Les McAteer


Les McAteer is an English amateur and professional light middle/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur won the Amateur Boxing Association of England 1960 Schools Intermediate title, boxing out of Birkenhead, and won the Amateur Boxing Association of England 1962 Junior Class-B title against K. Kemp, boxing out of Willaston Birkenhead ABC, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control Central Area middleweight title, BBBofC British middleweight title, and Commonwealth middleweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British middleweight title, and British Commonwealth middleweight title against Johnny Pritchett, and European Boxing Union middleweight title against Tom Bogs, his professional fighting weight varied from, i.e. light middleweight to, i.e. light heavyweight. Les McAteer was managed by Johnny Campbell.

Genealogical information

Les McAteer is the younger brother of Brian McAteer, Niel McAteer, and the boxer Gordon McAteer, the older brother of William McAteer, and Patricia McAteer, the cousin of the boxer Pat McAteer, and relative of association footballer Jason McAteer.