Career
Bodell started out as a Light heavyweight, winning the 1961 American Bar Association championships and a bronze medal at the European amateur championships the same year. Bodell regained the title a year later by out-pointing Joe Bugner. He lost the European title in 1971 after a defeat by Spaniard José Manuel Urtaín, and after losing both his British and Commonwealth titles to a second-round knockout by Danny McAlinden the following year, he retired from professional boxing.
Bodell"s final record was 58 wins (including 31 by knockout) and 13 losses.
Jack Bodell is mentioned in the "Boxing Tonight" sketch in episode 37 of Monty Python"s Flying Circus, in which he (played by Nosher Powell) fights Sir Kenneth Clark (played by Graham Chapman).
