Peter Keenan (boxer)
Peter Keenan was a Scottish amateur flyweight and professional fly/bantam/featherweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s, who as an amateur was runner-up in the 1948 Amateur Boxing Association of England light middleweight title, against Henry Carpenter, boxing out of Anderston ABC, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control Scottish Area bantamweight title, BBBofC British bantamweight title, European Boxing Union bantamweight title, and British Empire bantamweight title, and was a challenger for the World Bantamweight Title against Vic Toweel, his professional fighting weight varied from, i.e. flyweight to, i.e. featherweight.
After his boxing career, Peter Keenan became a successful dealer in property and owned Peter Keenan's Stable Bar at 26 Lancefield Quay, Anderston and the Sportsman in Glasgow. The Stable Bar was the first in Glasgow to be granted an all-day licence in 1978.
