 2017.[2]

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  1. "Statistics at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Archived from the original on 19 June 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2013.



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