page_title: Llew Edwards
section_title: Taking the Australian lightweight title, Herb McCoy, 1916
hierarchical_section_title: Llew Edwards / Taking the Australian lightweight title, Herb McCoy, 1916
caption_attribution_description: Dave Smith versus Jerry Jerome, Sydney Stadium, 19 April 1913. Jerry Jerome is on left. Sitting in the audience behind row 'B' is boxer Black Paddy.
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: He first met Australian lightweight champion Herb McCoy in a non-title 20 round win on points on 27 May 1916 in Sydney Stadium. 
  Edwards fought for the Australian lightweight title against McCoy on 1 July 1916, but the bout resulted in a draw.  The two met again on 11 November at West Melbourne Stadium with Edwards winning in a twenty round points decision, and taking the lightweight title. 
  He successfully defended the Australian lightweight title for the last time against McCoy on 10 February 1917 in an eighteenth round knockout at Sydney Stadium, and after relinquishing the title, regained it on 12 January 1920 with a second-round knockout of Frank Brogan in Sydney's Hippodrome.
caption: Sydney Stadium, 1913
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