Clinton
McKenzie comes from a renowned fighting family, which has achieved
accolades over the past three decades as the most successful boxing
family in the sport’s history. Between them, Clinton and
his brothers Dudley, Winston and Duke have won Championship Titles
and Belts at all levels of the sport – from Amateur to Professional,
and on the National, European and World stage. They are featured
in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Clinton and his brothers all started training at a young age,
and are now – some of them beyond their half-centuries –
working as boxing and fitness trainers, TV analysts, accomplished
businessmen, and successful entrepreneurs. They are well known
among the boxing fraternity, and highly respected for their individual
bravery in the ring. Children especially adore their charisma
and camaraderie, and the brothers can interact at all levels –
one a one-on-one basis or as a family team. Here are some individual
details:
DUKE
McKENZIE
Three times World Boxing Champion at different weights, Duke was
born in 1963 in Croydon, South London – the youngest of
five brothers. During an illustrious Amateur career, he represented
his country on many occasions and won the highly prestigious London
ABA Flyweight title. Duke naturally turned professional and in
1982 won his debut fight at Wembley, marking the beginning of
the most distinguished boxing career Britain has ever known since
‘The Great Bob Fitzsimmons’ at the turn of the country.
Now retired from boxing, Duke is now a television commentator
and trains people part-time at his own gym in Croydon.
Winston
won four Surrey Schools Titles as an Amateur, from the age of
14. As a Senior he went on to become National Amateur Champion
aged 18 before turning professional shortly before his 19th birthday.
Sadly Winston then sustained a detached retina in his left eye,
and subsequently underwent what was to become the first of many
operations. After eight years of absence from boxing, Winston
made a comeback to the ring in 1982, when he fought and beat George
Scofield, the then Midlands Light-Welterweight Champion, at Liverpool
Stadium. But with further eye problems Winston was once again
forced to retire. Today, Winston is a director of the Croydon
Sports Partnership, which stages the Greater London Games each
year, and is a force to be reckoned with in local politics, standing
as a candidate in the forthcoming London mayoral elections.
DUDLEY
McKENZIE
1961-1995
Seven-times All England Schools Champion.
