Peter Keenan was a Scottish amateur flyweight and professional fly/bantam/featherweight boxer of the 1940s and "50s, 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 American Broadcasting Company, 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 112 lb, id est (that is) flyweight to 121 lb, id est (that is) featherweight.