Episode 3394
Pat O'Keeffe
Thu, 2026-Aug-20 00:35 UTC
Length - 1:59
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The featured article for Thursday, 20 August 2026, is Pat O'Keeffe.
Pat O'Keeffe (17 March 1883 – 16 August 1960) was a British professional boxer who twice held the British middleweight title. His professional career spanned sixteen years, from 1902 to 1918, and took him to the United States and Australia between 1907 and 1910. In 1914, he challenged Georges Carpentier in a contest billed as the European heavyweight championship and was knocked out in two rounds.
During the First World War, he joined the British Army and served with the 1st Surrey Rifles, combining recruiting duties with physical training. In 1918, he won the Lonsdale Belt outright by defeating Bandsman Blake at the National Sporting Club (NSC) during a German air raid on London, becoming British middleweight champion and the first boxer to hold the middleweight Lonsdale Belt outright.
Boxing historian John Harding described O'Keeffe as one of the notable characters of his era while Arthur Frederick Bettinson, the NSC's manager, wrote that he deserved "pride of place" among the middleweights of his time, if only for his force of personality. After retiring from the ring, O'Keeffe worked as a publican and boxing trainer, and served on the NSC-linked British Boxing Board of Control announced in 1918.
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