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Isaac Ward

English boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ16216829
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Isaac "Argy" Ward (born 7 April 1977) is an English amateur featherweight and professional super bantamweight boxer.

Ward was born in Darlington. As an amateur, he was runner-up for the 2000 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) featherweight title, against David Mullholland (Salisbury ABC), boxing out of Darlington ABC, and as a professional won the Commonwealth super bantamweight title. He was a challenger for the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British bantamweight title, against Martin Power.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-04-07. For this dossier, Isaac, Ward and English is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Isaac Ward” 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.