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Gary Jones (boxer)

retired boxer who competed for England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ85762788 ↗
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Gary Jones (born 1975) is a male retired boxer who competed for England.

Boxing career

Jones was a double English National Champion in 1994 and 1999 after winning the prestigious ABA light flyweight title, boxing out of the Sefton ABC and then Towerhill ABC.

He represented England in the light flyweight (-48 kg) division and won a bronze medal, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

He also won the Scottish ABA title and turned professional in 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gary Jones (boxer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.