Johnny Pritchett
John 'Johnny' 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.Boxing career
As an amateur won the Amateur Boxing Association of England 1959 Junior Class-A title against B. Ford, boxing out of Bingham & District ABC, won the 1962 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Harry Dean, boxing out of Bingham & District ABC and won the 1963 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Ralph Charles, boxing out of Bingham & District ABC.
He represented England and won the silver medal at welterweight in the Boxing at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, losing to Wallace Coe of New Zealand.
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.Boxing manager
Pritchett managed; Dave Needham, Howard Hayes, Johnny Cheshire, and Dave Symonds.
