Johnny Pritchett
John G. Pritchett is an English amateur welterweight and professional light middle/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s, and boxing manager of the 1970s and '80s. He fought as Johnny Pritchett.
Boxing career
As an amateur won the Amateur Boxing Association of England 1959 Junior Class-A title against B. Ford of St Peters ABC, boxing out of Bingham & District ABC, won the 1962 ABA welterweight title, against Harry Dean, boxing out of Bingham & District ABC and won the 1963 ABA welterweight title, against Ralph Charles, boxing out of Bingham & District ABC.He represented the 1962 English team at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia. He competed in the welterweight category, where he won a silver medal after losing to Wallace Coe of New Zealand in the final bout.
As a professional he won the British Boxing Board of Control British middleweight title, and British Commonwealth middleweight title, and was a challenger for the European Boxing Union middleweight title against Juan Carlos Durán, his professional fighting weight varied from, i.e. light middleweight to, i.e. light heavyweight.