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Jim Watt (boxer)

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Jim Watt MBE (born 18 July 1948) is a Scottish former boxer and commentator who became world champion in the lightweight division when Roberto Durán left the title vacant in 1979 and the WBC had him fight Alfredo Pitalua. [1]

36 relations: ABA Championships, Alan Minter, Alexis Argüello, BBC Radio Scotland, Boxing, Bridgeton, Glasgow, British Boxing Board of Control, Charlie Nash, Glasgow, Howard Davis Jr., ITV (TV network), John H. Stracey, Ken Buchanan, Kirkintilloch, Lightweight, List of British lightweight boxing champions, List of lightweight boxing champions, List of WBC world champions, Maryhill, Mexico City, Order of the British Empire, Possilpark, Reg Gutteridge, Roberto Durán, Scottish people, Sean O'Grady (boxer), Sky Sports, Still Game, The Big Fight Live, The Daily Telegraph, The Ring (magazine), The Ring: Boxing the 20th Century, Willie Reilly, World Boxing Council, 1968 Summer Olympics, 60 Minute Makeover.

ABA Championships

The Matchroom Boxing Foundation ABA Championships is the premier tournament hosted annually by the Amateur Boxing Association of England.

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Alan Minter

Alan Minter (born 17 August 1951) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1972 to 1981.

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Alexis Argüello

Alexis Argüello (April 19, 1952 – July 1, 2009) was a Nicaraguan professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 1995, and later became a politician.

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BBC Radio Scotland

BBC Radio Scotland is BBC Scotland's national English-language radio network.

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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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Bridgeton, Glasgow

Bridgeton (Brigtoun, Baile na Drochaid) is a district to the east of Glasgow city centre.

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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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Charlie Nash

Charlie Nash (born 1951 in Derry, Northern Ireland), is a retired boxer.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Howard Davis Jr.

Howard Edward Davis Jr. (February 14, 1956 – December 30, 2015) was an American amateur and professional boxer.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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John H. Stracey

John H. Stracey (born 22 September 1950 in Bethnal Green, England) is a former professional boxer who was World Welterweight Champion.

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Ken Buchanan

Ken Buchanan MBE (born 28 June 1945) is a British retired professional boxer and the former Undisputed World Lightweight ChampionGutteridge, Reg.

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Kirkintilloch

Kirkintilloch (Cair Cheann Tulaich) is a town and former royal burgh in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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Lightweight

Lightweight is a weight class in combat sports and rowing.

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List of British lightweight boxing champions

List of British lightweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the British lightweight championship.

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List of lightweight boxing champions

This is a list of world lightweight boxing champions by organization, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations.

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List of WBC world champions

This is a list of WBC world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC).

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Maryhill

Maryhill (Maryhull, Cnoc Mhoire) is an area of the City of Glasgow in Scotland.

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Mexico City

Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Possilpark

Possilpark is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow, situated north of the River Clyde.

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Reg Gutteridge

Reginald George Gutteridge, (29 March 1924 – 24 January 2009) was a British boxing journalist and television commentator.

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Roberto Durán

Roberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001.

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Scottish people

The Scottish people (Scots: Scots Fowk, Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich), or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged from an amalgamation of two Celtic-speaking peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or Alba) in the 9th century. Later, the neighbouring Celtic-speaking Cumbrians, as well as Germanic-speaking Anglo-Saxons and Norse, were incorporated into the Scottish nation. In modern usage, "Scottish people" or "Scots" is used to refer to anyone whose linguistic, cultural, family ancestral or genetic origins are from Scotland. The Latin word Scoti originally referred to the Gaels, but came to describe all inhabitants of Scotland. Considered archaic or pejorative, the term Scotch has also been used for Scottish people, primarily outside Scotland. John Kenneth Galbraith in his book The Scotch (Toronto: MacMillan, 1964) documents the descendants of 19th-century Scottish pioneers who settled in Southwestern Ontario and affectionately referred to themselves as 'Scotch'. He states the book was meant to give a true picture of life in the community in the early decades of the 20th century. People of Scottish descent live in many countries other than Scotland. Emigration, influenced by factors such as the Highland and Lowland Clearances, Scottish participation in the British Empire, and latterly industrial decline and unemployment, have resulted in Scottish people being found throughout the world. Scottish emigrants took with them their Scottish languages and culture. Large populations of Scottish people settled the new-world lands of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. Canada has the highest level of Scottish descendants per capita in the world and the second-largest population of Scottish descendants, after the United States. Scotland has seen migration and settlement of many peoples at different periods in its history. The Gaels, the Picts and the Britons have their respective origin myths, like most medieval European peoples. Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxons, arrived beginning in the 7th century, while the Norse settled parts of Scotland from the 8th century onwards. In the High Middle Ages, from the reign of David I of Scotland, there was some emigration from France, England and the Low Countries to Scotland. Some famous Scottish family names, including those bearing the names which became Bruce, Balliol, Murray and Stewart came to Scotland at this time. Today Scotland is one of the countries of the United Kingdom, and the majority of people living there are British citizens.

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Sean O'Grady (boxer)

Sean O'Grady (born February 10, 1959) is the former World Boxing Association (WBA) Lightweight Champion of the World, and currently an American commercial realtor.

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Sky Sports

Sky Sports is a group of sports television channels operated by the satellite pay-TV company Sky plc.

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Still Game

Still Game is a BAFTA award-winning Scottish sitcom, produced by The Comedy Unit with BBC Scotland.

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The Big Fight Live

The Big Fight Live is a British boxing television programme, broadcast by ITV Sport regularly from 1984-1995 and again from 2005-2010.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Ring (magazine)

The Ring (often called The Ring magazine) is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine.

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The Ring: Boxing the 20th Century

The Ring: Boxing the 20th Century is a book that was published in 1993 by The Ring magazine editors Steve Farhood and Stanley Weston.

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Willie Reilly

Willie Reilly (born 25 March 1947) is a British former boxer who was British lightweight champion in 1972.

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World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council (WBC) is one of four major organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the International Boxing Federation (IBF), World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) and one of the two original sanctioning bodies (along with the WBA).

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1968 Summer Olympics

The 1968 Summer Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico, in October 1968.

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60 Minute Makeover

Peter Andre's 60 Minute Makeover (or more commonly known as 60 Minute Makeover) is a British daytime home interior design television programme broadcast on Quest Red in the United Kingdom.

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References

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

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