Archie Sexton

Archibald Ernest Sexton GM (3 April 1908 – 11 July 1957) was an English professional boxer who began his career at featherweight in 1925 and finished as a middleweight in 1936.

He had at least 222 professional contests,[1] including one for the British middleweight title in 1933, where he lost by a tenth round technical knockout to Jock McAvoy.

He took part in the world's first televised boxing match, a six-round exhibition against Laurie Raiteri in London on 22 August 1933.

During the Second World War he served as a Police War Reserve Constable, and in 1944 he was awarded the George Medal for his part in rescuing two men and a woman trapped in an air-raid shelter underneath Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.

His great granddaughter through marriage is professional undefeated female boxer Ramla Ali