A former milkman at Co-op Dairies, Greenford and good pals of Steve Lovell, Roger Matthews and Little Fat Willy.
Born in Perivale, London, Andy Till won the ABA light middleweight title before making his professional debut in September 1986 with a sixth-round stoppage of Peter Reid.
He won his next 7 fights, including a points decision over Wally Swift Jr and a win over Steve Foster, and defeat of Tony Britton to take the vacant BBBofC Southern Area title, setting up a British title eliminator against Ensley Bingham in June 1990; Till was disqualified in the third round for elbowing.
[2] Till won his next 3 fights, including a win over Terry Magee, and in October 1991 beat John Davies on a split decision to take the vacant WBC International super welterweight title.
[5] He made successful defences of his British title against Tony Collins (in December 1992) and Swift (April 1993) to win the Lonsdale Belt outright.