England Boxing National Amateur Championships Heavyweight Champions

The England Boxing National Amateur Championships Heavyweight Championship formerly known as the ABA Championships is the primary English amateur boxing championship.[1] It had previously been contested by all the nations of the United Kingdom.

England Boxing National Amateur Championships Heavyweight Champions
Status	active
Genre	Boxing
Date(s)	-
Country	-
Inaugurated	1881
Organised by	England Boxing

Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone 1895 and 1896 champion

Frank Parks 1899, 1901, 1902, 1905 and 1906 champion

History

The heavyweight division is the newest division only being inaugurated in 1998 and is currently contested in the under-91 Kg weight division. The championships are highly regarded in the boxing world and seen as the most prestigious national amateur championships.[2][3]

Past Winners

Year	Winner	Club	Notes
2020	cancelled due to COVID 19.[4]
2019	Natty Ngwenya	Army
2018	Lewis Williams	Cleary's ABC
2017	Cheavon Clarke	Gravesham ABC
2016	Cheavon Clarke	Gravesham ABC
2015	Ricardo Slue	Fitzroy Lodge ABC
2014	Warren Baister	Sunderland ABC
2013	Greg Bridet	Heart of Portsmouth ABC
2012	Simon Barclay	Corby ABC
2011	Ben Ileyemi	Finchley ABC
2010	Danny Price	Scarborough ABC
2009	Chris Keane	Pleck ABC
2008	Tyson Fury	Manchester ABC
2007	Danny Price	Westway ABC
2006	Tony Bellew	Rotunda ABC
2005	Tony Bellew	Rotunda ABC
2004	Tony Bellew	Rotunda ABC
2003	Mick O'Connell	Royal Navy
2002	David Dolan	Plains Farm ABC
2001	David Dolan	Plains Farm ABC
2000	David Dolan	Plains Farm ABC
1999	Stuart St. John	Berry Boys ABC
1998	Neil Hoskins	Royal Air Force
1997	Blue Stevens	Pinehurst Star ABC
1996	Anthony Oakley	Leigh Park ABC
1995	Mathew Ellis	Blackpool ABC
1994	Steve Burford	Army
1993	Paul Lawson	Repton ABC
1992	Scott Welch	Hove ABC
1991	Paul Lawson	Repton ABC
1990	Keith Inglis	Tunbridge Wells ABC
1989	Henry Akinwande	Lynn ABC
1988	Henry Akinwande	Lynn ABC
1987	James Moran	Austin ABC
1986	Eric Cardouza	Kingsthorpe ABC
1985	Harold Hylton	Viking ABC
1984	Doug Young	Hawick ABC
1983	Horace Notice	Nechells ABC
1982	Harold Hylton	Brockworth Viking ABC
1981	Adrian Elliott	Fairburn House ABC
1980	Frank Bruno	Sir Phillip Game ABC
1979	Andy Palmer	Golden Gloves ABC
1978	Julius Awome	Working ABC
1977	Glenn Adair	Barnstaple ABC
1976	John Rafferty	Monkland ABC
1975	Gregory McEwan	Rum Runners ABC
1974	Neville Meade	Royal Air Force
1973	Garfield McEwan	Kyrle Hall ABC
1972	Tim Wood	Belgrave ABC
1971	Les Stevens	Reading ABC
1970	Jim Gilmour	Sighthill ABC
1969	Alan Burton	Caius ABC
1968	William Wells	Lynn ABC
1967	Peter Boddington	Rootes ABC
1966	Anthony Brogan	Barnstaple ABC
1965	William Wells	Wandsworth ABC
1964	Colin Woodhouse	Wandsworth ABC
1963	Robert Sanders	Royal Navy
1962	Rae Dryden	Royal Navy
1961	Billy Walker	West Ham ABC
1960	Len Hobbs	Army
1959	Dave Thomas	Polytechnic ABC
1958	Dave Thomas	Polytechnic ABC
1957	Dave Thomas	Polytechnic ABC
1956	Dave Rent	Maple Leaf ABC
