Following the name of the champion(s): Indicates the number of times the competitor has held that title at that point.
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Indicates a gap in the listing where title changes are not known.
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Title was held or changed hands no later than this. In these cases, it is known that a competitor held the title at a certain time but not when he/she won it.
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Order uncertain. Different titleholders may be known for the same year, for example, but it is not known who held the title before whom.
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Unofficial or disputable claims. These are usually matches that certainly took place, but where there is doubt that the competitor shown should be recognized as a true title holder. These listings are also italicized.
Vacates in 17 when Reeves go to the war as a corporal (The Sportsman, 18-02-20).
Dick Smith [2]
1918-02-25
London, ENG
Defeats Joe Beckett; Smith signs to challenge for the world title in 19-07 and requests NSC to postpone the British title defense; NSC declines it and strips him of the title in 19-04 (Birmingham Daily Gazette, 19-04-28).
Boy McCormick (Noel McCormick)
1919-04-28
London, ENG
Defeats Harold Rolph; vacates the title on 22-04-07 due to the injury suffered during a match against Ted Kid Lewis on 21-11-17 (Portsmouth Evening News, 22-04-08).
Jack Bloomfield
1922-05-01
London, ENG
Defeats Harry Drake; vacates in 25-02 due to illness.
Wins British Empire and British titles; vacates in 27-11 when Deniels refuses the terms offered by NSC for a match with Frank Moody (Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, 27-11-28).
Frank Moody
1927-11-27
London, ENG
Defeats Ted Moore.
Harry Crossley
1929-11-25
London, ENG
Jack Petersen
1932-05-23
London, ENG
Never defends the title; vacates in 32 upon moving up to the heavyweight class; wins the British heavyweight title on 32-07-12.
Len Harvey
1933-06-13
London, ENG
Defeats Eddie Phillips; vacates in 33 upon moving up to the heavyweight class; wins the British heavyweight title on 33-11-30.
Wins British Empire and British titles; vacates on 50-02-15 upon retirement.
Don Cockell
1950-10-17
London, ENG
Defeats Mark Hart.
Randolph Turpin
1952-06-10
London, ENG
Wins British Empire and British titles; also holds the middleweight title; NSC does not allow competitors to hold more than one British title but gives Turpin an exception for several months; Turpin chooses the middleweight title and vacates the light heavyweight title on 52-12-17 (Birmingham Daily Gazette, 52-12-18).
Dennis Powell
1953-03-26
Liverpool, ENG
Defeats George Walker.
Alex Buxton
1953-10-26
Nottingham, ENG
Randolph Turpin [2]
1955-04-26
London, ENG
Vacates on 55-11-03 upon (temporary) retirement.
Ron Barton
1956-03-13
London, ENG
Defeats Albert Finch; vacates on 56-10-12 due to eye injury.
Randolph Turpin [3]
1956-11-26
Leicester, ENG
Defeats Alex Burton; vacates on 58-10-28 upon retirement..
Chic Calderwood
1960-01-28
Paisley, SCT
Defeats Arthur Howard; killed in an automobile accident on 66-11-12.
Vacates later in the year due to a detached retina.
Tim Wood
1976-04-28
London, ENG
Defeats Phil Martin.
Bunny Johnson
1977-03-08
Wolverhampton, ENG
Vacant in 81 upon retirement.
Tom Collins
1982-03-05
London, ENG
Defeats Dennis Andries.
Dennis Andries
1984-01-26
London, ENG
Vacates on 86-09-10 upon winning WBC World Title.
Tom Collins [2]
1987-03-11
London, ENG
Defeats John Moody; vacates on 87-11-11 upon winning the EBU European Title.
Tony Wilson
1987-12-15
London, ENG
Defeats Blaine Logsdon.
Tom Collins [3]
1989-03-22
London, ENG
Vacates on 90-08-11 upon winning the EBU European Title.
Steve McCarthy
1990-10-25
London, ENG
Defeats Serg Fame; stripped of the title on 91-06-12 after McCarethy goes on strike for more pay hours before a match and is suspended for six months (Aberdeen Press and Journal, 91-06-13).
Crawford Ashley
1991-08-25
Dudley, ENG
Defeats Roy Skeldon; vacates in 92-05 (or 92-04-25?) to focus on challenging for European Title.
Maurice Core
1992-09-28
Manchester, ENG
Defeats Noel Magee; vacates on 93-12-01 (or in 94?).
