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Nationality
  
Scottish

Name
  
John McCluskey

Number of contests
  
0

No contests
  
0

Draws
  
2

Losses
  
8 (KO 2)

Total fights
  
23

Wins
  
13 (KO 4)

Role
  
Boxer


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Born
  
23 January 1944Hamilton, Scotland (
1944-01-23
)

Died
  
July 17, 2015, Hamilton, United Kingdom

Division
  
Flyweight, Featherweight, Bantamweight

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John McCluskey (23 January 1944 – 17 July 2015) born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, was a Scottish amateur flyweight and professional fly/bantam/featherweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s, who as an amateur won the 1964 and 1965 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) flyweight titles, represented Great Britain at flyweight in the Boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics losing to eventual bronze medal winner Stanislav Sorokin of the Soviet Union, and represented Scotland and won the bronze medal at flyweight at the 1965 European Amateur Boxing Championships, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British flyweight title, and Commonwealth flyweight title, and was challenger for the European Boxing Union (EBU) flyweight title against Fernando Atzori (twice), and Fritz Chervet, his professional fighting weight varied from 110 lb (50 kg; 7 st 12 lb), i.e. flyweight to 119 34 lb (54.3 kg; 8 st 7.8 lb), i.e. featherweight.

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References

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