Burke Emery

Burke Emery was a Canadian professional light heavyweight boxer who won the Canadian light heavyweight championship in 1960.

Early life Burke M. Emery was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, during the 1930s.

Amateur boxing career Fighting under the Irish Athletic Club, Emery became the 1953 Quebec Golden Gloves champion at 165 pounds and was a semi-finalist in 1954.

Professional career Burke Emery entered the professional ranks in 1954. His professional boxing debut took place in Montreal at the Mont St. Louis College Auditorium.

By early 1956, he was managed by Al Bachman of New York, who also handled Bob Cleroux and Rory Calhoun. In April 1956, the Montrealer scored his second TKO victory over Vern Stevenson in their third encounter. He then made his New York City debut at St. Nicholas Arena before fighting on five undercards at Madison Square Garden through 1958. Emery captured the vacant Canadian light heavyweight championship on May 1, 1960, with a seventh-round knockout victory over Toronto's Gordon Baldwin in Sherbrooke. The attendance totaled a crowd of 1,800. He lost the immediate rematch to Richardson by split decision in November 1961. In their rubber match in Halifax in June 1962, Emery lost by unanimous decision.