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Maurice Cullen - British Champion Boxer - Shotton (shot0127)

WI Float At Shotton Carnival
Mr and Mrs Michael Henderson, Miners Villas, George Street

Photograph of a young man stripped to the waist wearing boxing shorts with the initials M. C. on them and with protective bandages on his hands, which he is holding clenched at shoulder height; he is wearing a belt, presumably a trophy, with cameos and an heraldic beast on it, presumably the British Lightweight Trophy ; the young man has been identified as Maurice Cullen, British Champion Boxer; he was British Lightweight Champion five times until he was defeated by Ken Buchanan in 1968; the photograph has the signature of a photographer in Sunderland

Maurice Cullen - British Champion Boxer - Shotton

Photograph of a young man stripped to the waist wearing boxing shorts with the initials M. C. on them and with protective bandages on his hands, which he is holding clenched at shoulder height; he is wearing a belt, presumably a trophy, with cameos and an heraldic beast on it, presumably the British Lightweight Trophy ; the young man has been identified as Maurice Cullen, British Champion Boxer; he was British Lightweight Champion five times until he was defeated by Ken Buchanan in 1968; the photograph has the signature of a photographer in Sunderland

Date: 1960 - 1969

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