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Johnny Williams (boxer)

Index Johnny Williams (boxer)

Johnny Williams (25 December 1926 in Barmouth – 6 February 2007) was a British former professional boxer in the 1940s and 1950s and was at one time both the British and Empire heavyweight champion. [1]

85 relations: Arena, Assembly rooms, Barmouth, BBC, Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Belle Vue, Manchester, Berlin, Berlin Sportpalast, Billy Wood, Birmingham, Bowling, Boxing, Brent Town Hall, British Boxing Board of Control, Bus garage, Caledonian Road, London, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Cheltenham Town Hall, Coney Beach Pleasure Park, Coventry, Don Cockell, Dortmund, Drill hall, Durban, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Exeter, Festhalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Gerhard Hecht, Granby Halls, Hall, Harringay, Harringay Arena, Heavyweight, Hennie Quentemeijer, Hesse, Highfield Road, Hull Arena, Ice rink, Islington, Jack Gardner (boxer), Joe Bygraves, Joe Erskine (Welsh boxer), Johannesburg, Johnny Houlston, Kensington, Kettering, Kingston upon Hull, Kitione Lave, ..., Leamington Spa, Leicester, Leicestershire, Maindy Centre, Market Harborough, Newark, New Jersey, Newport, Wales, Newtown, Powys, Nick Wolmarans, North Rhine-Westphalia, Nottingham, Nottingham Ice Stadium, Oxford, Oxford Town Hall, Porthcawl, Roller rink, Royal Albert Hall, Rugby, Warwickshire, Sandwell, Schöneberg, Seat of local government, Smethwick, St Andrew's (stadium), St James Park (Exeter), Stadion Rote Erde, Stadium, Turkish bath, Uline Arena, United Kingdom, Washington, D.C., Wembley, Westfalenhallen, White City Stadium, White City, London, Yorkshire. Expand index (35 more) »

Arena

An arena, is a covered or not covered enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events.

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Assembly rooms

In Great Britain and Ireland, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, assembly rooms were gathering places for members of the higher social classes open to members of both sexes.

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Barmouth

Barmouth (Abermaw (formal); Y Bermo (colloquial)) is a town in the county of Gwynedd, north-western Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Mawddach and Cardigan Bay.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Belle Vue Zoological Gardens

Belle Vue Zoological Gardens was a large zoo, amusement park, exhibition hall complex and speedway stadium in Belle Vue, Manchester, England, opened in 1836.

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Belle Vue, Manchester

Belle Vue is an area of Gorton, in the city of Manchester, England.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Berlin Sportpalast

Berlin Sportpalast (built 1910, demolished 1973) was a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the Schöneberg section of Berlin, Germany.

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Billy Wood

Billy Wood (31 August 1905 – 14 November 1975) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Bowling

Bowling is a sport or leisure activity in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball towards a target.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

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Brent Town Hall

Brent Town Hall is a landmark building in Wembley Park in the London Borough of Brent, northwest London, England.

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British Boxing Board of Control

The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) is the governing body of professional boxing in the United Kingdom.

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Bus garage

A bus garage, also known as a bus depot, bus base or bus barn, is a facility where buses are stored and maintained.

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Caledonian Road, London

The Caledonian Road passes for about a mile and a half north-south through the London Borough of Islington.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham, also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a regency spa town and borough which is located on the edge of the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England.

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Cheltenham Town Hall

Cheltenham Town Hall is an early-20th century assembly rooms in Cheltenham, England.

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Coney Beach Pleasure Park

Coney Beach Pleasure Park is a small amusement park in Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan in Wales, in operation since 1920.

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Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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Don Cockell

Donald John "Don" Cockell (22 September 1928 – 18 July 1983) was an English boxer.

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Dortmund

Dortmund (Düörpm:; Tremonia) is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Drill hall

A drill hall is a place such as a building or a hangar where soldiers practice and perform military drill.

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Durban

Durban (eThekwini, from itheku meaning "bay/lagoon") is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third most populous in South Africa after Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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Earls Court Exhibition Centre

Earls Court Exhibition Centre was an internationally renowned exhibition, conference and events venue in London that originally opened in 1887 and was built in 1937 in its most recent art moderne style exterior.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England, with a population of 129,800 (mid-2016 EST).

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Festhalle Frankfurt

Festhalle Frankfurt is a multi-purpose arena located in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt, officially the City of Frankfurt am Main ("Frankfurt on the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.

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Gerhard Hecht

Gerhard Hecht (March 16, 1923 in Berlin, Germany – February 21, 2005) was a boxer.

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Granby Halls

Granby Halls was a popular live music, exhibition and sports arena in Leicester, England, also notable as the long serving home of professional basketball team, the Leicester Riders, from 1980 until 1999.

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Hall

In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls.

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Harringay

Harringay (pronounced) is a district of north London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey.

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Harringay Arena

Harringay Arena was a sporting and events venue on Green Lanes in Harringay, North London, England.

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Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports.

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Hennie Quentemeijer

Heinrich ("Hennie" or "Henk") Quentemeijer (1 January 1920 in Rheine, Germany – 22 April 1974 in Sydney, Australia) was a heavyweight boxer, who represented the Netherlands at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.

