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Evans' father was a former youth and miners' boxing champion and his uncle Gordon had owned
Tonypandy Boxing Club. Evans' younger brother Wayne had also taken up the sport but Ralph preferred racing pigeons in his early teens. However, when his father later founded and ran the Waterlooville Amateur
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Olympic defeat, Evans chose to retire from boxing soon after the tournament at the age of 19. He fought only once more, stepping in at late notice when a fighter pulled out of an event organised by his father's boxing club. Evans later worked at the club, coaching
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but the victory proved unpopular with some authorities who had lined up Abrams as the captain of the
British Boxing team at the event. A rematch was ordered only for Evans to win again, this time after Abrams suffered a cut over his eye. In the first round at the Olympics, Evans was drawn against
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in Norway. However, Evans' defeat to
Cowdell was deemed so close that he was also offered a place. During the scholarship, Evans lived with Bugner's mother. On his return to Britain, Evans became the first Welsh Amateur Boxing Association (ABA) champion of the newly created
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Boxing Club in the town, Ralph began to take an interest in the sport. In his first year as an amateur, Evans fought 27 times and reached the
British Schools' final but was disqualified when the referee deemed a punch that floored his opponent was a
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in the second round, claiming a 5–0 points victory in a performance that was described as "the purest boxing exhibition of the tournament." He repeated the feat in the quarter-final by defeating
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National Association of Boy's Clubs' final but suffered a close points defeat. The prize for winning the tournament was a training scholarship with heavyweight
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his younger brother Wayne during his professional career which culminated in a
British bantamweight title defeat to
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425:Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen;
376:. Amateur Boxing Association. Archived from
349:"Remembering the Might of Wayne the Wallop!"
117:Ralph Evans was one of six children born in
656:Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
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546:"British go out as warning thwarts Minter"
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299:"Cool Evans through to semi-final"
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543:Samuel, John (9 September 1972).
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296:Railton, Jim (8 September 1972).
646:Olympic boxers for Great Britain
435:Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
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600:The Boxers of Wales: Rhondda
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676:Sportspeople from Tonypandy
661:Olympic medalists in boxing
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347:Hind, Bob (21 March 2015).
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374:"ABA 1971 Roll of honour"
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671:Welsh Olympic medallists
495:"Evans is third through"
209:Evans dominated Chilean
127:Waterlooville, Hampshire
18:Wales boxer (born 1953)
598:Jones, Gareth (2012),
602:, St David's Press,
439:Sports Reference LLC
229:won a silver medal.
223:2012 Summer Olympics
198:18-yeat old Mexican
187:1972 Summer Olympics
181:1972 Summer Olympics
96:1972 Summer Olympics
353:The Portsmouth News
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636:Welsh male boxers
609:978-1-902719-33-7
467:"Evans wins well"
173:. He met Italian
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358:23 December
310:23 December
281:23 December
246:Johnny Owen
219:György Gedó
104:György Gedó
88:Ralph Evans
74:1972 Munich
22:Ralph Evans
620:Categories
410:Jones 2012
332:Jones 2012
252:References
233:Later life
227:Fred Evans
195:Caerphilly
155:Joe Bugner
131:Portsmouth
113:Early life
304:The Times
248:in 1978.
119:Tonypandy
575:. BoxRec
257:Specific
204:southpaw
144:low blow
275:FreeBMD
129:, near
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225:where
191:Munich
171:Madrid
137:Career
100:Munich
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32:Men's
277:. ONS
92:boxer
604:ISBN
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