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Gary Williams
Image Descriptions: Gary Kenneth Williams was born in Orange and commenced his amateur boxing career at the age of 6. This was the beginning of a career that was to take Gary through 216 amateur fights resulting in 191 wins and 25 losses and a professional career of 40 fights with 34 wins and 6 losses. His older brother Bobby was also an Australian amateur champion.
Totally dedicated to training and under the watchful eye of his father Ken, the Orange postman wore the green and gold of Australia in Djarkarta, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Bangkok, Canada and the United States of America. After a distinguished junior career, Gary won his first senior title when he defeated Norm Stevens for the Australian Amateur title at 54kg at the age of 18. Gary regained his title again in 1977 over Stevens at 57kg and in 1979 against L Richards at 57kg. Gary also defeated Stevens for the Oceania title in 1979.
In international bouts Gary was runner up in the Kings Cup in Bangkok in 1978 and in the same year he represented Australia in the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton Canada, where he was defeated in the semi final. In 1979 Gary was runner up in the President's Cup in Djarkarta and later in the year he contested the World Cup at Madison Square Garden in New York, losing in the semi final to Pak Ill Chung of Korea.
Gary turned professional in 1980 and defeated State Champion Kirk Blair in his first professional fight. The highlight of his career came in June 1981 when he took the Australian professional featherweight title from world rated Paul Ferreri.
Gary retired at the age of 27 in 1984 from a career that spanned 21 years.
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