Real name John Irwin Name Jon Irwin Stance Orthodox stance Losses 5 (KO 3) Total fights 30 | Wins 19 (KO 5) Height 1.73 m Nationality English Role Boxer | |
Rated at feather/super featherweight Born 31 May 1969 (age 54)
Denaby, Doncaster, England ( 1969-05-31 ) Division Featherweight, Super featherweight | ||
Colin Lynch vs Jon Jo Irwin
John Irwin (born 31 May 1969, Doncaster), known as Jon Jo Irwin, is an English amateur featherweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1990s, who as an amateur represented England and won the gold medal at Featherweight in the Boxing at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand, and won the 1991 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) featherweight title, against Mark Bowers[1] (Pinewood Starr ABC (Crowthorne), boxing out of Tom Hill ABC (Doncaster), and as a professional won the Irish featherweight title, World Boxing Board (WBB) super featherweight title, World Boxing Organization (WBO) Inter-Continental featherweight title, British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British featherweight title against Paul Ingle, and European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight title against Steve Robinson, his professional fighting weight varied from 124 3⁄4 lb (56.6 kg; 8 st 12.8 lb), i.e. featherweight to 129 lb (59 kg; 9 st 3 lb), i.e. super featherweight.