Archie Sexton
Archibald Ernest Sexton GM (3 April 1908 – 11 July 1957) was an English professional boxer who began his career at featherweight in 1925 and finished as a middleweight in 1936. He had at least 222 professional contests,[1] including one for the British middleweight title in 1933, where he lost by a tenth round technical knockout to Jock McAvoy.[2]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Sexton was born at Bethnal Green. He took part in the world's first televised boxing match, a six-round exhibition against Laurie Raiteri in London on 22 August 1933.[3] The loss of the sight of his left eye – which occurred during a boxing match – forced him to retire from boxing in 1936, although he later worked as a BBBofC referee. During the Second World War he served as a Police War Reserve Constable, and in 1944 he was awarded the George Medal for his part in rescuing two men and a woman trapped in an air-raid shelter underneath Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.[4]
He died in New Zealand on 11 July 1957 from a stroke, aged 49.
Family
[edit | edit source]His son Dave had success in football, managing Chelsea and Manchester United. He also had another son Terence Sexton . His brother James, another professional boxer, fought under the alias Jim Blake. His great granddaughter through marriage is professional undefeated female boxer Ramla Ali
References
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- Bibliography
External links
[edit | edit source]- Boxing record for Archie Sexton from BoxRec (registration required) Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (record currently incomplete)
- 1908 births
- 1957 deaths
- Recipients of the George Medal
- English male boxers
- Featherweight boxers
- Lightweight boxers
- Welterweight boxers
- Middleweight boxers
- People from Bethnal Green
- Boxers from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- 20th-century British police officers
- Metropolitan Police officers
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- English boxing biography stubs