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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1913-11-14)14 November 1913 Camden, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | First quarter 1962 Lambeth, London, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | boxing | ||||||||||||||
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Maurice Dennis (1913–1962) was an amateur and professional boxer from Camden Town, England. He boxed between 1938 and 1940, and had 14 professional contests.
Biography
Dennis won the 1937 Amateur Boxing Association British middleweight title, when boxing out of the Northampton Polytechnic ABC.
He was a silver medalist in boxing at the 1938 British Empire Games. 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.
He was a totalisator mechanic by trade.
References
- www.boxinghistory.org.uk
- "Roll of Honour". England Boxing. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- "New Boxing champions". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 8 April 1937. Retrieved 29 December 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- www.gbrathletics.com
- "Boxing mourns death of Empire Games gold medallist". Wales Online. 15 October 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
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