www.boxinghistory.org.uk - all rights reserved This page has been brought to you by www.boxinghistory.org.uk Click on the image above to visit our site Iron Hague (Mexborough) Active: 1905-1915 Weight classes fought in: Recorded fights: 32 contests (won: 18 lost: 13 drew: 1) Fight Record 1905 Jan 21 Dan Lewis (USA) WKO3 Drill Hall, Doncaster Apr 8 Dick Parkes (Goldthorpe) WRSF15(15) Volunteer Drill Hall, Doncaster (Yorkshire Pitmen's Heavyweight Title) Hague 12st 7lbs Parkes 12st 4lbs Hague 19yo Parkes 27yo Aug 5 Albert Rodgers (Sheffield) WRTD6(20) Drill Hall, Doncaster Promoter: Billy Bridgwater 4oz gloves
Nov 1 Sam Ogden (Parkgate) WKO3(8) Fairground, Mexborough Source: Manchester Sporting Chronicle 1906 Dec 22 Charlie Knock (Stratford) LKO3(20) Drill Hall, Doncaster Hague 13st 10lbs Knock 11st 6lbs 25 a side Knock 26yo Hague 21yo 1907 Jan 30 Tom Herridge (York) WKO2 Cavalry Barracks, York Oct 28 Jack Scales (Bethnal Green) DRAW(6) Norfolk Road Drill Hall, Sheffield 1908 Mar 16 Frank Craig (USA) WKO4(20) Drill Hall, Sheffield Hague 13st 0lbs Craig 11st 8lbs combined purse 60 50 a side May 11 Jack Scales (Bethnal Green) WKO2(20) Edmund Road Drill Hall, Sheffield Hague 13st 0lbs Scales 13st 8lbs combined purse 75 50 a side Jun 1 Cpl. Sunshine (1st RF) WKO4(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Oct 19 Charlie Wilson (Notting Hill) WKO5(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Wilson boxed for the British Middleweight Title 1909. combined purse 75 50 a side Dec 14 Ben Taylor (Woolwich) WKO2(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Hague 13st 7lbs Taylor 14st 10lbs
1909 Apr 19 Gunner Moir (Lambeth) WKO1(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Moir was British Heavyweight Champion 1906-09. Referee: Tom Scott May 24 Sam Langford (USA) LKO4(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Referee: Eugene Corri 1910 Feb 11 P.O. Curran (Plymouth) LKO15(20) Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Plymouth Source: Boxing 19/02/1910 pages 593 and 594 Curran boxed for the British Empire Heavyweight Title 1911 and boxed for the British Heavyweight Title in 1916. Attendance: 5000 Feb 21 Jewey Smith (London) LPTS(20) New City BC, Sheffield Smith boxed for the World Heavyweight Title 1908. Feb 21 Jewey Smith (London) LPTS(20) New City BC, Sheffield Source: Sheffield Daily Telegraph May 26 Cpl. Sunshine (1st RF) LPTS(20) Arena, Liverpool Source: Boxing 04/06/1910 page 326 Aug 15 Pte. W Smith (Royal West Kents) WPTS(20) Attercliffe Boxing Hall, Sheffield Source: Boxing 20/08/1910 page 602 Nov 7 Cpl. Brown (Grenadier Gds.) WKO18(20) Attercliffe Boxing Hall, Sheffield Source: Sheffield Daily Telegraph Referee: J R Smoult Dec 5 Jewey Smith (London) WPTS(20) Attercliffe Boxing Hall, Sheffield Source: Boxing 10/12/1910 pages 138 and 139 Referee: J R Smoult combined purse 250 Dec 31 Cpl. Sunshine (1st RF) WKO9 Olympia Rink, Mexborough Source: Mexborough and Swinton Times Referee: JR Smoult Promoter: George Law Attendance: 600 1911 Jan 2 Cpl. Sunshine (1st RF) WKO9(20) Olympia Rink, Mexborough Source: Boxing 14/01/1911 page 282
Jan 30 Bill Chase (Forest Gate) WKO6(10) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 04/02/1911 pages 352, 353 and 354 Apr 24 Bombardier Billy Wells (Streatham) LKO6(20) National Sporting Club, Covent Garden Source: Boxing 29/04/1911 pages 655, 656, 657 and 658 Wells was British and British Empire Heavyweight Champion 1911-19. 1912 Jul 8 Jim Robb (Biggar) WKO1 Stadium, Mexborough Aug 5 Tom Cowler (Whitehaven) LKO8(20) Stadium, Mexborough Promoter: George Law 25 a side Aug 12 Tom Cowler (Whitehaven) LKO9 Stadium, Mexborough Source: Boxing 17/08/1912 page 383 Sep 23 Percy Whetton (Measham) LRSF10 Boulevard Rink, Leicester Source: Boxing 28/09/1912 page 522 1915 Mar 25 Bandsman Rice (Hounslow) LPTS(15) West London Stadium, Marylebone Source: Boxing 31/03/1915 page 374 Rice boxed for the European Light-Heavyweight Title 1913 and boxed for the British Heavyweight Title 1914 and 1915. Jul 3 Tom Gummer (Rotherham) LKO10(15) Pheasant Inn Grounds, Carbrook Source: Boxing 07/07/1915 page 142 Gummer was British Middleweight Champion 1920-21. Aug 2 Bill Curzon (Bloomsbury) LKO3(10) Stamford Bridge, Chelsea Source: Boxing 04/08/1915 pages 203 and 204 Attendance: 35000 This record was researched and compiled by Miles Templeton and Richard Ireland. It may be published elsewhere provided full acknowledgement and a link to www.boxinghistory.org.uk are included www.boxinghistory.org.uk - all rights reserved This page has been brought to you by www.boxinghistory.org.uk
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