Johnny Cooke

Johnny Cooke born in Bootle is an English amateur lightweight and professional light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1950s, "60s and "70s who as an amateur was runner-up for the 1958 Amateur Boxing Association of England featherweight title, against Richard McTaggart, boxing out of Maple Leaf American Broadcasting Company, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control Central Area lightweight title, beating his cousin Dave Coventry, BBBofC Central Area welterweight title, BBBofC British welterweight title, and Commonwealth welterweight title, and was a challenger for the European Boxing Union welterweight title against Carmelo Bossi, his professional fighting weight varied from 133 3⁄4 lb, id est (that is) light welterweight to 157 1⁄4 lb, id est (that is) middleweight.