Sport & Note

Joe BYGRAVES

Male

Heavyweight, Jamaica
Based in Great Britain, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Born: 26 May 1931, Kingston, Jamaica
Died: 16 January 2012
Height: 6ft 1in, mt 1,85

No amateur results

Professional record

Date	Opponent	Place	Result
1953
+ Feb. 12	Don Maxwell	Liverpool, Great Britain	KO 1
+ Mar. 12	Hugh Ferns	Liverpool, Great Britain	W 6
+ Mar. 26	Les Johnson	Liverpool, Great Britain	W 6
+ Apr. 9	Ken Wyatt	Liverpool, Great Britain	W 6
+ Apr. 23	Wally Curtis	Liverpool, Great Britain	W 8
+ May 14	Peter McMann	Liverpool, Great Britain	TKO 1
- June 9	Joe Crickmar	White City, Great Britain	KO by 2
- July 16	Joe Crickmar	Liverpool, Great Britain	TKO by 5
+ Aug. 13	Alex Roman	Liverpool, Great Britain	TKO 1
+ Sept. 3	Hugh Ferns	Liverpool, Great Britain	W 6
- Sept. 17	Cliff Purnell	Liverpool, Great Britain	L 6
+ Oct. 8	George Stern	Liverpool, Great Britain	WDQ 3
+ Oct. 20	Peter Toch	Streatham, Great Britain	TKO 3
+ Oct. 29	Cliff Purnell	Liverpool, Great Britain	KO 2
+ Nov. 10	Fred Powell	Kensington, Great Britain	TKO 7
+ Dec. 18	Simon Templar	Blackpool, Great Britain	W 8
1954
+ Feb. 11	Paddy Slavin	Liverpool, Great Britain	W 8
- Feb. 23	Albert Finch	Kensington, Great Britain	L 8
+ Mar. 12	Terry McDonald	Manchester, Great Britain	KO 1
+ Mar. 18	Joe Crickmar	Liverpool, Great Britain	W 8
+ Mar. 30	Terry O'Connor	Kensington, Great Britain	TKO 3
+ Apr. 15	Paddy Slavin	Liverpool, Great Britain	W 8
+ Apr. 30	Frank Bell	Manchester, Great Britain	W 8
+ July 2	Peter Bates	Manchester, Great Britain	W 8
+ Aug. 19	Clair Redmond	Liverpool, Great Britain	KO 3
+ Oct. 2	Paddy Slavin	Belfast, Great Britain	W 8
+ Oct. 12	Polly Smith	Kensington, Great Britain	W 8
+ Oct. 25	Fred Powell	Carmarthen, Great Britain	W 8
- Nov. 4	Polly Smith	Liverpool, Great Britain	L 8
1955
- Apr. 18	Henry Cooper	Walworth, Great Britain	L 8
+ May 5	Eddie Hearn	Liverpool, Great Britain	KO 4
+ June 6	Peter Bates	Nottingham, Great Britain	W 8
+ Sept. 4	Hugo Salfeld	Dortmund, Germany	TKO 5
+ Sept. 19	Kitione Lave	Birmingham, Great Britain	W 8
- Oct. 31	Franco Cavicchi	Bologna, Italy	LDQ 8
+ Dec. 17	Aldo Pellegrini	Milano, Italy	KO 1
1956
+ Jan. 23	Uber Bacilieri	Bologna, Italy	W 10
- Feb. 24	Ingemar Johansson	Gothenburg, Sweden	L 8
+ Apr. 24	Jack Gardner	Kensington, Great Britain	TKO 2
+ May 7	Marcel Limage	Cardiff, Great Britain	TKO 8
+ June 26	Kitione Lave	Wembley, Great Britain	W 15
vacant Commonwealth Heavyweight Title
- Sept. 24	Wayne Bethea	New York, USA	TKO by 5
+ Nov. 16	Johnny Williams	Manchester, Great Britain	TKO 6
1957
+ Feb. 19	Henry Cooper	Kensington, Great Britain	KO 9
Commonwealth Heavyweight Title
= May 27	Dick Richardson	Cardiff, Great Britain	Draw 15
Commonwealth Heavyweight Title
- June 15	Heinz Neuhaus	Dortmund, Germany	LDQ 6
+ Sept. 18	Kitione Lave	Pontypridd, Great Britain	W 10
- Nov. 25	Joe Erskine	Leicester, Great Britain	L 15
Commonwealth Heavyweight Title
1958
+ Feb. 10	Joey Armstrong	Leeds, Great Britain	TKO 3
- Apr. 21	Willie Pastrano	Leicester, Great Britain	L 10
- Nov. 24	Zora Folley	Leicester, Great Britain	KO by 9
1959
+ Mar. 2	Feleti Fred Kaho	Middlesbrough, Great Britain	TKO 7
- Apr. 19	Giacomo Bozzano	Milano, Italy	L 10
- Aug. 25	Roy Harris	Houston, USA	L 10
1960
- May 18	Joe Hemphill	Chicago, USA	L 8
- June 27	Franco Cavicchi	Bologna, Italy	L 10
1961
+ Nov. 3	Gerhard Zech	Hamburg, Germany	TKO 4
+ Dec. 4	Alex Barrow	Leicester, Great Britain	KO 2
1962
- Feb. 9	Ingemar Johansson	Gothenburg, Sweden	TKO by 7
- Sept. 22	Wayne Bethea	Kingston, Jamaica	L 10
- Nov. 30	Karl Mildenberger	Frankfurt, Germany	L 3
1963
- Apr. 8	Wim Snoek	Rotterdam, Netherlands	L 10
- Apr. 21	Bill Nielsen	Stockholm, Sweden	TKO by 6
+ June 7	Franco De Piccoli	Roma, Italy	KO 5
- Aug. 22	Ray Shiel	Liverpool, Great Britain	LDQ 5
- Sept. 13	Santo Amonti	Roma, Italy	L 10
- Nov. 8	Gerhard Zech	Schoeneberg , Germany	TKO by 9
1964
- Jan. 28	Billy Walker	Kensington, Great Britain	LDQ 6
1965
+ Feb. 13	Albert Westphal	Hamburg, Germany	KO 1
- Mar. 6	Gerhard Zech	Hannover, Germany	L 10
- Dec. 7	George Chuvalo	Kensington, Great Britain	L 10
1966 Inactive
1967
- Mar. 20	Eduardo Corletti	Mayfair, Great Britain	L 10

Summary

Total bouts: 72, Won: 42 (22 inside the limit), Lost: 29 (7 inside the limit), Draw: 1, NC: 0