List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions
List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British light-heavyweight championship. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1891, and later by its replacement British Boxing Board of Control since 1929.

List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions

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Table Section Text: List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British light-heavyweight championship. The title has been sanctioned by the National Sporting Club since 1891, and later by its replacement British Boxing Board of Control since 1929.

Name	Duration of reign	Defences

Dennis Haugh	9 June 1913 – 9 March 1914	3

Dick Smith	9 March 1914 – 10 October 1916	2

Harry Reeve	10 October 1916 (rel)	0

Dick Smith	25 February 1918 (rel)	0

Noel "Boy" McCormick	28 April 1919 (rel)	0

Jack Bloomfield	1 May 1922 (rel)	0

Tom Berry	9 March 1925 – 25 April 1927	1

Gipsy Daniels	25 April 1927 (rel)	0

Frank Moody	27 November 1927 – 25 November 1929	1

Harry Crossley	25 November 1929 – 23 November 1932	1

Jack Petersen	23 May 1932 (rel)	0

Len Harvey	13 June 1933 (rel)	0

Eddie Phillips	4 February 1935 – 27 April 1937	1

Jock McAvoy	27 April 1937 – 7 April 1938	1

Len Harvey	7 April 1938 – 20 June 1942	2

Freddie Mills	20 June 1942 – 15 February 1950 (rel)	0

Don Cockell	17 October 1950 – 10 June 1952	2

Randolph Turpin	10 June 1952 (rel)	0

Dennis Powell	26 March 1953 – 26 October 1953	1

Alex Buxton	26 October 1953 – 26 April 1955	2

Randolph Turpin	26 April 1955 (rel)	0

Ron Barton	13 March 1956 (rel)	0

Randolph Turpin	26 November 1956 – 11 June 1957 (rel)	1

Chic Calderwood	28 January 1960 – 7 August 1963 (stripped of title)	2

Chic Calderwood	11 November 1964 (killed in road accident)	0

Young McCormack	19 June 1967 – 13 January 1969	2

Eddie Avoth	13 January 1969 – 24 January 1971	2

Chris Finnegan	24 January 1971 – 22 May 1973	2

John Conteh	22 May 1973 – 21 May 1974 (retired)	1

Johnny Frankham	3 June 1975 – 14 October 1975	1

Chris Finnegan	14 October 1975 (rel)	0

Tim Wood	28 April 1976 – 8 March 1977	1

Bunny Johnson	8 March 1977 – 27 February 1980 (rel)	3

Tom Collins	5 March 1982 – 26 January 1984	3

Dennis Andries	26 January 1984 – 10 September 1986 (rel)	4

Tom Collins	11 March 1987 (rel)	0

Tony Wilson	15 December 1987 – 22 March 1989	3

Tom Collins	22 March 1989 (rel)	0

Steve McCarthy	25 October 1990 (rel)	0

Crawford Ashley	25 August 1991 – 25 April 1992 (rel)	2

Maurice Core	28 September 1992 – 1 December 1993 (rel)	1

Crawford Ashley	14 March 1998 – 13 March 1999	2

Clinton Woods	13 March 1999 (rel)	0

Neil Simpson	22 April 2000 – 8 March 2003	2

Peter Oboh	8 March 2003 – 12 May 2004 (rel)	1

Tony Oakey	18 May 2007 – 13 June 2008	3

Dean Francis	13 June 2008 (rel)	0

Nathan Cleverly	18 July 2009 – 9 October 2009 (rel)	1

Tony Bellew	16 July 2011 – 27 April 2013 (rel)	1

Bob Ajisafe	15 March 2014 (rel)	0

Hosea Burton	27 February 2016 — 10 December 2016	0

Frank Buglioni	10 December 2016 — 24 March 2018	2

Callum Johnson	24 March 2018 — present	0

Sentence(s)

In January 1971, Finnegan won the British light-heavyweight championship.

final_sentence: In January 1971, Finnegan won the British light-heavyweight championship.