Lawrence Austin
Australian boxer
- Born
- 22 January 1956, Warrnambool
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Sport
- boxing
- Discipline
- middleweight, light middleweight, welterweight, light welterweight
- Occupation
- boxer
Lawrence "Baby Casius" Austin (born 17 January 1955 in Warrnambool) is an Australian Aboriginal professional super feather/light/light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the West Australia State welterweight title, West Australia State light middleweight title, Victoria State light middleweight title, Australian lightweight title, Australian light welterweight title, Australian welterweight title, South Seas Light Middleweight Title, and Commonwealth light welterweight title (twice), and was a challenger for the Australian light middleweight title against Russell Sands[1] Archived 15 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, and Commonwealth light welterweight title against Jeff Malcolm, his professional fighting weight varied from 128 lb (58 kg; 9 st 2 lb), i.e. super featherweight to 159 lb (72 kg; 11 st 5 lb), i.e. middleweight. He was inducted into the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008.
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Facts from Wikidata Q16146742 (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.