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Hesse

Hesse or Hessia (Hessen, Hessian dialect: Hesse), officially the State of Hesse (German: Land Hessen) is a federal state (''Land'') of the Federal Republic of Germany, with just over six million inhabitants.

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Highfield Road

Highfield Road was a football stadium in the city of Coventry, England.

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Hull Arena

Hull Arena (originally Humberside Ice Arena and known locally as the Hull Ice Arena) is an ice rink, in the city of Kingston upon Hull, England.

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Ice rink

An ice rink (or ice skating rink) is a frozen body of water and/or hardened chemicals where people can ice skate or play winter sports.

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Islington

Islington is a district in Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.

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Jack Gardner (boxer)

Jack Gardner (6 November 1926 – 11 November 1978) was a British heavyweight boxer.

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Joe Bygraves

Joe Bygraves (26 May 1931 – 16 January 2012) was a British heavyweight boxer.

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Joe Erskine (Welsh boxer)

Joseph "Joe" Erskine (26 January 1934 – 18 February 1990) was a heavyweight boxer from the Butetown district of Cardiff, Wales.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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Johnny Houlston

Johnny Houlston (1917–1962) was a Welsh welterweight and middleweight boxer.

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Kensington

Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England.

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Kettering

Kettering is a town in Northamptonshire, England, about north of London and from Northampton, on the west side of the River Ise, a tributary of the River Nene.

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Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Kitione Lave

Lavemai Kitione Takitau (16 April 1934 – 2 June 2006), who fought under the name Kitione Lave, was a Tongan heavyweight boxer.

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Leamington Spa

Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or Leamington, is a spa town in Warwickshire, England.

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Leicester

Leicester ("Lester") is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire.

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Leicestershire

Leicestershire (abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands.

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Maindy Centre

Maindy Centre (Canolfan Maendy), which was formerly known as Maindy Stadium, now also known as Maindy Pool and Cycle Track, includes a cycle track and indoor swimming pool facility in the Maindy area of Cardiff, Wales.

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Market Harborough

Market Harborough is a market town within the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.

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Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County.

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Newport, Wales

Newport (Casnewydd) is a cathedral and university city and unitary authority area in south east Wales.

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Newtown, Powys

Newtown (Y Drenewydd) is the largest town in the county of Powys, Wales.

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Nick Wolmarans

Nicolaas "Nick" Wolmarans (5 March 1916 – 17 August 1994) was a South African boxer who competed in the 1938 British Empire Games.

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North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen,, commonly shortened to NRW) is the most populous state of Germany, with a population of approximately 18 million, and the fourth largest by area.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Nottingham Ice Stadium

The Nottingham Ice Stadium was an ice rink in Nottingham, England from 1939 - 2000.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Oxford Town Hall

Oxford Town Hall is a public building in St Aldate's Street in central Oxford, England.

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Porthcawl

Porthcawl is a town and community on the south coast of Wales in the county borough of Bridgend, west of the capital city, Cardiff and southeast of Swansea.

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Roller rink

A roller rink is a hard surface usually consisting of Hardwood, Rollerboard or Concrete used for roller skating or inline skating.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Rugby, Warwickshire

Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon.

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Sandwell

Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county in England.

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Schöneberg

is a locality of Berlin, Germany.

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Seat of local government

In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre, (in the UK or Australia) a guildhall, a Rathaus (German), or (more rarely) a municipal building, is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality.

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Smethwick

Smethwick is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands, historically in Staffordshire.

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St Andrew's (stadium)

St Andrew's, known also as St Andrew's Trillion Trophy Stadium for sponsorship reasons is an association football stadium in the Bordesley district of Birmingham, England.

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St James Park (Exeter)

St James Park is a football stadium in Exeter and is the home of Exeter City F.C. The stadium is served by the St James Park railway station which is right next to the ground (the line runs behind the Grandstand).

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Stadion Rote Erde

Stadion Rote Erde (Red Earth Stadium) is a 25,000 capacity (3,000 seated) football and athletics stadium in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Stadium

A stadium (plural stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.

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Turkish bath

A Turkish bath (hamam, translit) is a type of public bathing associated with the culture of the Ottoman Empire and more widely the Islamic world.

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Uline Arena

The Uline Arena also known as the Washington Coliseum was an indoor arena in Washington, D.C. located at 1132, 1140, and 1146 3rd Street, Northeast, Washington, D.C. It was the site of the first concert by The Beatles in the United States.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Wembley

Wembley is an area of northwest London, England, and part of the London Borough of Brent.

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Westfalenhallen

Westfalenhallen (English: Halls of Westphalia) are three multi-purpose venues located in Dortmund, Germany.

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White City Stadium

White City Stadium (originally The Great Stadium) was built in White City, London, for the 1908 Summer Olympics and is often seen as the precursor to the modern seater stadium and noted for hosting the finish of the first modern distance marathon.

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White City, London

White City is a district in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and forms the northern part of Shepherd's Bush.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Williams_(boxer)

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