John Irwin (born 31 May 1969, Doncaster), known as Jon Jo Irwin, is a retired English amateur featherweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1990s.

Contents

• 1 Boxing career
  • 1.1 Amateur
  • 1.2 Professional
• 2 References
• 3 External links

Boxing career

Amateur

As an amateur he represented England and won a gold medal in the -57 kg featherweight division, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.

He also won the prestigious 1991 ABA featherweight championship, against Mark Bowers (Pinewood Starr ABC (Crowthorne), boxing out of Tom Hill ABC (Doncaster).

Professional

As a professional won the Irish featherweight *le, World Boxing Board (WBB) super featherweight *le, World Boxing Organization (WBO) Inter-Continental featherweight *le, British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British featherweight *le, and Commonwealth featherweight *le, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British featherweight *le against Paul Ingle, and European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight *le against Steve Robinson, his professional fighting weight varied from 124+3⁄4:lb (56.6:kg; 8:st 12.8:lb), i.e. featherweight to 129:lb (59:kg; 9:st 3:lb), i.e. super featherweight.

References

External links

• Boxing record for Jon Jo Irwin from BoxRec (registration required)
• Image - Jon Jo Irwin
• Article - Top boxer Jon Jo helps troubled pupils make a fist of schooldays