Les McAteer

Les McAteer (born 19 August 1945 in Birkenhead) is an English amateur and professional light middle/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1960 Schools Intermediate title, boxing out of Birkenhead, and won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1962 Junior Class-B title against K. Kemp (West Ham Boys' Club), boxing out of Willaston Birkenhead ABC, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Central Area middleweight title, BBBofC British middleweight title, and Commonwealth middleweight title, ( between 14 July 1969 - 12 May 1970) and was a challenger for the BBBofC British middleweight title, and British Commonwealth middleweight title against Johnny Pritchett, and European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title against Tom Bogs, his professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. light middleweight to , i.e. light heavyweight. Les McAteer was managed by Johnny Campbell (circa-1905 — 2 May 1994 (aged 89)).

Genealogical information Les McAteer is the younger brother of Brian McAteer (birth registered January→March in Birkenhead district), Niel McAteer (birth registered January→March in Birkenhead district), and the boxer Gordon McAteer (birth registered April→June in Birkenhead district), the older brother of William McAteer (birth registered July→September in Birkenhead district), and Patricia McAteer (birth registered October→December in Birkenhead district), the cousin of the boxer Pat McAteer, and relative of association (soccer) footballer Jason McAteer.