Tommy McGuinness

Tommy McGuinness (21 July 1937 – 9 February 2015) was a Scottish boxer who competed at the Commonwealth Games.

Biography McGuinness, born in Craigneuk, Scotland, started boxing at the Wishaw Priory Amateur Boxing before he joined the Lanarkshire Welfare ABC. A bricklayer by trade, he became a popular TV boxing star during the 1950s and 1960s.

He also boxed for the Sparta Club, was Scottish light-welterweight champion and boxed for Scotland in the 1957 European championships. for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he competed in the light-middleweight event and lost to Welshman Bill Brown in the quarter-final round.

After the Games, he remained amateur, spurning the professional ranks.