1955	Dennis Rowe	Glamorgan Police
1954	Brian Harper	Royal Air Force
1953	Joe Erksine	Army
1952	Eddie Hearn	Battersea ABC
1951	Albert Halsey	Kyrle Hall ABC
1950	Peter Toch	Army
1949	A. Worrall	Army
1948	Jack Gardner	Army
1947	George Scriven	Downham Community ABC
1946	Pat Floyd	Polytechnic ABC
1945	George Scott	Nottingham City Police & APTC ABC
1944	Mark Hart	Royal Air Force
1943	George Preston	Battersea ABC
1939	Jock Porter	Colchester City ABC
1938	George Preston	Battersea ABC
1937	Anthony Stuart	London Fire Brigade ABC
1936	Anthony Stuart	London Fire Brigade ABC
1935	Pat Floyd	Battersea & The Times ABC
1934	Pat Floyd	Battersea & The Times ABC
1933	Con O'Grady	London City Police ABC
1932	Anthony Stuart	London Fire Brigade ABC
1931	M. Flanagan	Dublin Civic Guards ABC
1930	Anthony Stuart	Royal Corps of Signals
1929	Pat Floyd	Battersea ABC
1928	James O'Driscoll	Dublin Civic Guards ABC
1927	C. Capper	Royal Artillery
1926	Thyge Petersen	Denmark
1925	D. Lister	ISBA
1924	Arthur Clifton	PLA Police ABC
1923	Eddie Eagan	Oxford University ABC
1922	T. Evans	Amman Valley ABC
1921	Ronald Rawson	Polytechnic ABC
1920	Ronald Rawson	Polytechnic ABC
1919	H. Brown	Belsize ABC
1914	E. Chandler	Stock Exchange ABC
1913	R. Smith	Metropolitan ABC
1912	R. Smith	Metropolitan ABC
1911	W. Hazell [5]	City Police ABC
1910	F. Storbeck	South Africa
1909	C. Brown	Victoria ABC
1908	Syd Evans	Reading ABC
1907	Harold Brewer	Polytechnic ABC
1906	Fred Parks	Polytechnic ABC
1905	Fred Parks	Polytechnic ABC
1904	A. Horner	Belsize ABC
1903	E. Dickson	Edinburgh Harriers ABC
1902	Fred Parks	Polytechnic ABC
1901	Fred Parks	Polytechnic ABC
1900	William J. Dees	Goldsmith Institute ABC
1899	Fred Parks	Polytechnic ABC
1898	Geoff Townsend	Goldsmith Institute ABC
1897	Geoff Townsend	Goldsmith Institute ABC
1896	Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone	Royal Irish Regiment
1895	Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone	Royal Irish Regiment
1894	H. King	Belsize ABC
1893	Joe Steers	Middleton ABC
1892	Joe Steers	Middleton ABC
1891	Val Barker	Belsize ABC
1890	Joe Steers	London ABC
1889	A. Bowman	Royal Victor ABC
1888	W. King	Belsize ABC
1887	Edward White	Belle Sauvage ABC
1886	Anthony Diamond	Birmingham ABC
1885	W. West	Northampton ABC
1884	H. Dearsley	St. James ABC
1883	H. Dearsley	Thames ABC
1882	H. Dearsley	St. James ABC
1881	R. Frost Smith	Clapton ABC

References

1. "Amateur boxing history". Boxing History.
2. "What are the National Amateur Championships?". BBC Sport.
3. "Elite". Amateur Boxing Association of England.
4. "Coronavirus cancellation". England Boxing. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
5. The Britannica Year Book. 1911. p. 454. The Amateur Boxing Association championships were won in 1911 by W. W. Allen (bantam weights) H. Bavers (feather weights), A. Spenceley (light weights), W. Child (middle weights) W. Hazell (heavy weights). Allen regained his title in 1912: the other winners in the same order of weights were G. R. Baker, R. Marriott, E. V. Chandler, R. Smith.