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Peter Keenan (boxer)

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Height
  
5 ft 5 ⁄2 in (1.66 m)

No contests
  
0

Total fights
  
66

Nationality
  
Scottish

Name
  
Peter Keenan

Draws
  
1

Wins
  
54 (KO 23)

Role
  
Boxer

Number of contests
  
0

Losses
  
11 (KO 5)

Died
  
2000


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Rated at
  
fly/bantam/featherweight

Division
  
Flyweight, Featherweight, Bantamweight

Peter Keenan (8 August 1928 — 27 July 2000 (aged 71)) was a Scottish amateur flyweight and professional fly/bantam/featherweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s, who as an amateur was runner-up in the 1948 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) light middleweight title, against Henry Carpenter[1] (Bradfield ABC), boxing out of Anderston ABC, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Scottish Area bantamweight title, BBBofC British bantamweight title, European Boxing Union (EBU) bantamweight title (twice), and British Empire bantamweight title, and was a challenger for the World Bantamweight Title (British Empire version) against Vic Toweel, his professional fighting weight varied from 112 lb (51 kg; 8 st 0 lb), i.e. flyweight to 121 lb (54.9 kg; 8 st 9.0 lb), i.e. featherweight.

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References

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