Jimmy Carruthers

Jimmy Carruthers
Carruthers weighing
Data
Birth Name	James William Carruthers
Weight class	Bantamweight
nationality	Australian
birthday	July 5, 1929
place of birth	Paddington , Australia
Date of death	August 15, 1990
Place of death	Narrabeen , Sydney, New South Wales
style	Southpaw
size	1.68 meters
Combat Statistics
Struggles	25th
Victories	21st
Knockout victories	13
Defeats	4th

Jimmy Carruthers (born July 5, 1929 in Paddington , Sydney , New South Wales , † August 15, 1990 in Narrabeen , Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian boxer . He was world champion of professional bantamweight boxers .

Career

Jimmy Carruthers was one of six children in a family who immigrated from England . He attended Glenmore Road Public School in Paddington and soon became interested in boxing. He found very good training conditions in the Woolloomooloo Rotary Police Club , where his outstanding talent for this sport was discovered and promoted accordingly. As an adult he fought in bantamweight and was very tall for this weight class with 1.68 meters and also had a correspondingly large range.

Career as an amateur boxer

At the age of 18, Jimmy Carruthers became the Australian bantamweight champion in 1947. In the final he defeated his opponent Spencer Driver on points. In 1948 he qualified for the Australian boxing team that was sent to the Olympic Games in London . In the Olympic boxing tournament he won the bantamweight first over Fred Daigle from Canada by disqualification in the 2nd round and over Arnoldo Pares from Argentina on points. In the fight against Arnoldo Pares, Jimmy Carruthers unfortunately suffered such a serious eyebrow injury that he could not compete in the quarter-finals against Tibor Csik from Hungary. He came in 5th place.

Career as a professional boxer

In 1950 Jimmy Carruthers became a professional boxer. His manager became Dr. Jim McGirr and his trainer was "Silent" Bill McConnell. He fought his first fight on August 15, 1950 in Sydney. In the bantamweight he beat his Australian opponent Ted Fitzgerald by technical knockout in the 5th round. After seven more fights in Sydney and Melbourne, all of which he won, he was on May 14, 1951 in Sydney with a point victory after 15 rounds over Elley Bennett Australian bantamweight champion. He also won the following fights and at the end of November 1951 was ranked number 1 in the world rankings by the renowned boxing journal "The Ring", ahead of Peter Keenan (boxer) , Luis Romero (boxer ), Maurice Sandeyron and Jean Sneyers . The world champion at that time was the South African Vic Toweel .

On November 15, 1952, he got the chance to fight against Vic Toweel in Johannesburg for the world title and the Commonwealth (British Empire) bantamweight title as a challenger. He attacked his opponent from the first second of the fight with a series of hooks on his left flapping hand, which the reigning world champion Vic Toweel was unable to cope with and was knocked out in the first round and thus the new world champion in bantamweight. On March 21, 1953, again in Johannesburg, the two boxers took revenge. It was about both titles again. This time too, Jimmy Carruthers landed a knockout victory, which he only succeeded in the 10th round.

On November 13, 1953, Jimmy Carruthers successfully defended the world title in Sydney with a clear victory on points over the American Pappy Gault . The next title defense took place on May 2, 1954 in Bangkok. He boxed against the Thai Chamroen Songkitrat . The fight took place in an open air sports stadium. During the fight it suddenly began to rain like a torrent, whereupon both fighters took off their shoes and continued to fight barefoot. After 12 rounds, referee Bill Henneberry, who had sole decision-making authority, declared Jimmy Carruther the winner with 7: 5 round wins and thus successful defending champion.

Surprisingly for everyone, Jimmy Carruthers retired from boxing after this fight. He was barely 25 years old and had won all 19 professional fights that he had contested up to then. He bought a hotel and ran other businesses as well.

In 1961 he started a comeback. He prepared intensively for it. His fitness trainer was z. B. the world-famous athletics trainer Percy Cerutty . Between September 11, 1961, the day he lost on points to Italian Aldo Pravisani in Sydney, and June 18, 1962, the day he had the last fight of his career against Jimmy in Wellington, New Zealand Cassidy lost by disqualification in the 8th round, he played a total of six fights, of which he won only two.

After that he returned to his business and worked as a referee for a few years. Jimmy Carruthers died at the age of 61 after a long and serious illness.

Web links

Commons : Jimmy Carruthers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jimmy Carruthers in the BoxRec database
• Jimmy Carruthers in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Fights between Jimmy Carruthers and Vic Toweel