Bantamweight Len Wickwar (11 March 1911 – 1 June 1980[citation needed]) was a British boxer who fought between 1928 and 1947, mostly as a lightweight.
[2][3][4] He had been discovered by manager George Biddles at a gym above the Friar Tuck public house on Woodgate.
[5] In December 1937, Wickwar beat then British lightweight champion Jimmy Walsh in a non-title fight at Granby Halls.
[7] Although he never got a shot at the title, one of his biggest fights was at Welford Road Stadium in July 1939 in front of a crowd of 14,000, in a non-title fight against reigning British champion Eric Boon, who had taken the lightweight title from Crowley eight months earlier;[2][3] Wickwar was knocked out by Boon in the ninth round.
[8] After retiring from boxing, Wickwar lived in the New Parks area of Leicester and worked for local company Bentley Engineering as a packer and labourer.