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Jackie Pottinger

Jackie Pottinger

Welsh boxer

John Mitchell Baker Pottinger (1913-1979) was a boxer who competed for Wales.

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Boxing career

Pottinger won a bronze medal in the flyweight division at the 1934 British Empire Games in London. He lost to Georgie Coyle of New York in the New York Golden Gloves tournament during 1935.

He won the 1938 Amateur Boxing Association British bantamweight title, when boxing out of the Cardiff Gas BC.[2][3]

Personal life

He was a manufacturer by trade and lived at 97 Ferry Road, Grangetown, Cardiff in 1935.

References

  1. [1]
    "Births & Baptisms". Free BMD.
  2. [2]
    "Roll of Honour". England Boxing. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Fisher and Spears lose in finals". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 7 April 1938. Retrieved 10 January 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.


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