Wally Thom

Wally Thom born in Birkenhead, Merseyside an English amateur middleweight and professional welter/middleweight boxer of the 1940s and "50s, and referee of the 1950s, "60s and "70s, who as an amateur was runner-up for the 1945 Amateur Boxing Association of England middleweight title, against Randolph Turpin, boxing out of Army American Broadcasting Company, was runner-up for the 1949 Amateur Boxing Association of England middleweight title, against Alan Buxton, boxing out of Birkenhead American Broadcasting Company, and won a silver medal at middleweight in the 1947 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Dublin, Ireland, losing to gold medal winner Aimé-Joseph Escudie of France, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control Central Area welterweight title, BBBofC British welterweight title, European Boxing Union welterweight title, and British Empire welterweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 145 1⁄4 lb, id est (that is) welterweight to 154 lb, id est (that is) middleweight.