MELBOURNE, Australia — Former boxing world champion Johnny Famechon has died in Melbourne after a prolonged sickness. He was 77.
The Sport Australia Corridor of Fame introduced Famechon’s loss of life in a press release on Thursday. Famechon was struck by a automotive whereas jogging in 1991 in Sydney which brought on him to undergo a stroke and resulted in an acquired mind damage.
The Australian boxer’s most memorable world title victory was his WBC factors choice win towards Cuban Jose Legra at London’s Albert Corridor in 1969. Famechon boxed professionally for greater than 20 years and had a report of 56 wins — 20 by knockout — six attracts and 5 losses.
Famechon defended his featherweight world title towards Japan’s Masahiko Harada, higher generally known as Preventing Harada, six months after beating Legra and gained in a controversial factors choice. Within the rematch for the world title, Famechon knocked out Harada within the 14th spherical in Tokyo.
Famechon tried to defend his WBC title in Might 1970 in Rome towards Mexican Vicente Saldivar however misplaced the struggle. He retired from boxing quickly after on the age of 24.
Born Jean-Pierre Famechon in 1945, he moved to Australia from France along with his household on the age of 5.
“Johnny Famechon was probably the most standard Australian boxers of all time,” Sport Australia Corridor of Fame chairman John Bertrand mentioned. “Johnny was our humble, skillful world champion, displaying the essence of how we see our heroes. He was described as poetry in movement, a grasp craftsman.”
