Tag: Bantamweight

#OTD in 1970 – Birth of Wayne ‘Pocket Rocket’ McCullough, bantamweight boxer; Olympic silver medalist (1992); world champion, WBC (1995), in Belfast.

07/07/2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

Wayne Pocket Rocket McCullough is a former professional boxer from Belfast, Co Antrim who competed from 1993 to 2008. He held the WBC bantamweight title from 1995 to 1997, and challenged six times for world titles at super-bantamweight and featherweight. As an amateur, McCullough represented Ireland at the 1992 Summer Olympics, winning a bantamweight silver […]

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#OTD in 1970 – Birth of Wayne ‘Pocket Rocket’ McCullough, bantamweight boxer; Olympic silver medalist (1992); world champion, WBC (1995), in Belfast.

07/07/2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Wayne Pocket Rocket McCullough is a former professional boxer from Belfast, Co Antrim who competed from 1993 to 2008. He held the WBC bantamweight title from 1995 to 1997, and challenged six times for world titles at super-bantamweight and featherweight. As an amateur, McCullough represented Ireland at the 1992 Summer Olympics, winning a bantamweight silver […]

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