page_title: Llew Edwards
section_title: Taking the British and British Empire featherweight title, Owen Moran, 1915
hierarchical_section_title: Llew Edwards / Taking the British and British Empire featherweight title, Owen Moran, 1915
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of Owen Moran, an English boxer
context_page_description: Llewellyn "Llew" Edwards was a Welsh boxer who fought professionally between 1913 and 1922. He is most noted for winning both the British and the British Empire featherweight boxing titles in 1915 and for an outstanding winning record with a nearly 50% knockout ratio. He took the Australian lightweight title against Herb McCoy in 1916.
context_section_description: In early 1915, Edwards fought at the prestigious Covent Garden in London to challenge for the British and British Empire Featherweight title, left vacant by Ted "Kid" Lewis. Edwards first defeated Young Joe Brooks, and then Seaman Arthur Hayes in a first round TKO in the British featherweight title eliminator at London's Covent Garden on April 5, 1915.
  These wins allowed him to face the exceptional British champion Owen Moran in the title match on 31 May 1915 at Covent Garden's National Sporting Club, the most prestigious boxing venue in London. The incomparable Moran was a former British and world bantamweight champion, and the most accomplished opponent of Edwards's career.  With one hundred wins already in his record, the Cincinnati Enquirer, picked Edwards to become the new British champion, and he handily achieved the feat after Moran was disqualified in the tenth round for repeatedly punching low.  It was the prime of his career and Edwards's greatest victory.  One week earlier, he had stunned a sizable audience by knocking out featherweight contender Harold Walker in one round at the West London Stadium. Having married earlier in June, Edwards sailed for Australia in July, where he had eleven fights arranged with guaranteed earnings of £2,500.
caption: Owen Moran
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