Lester Ellis
Australian boxer
レスター・エリス
- Born
- 15 March 1965, Blackpool
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Sport
- boxing
- Discipline
- welterweight, lightweight
- Occupation
- boxer
Lester Ellis (born 15 March 1965) is a British-born Australian former professional boxer. He is one-time world champion and four-times minor titles winner, having also held the Australian and Commonwealth (twice) titles.
At the age of 19, in 1985, Ellis fought and beat then-reigning IBF super featherweight champion Hwan-Kil Yuh over fifteen rounds. In 1993 he won the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) welterweight title against Rocky Berg Archived 25 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Ellis faced and defeated Al Coquilla Archived 30 March 2015 at the Wayback Machinein 1994 for the vacant IBO light welterweight title. Ellis went on to win another two IBO world titles, both in different weight divisions. One in 1995 against Amado Cabato Archived 16 April 2015 at the Wayback Machineat lightweight and another at light middleweight against Eric Alexander Archived 16 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
Awards and honours
- IBF World Junior Lightweight Champion
- IBO World Lightweight Champion
- IBO World Super Lightweight Champion
- IBO World Super Welterweight Champion
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q133591 (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.