caption ko death_date death_place weight birth_place height article_title total birth_date draws reach image losses wins style
vic patrick c. 1948 45 11 august 2006 -lrb- aged 86 -rrb- sydney , australia lightweight sydney , australia 1.70 m ftin on vic patrick
 57 2 june 1920 1 1.73 m ftin on vic patrick c1948.jpg 4 52 southpaw
vic patrick

victor `` vic '' patrick lucca -lrb- 2 june 1920 -- 11 august 2006 -rrb- was an australian professional boxer and referee .
patrick was born to an oyster farmer and took up boxing in 1940 to earn money .
he first fought under the name alf edwards , so that his mother would not know he was boxing .
he won his first 18 bouts , 17 of them by knockout .
he then lost to tod morgan via an unintentional foul , but won their next bout , along with the national lightweight title .
he defended it two months later , again against morgan , and in 1942 captured the australian welterweight title .
he kept the lightweight title until retirement in 1948 , but relinquished the welterweight title in 1946 .
after retiring patrick had a long career as a referee .
he also played himself in a boxing documentary `` fighting blood -lrb- 1951 film -rrb- '' .
in 1986 he was inducted into the sport australia hall of fame as an athlete , and in 1996 upgraded to `` legend of australian sport '' .
in 1987 he was awarded the medal of the order of australia , and in 2003 inducted into the australian national boxing hall of fame .
