Boxing at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Boxing at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was the sixth appearance of the Boxing at the Commonwealth Games. The events were held in Cardiff, Wales, and featured contests in ten weight classes.

The boxing events were held in the Sophia Gardens Pavilion. South Africa topped the boxing medal table by virtue of winning four gold medals.

Medal table

Medallists Flyweight , Bantamweight , Featherweight , Lightweight , Light Welterweight , Welterweight , Light Middleweight , Middleweight , Light Heavyweight , Heavyweight ,

Results There was no Welsh fighter in the light-welterweight category after Bobby Bown failed to secure leave from work and his replacement Cedric Williams was subsequently unfit to start. Some weight classes required both a first round and quarter-finals stage before the medal fights took place.

First round and quarter-finals Weight Winner Loser ScoreFlyweight 51 kg Walter Henry Lester J. Shaether stopped 2nd Jackie Brown A. Du Mont points Tommy Bache Walter Henry KO 1st Peter Lavery Orizu Obilaso points Donald Braithwaite William. A. Pretorius pointsBantamweight 54 kg Kai Yip John Allen points Oliver Taylor S. O. Laguda points Howard Winstone Peter Benneyworth points Oliver Taylor Kai Yip points Freddie Owen J. L. van Biljon points Dickie Hanna Abe Bekker stopped 2ndFeatherweight 57 kg Walter Robert Taylor F. Quartey points Roy Beaman Robert W. McEwan points J. J. Bekker I. A. Jones stopped 1st Malcolm Collins Maurice Purton points Gert Johannes Coetzee George Drummond points John McClory J. J. Bekker points Walter Robert Taylor Roy Beaman points Lightweight 60 kg Dick McTaggart John Seymour Leckie stopped 3rd Jim Jordan Bernard Robson points Johnny Cooke Sunder Rao points Paddy Donovan C. Sam pointsLight-welterweight 63.5 kg Joey Jacobs I. K. Obita KO 3rd Bobby Kane Chandrasena Jayasuriya points G. R. Smith Graham Finlay points Henry Loubscher V. Fernandes points Bobby Kane G. R. Smith points Joey Jacobs Clement Quartey points Raymond Galante George Turmel pointsWelterweight 67 kg Joseph Greyling Billy Phillips points Thomas Kawere M. Uzubu stopped 3rd Bertie Scott Joseph Larty points Brian Nancurvis William John Fitzpatrick pointsLight-middleweight 71 kg Tommy McGuiness Dick Turpin stopped 3rd Stuart Pearson Jackie B. Osborne points Kevin Hogarth Frank Nyangweso points Bill Brown Alhassan Brimah stopped 1st Grant Webster L. Samuels sopped 1st Stuart Pearson Kevin Hogarth points James Arthur Walters C. Afodu stopped 2nd Bill Brown Tommy McGuiness stopped 3rdMiddleweight 75 kg Terry Milligan Bevin R. Weir disq 2nd Hari Singh Glyn Waters KO 2nd Terry Milligan Hari Singh w/o Phillipus Lodewyk du Plessis S. Osei points Robert Piau Alistair McKenzie stopped 2nd Johnny Caiger Peter Odhiambo pointsLight heavyweight 81 kg Tony Madigan Edward Morrison points Ossie Higgins Frank E. Noneley stopped 3rd Willie Bannon Joe Leeming stopped 2nd Gerhardus Jacobus De Bruyn bye Heavyweight 91 kg Daniel Bekker Stan P. Renaud stopped 1st David Thomas Leslie Osman Peach points Roger Pleace Angus Thomson points Gbadegesin Salawu bye

Semi-finals Weight Winner Loser ScoreFlyweight Brown Braithwaite points Bache Lavery pointsBantamweight Winstone Hanna points O. Taylor Owen pointsFeatherweight W. Taylor McClory points Collins Coetzee pointsLightweight McTaggart Donovan points Jordan Cooke pointsLight-welterweight Loubscher Galante stopped 2nd Kane Jacobs pointsWelterweight Greyling Nancurvis points Kawere Scott pointsLight-middleweight Webster Walters points Pearson Brown pointsMiddleweight Milligan Caiger points du Plessis Piau pointsLight heavyweight Madigan de Bruyn points Higgins Bannon pointsHeavyweight Bekker Salawu stopped 2nd Thomas Pleace disq 3rd

Finals Weight Winner Loser ScoreFlyweight Brown Bache pointsBantamweight Winstone O. Taylor pointsFeatherweight W. Taylor Collins pointsLightweight McTaggart Jordan pointsLight-welterweight Loubscher Kane points Welterweight Greyling Kawere pointsLight-middleweight Webster Pearson pointsMiddleweight Milligan du Plessis pointsLight heavyweight Madigan Higgins pointsHeavyweight Bekker Thomas points

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