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Evan Armstrong

Scottish boxer

埃文·阿姆斯特朗

Born
15 December 1943, Ayr
Died
8 July 2017
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Sport
boxing
Discipline
super featherweight, featherweight, bantamweight
Occupation
boxer

Evan Armstrong (15 February 1943 – 8 July 2017) was a Scottish professional bantam/feather/super featherweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s, who won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Scottish Area bantamweight title, BBBofC Scottish Area featherweight title, BBBofC British featherweight title, and Commonwealth featherweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British bantamweight title against Alan Rudkin, and European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight title against José Legrá, his professional fighting weight varied from 116+3⁄4 lb (53.0 kg; 8 st 4.8 lb), i.e. bantamweight to 127+1⁄2 lb (57.8 kg; 9 st 1.5 lb), i.e. super featherweight. Armstrong had Alzheimer's disease later in life and died at the age of 74 in late 2017.

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Facts from Wikidata Q16106166 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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