List of New Zealand featherweight boxing champions

This list of New Zealand featherweight boxing champions is a table showing the boxers who have won the New Zealand professional featherweight championship.

The title has been administered by the New Zealand Boxing Association since 1907.

A champion will often voluntarily relinquish the title in order to fight for a higher-ranked championship, such as the world.

Name	Reign	Duration of reign	Title	Defences	Note
Alf Gault	1	15 July 1907	New Zealand Boxing Association	0
Torpedo Billy Murphy^[1]	1	8 August 1907	New Zealand Boxing Association	0
James Godfrey^[2]	1	25 November 1907 – 22 December 1908	New Zealand Boxing Association	1
Billy Elliott^[3]	1	22 December 1908	New Zealand Boxing Association	0	Vacated title
Jimmy Hagerty^[4]	1	24 April 1912 – 1914	New Zealand Boxing Association	1	Relinquished title
Gus Venn	1	29 July 1914 – 1915	New Zealand Boxing Association	0	Relinquished title
Lin Robinson	1	26 June 1919 – 3 June 1922	New Zealand Boxing Association	5
Duke Maddox	1	3 June 1922 – 11 December 1922	New Zealand Boxing Association	2
Harry Gunn	1	11 December 1922 – 31 March 1923	New Zealand Boxing Association	1
Mike Flynn	1	31 March 1923 – 1924	New Zealand Boxing Association	1	Relinquished title
George Curran	1	17 May 1924 – 6 October 1924	New Zealand Boxing Association	2
Bert Brown	1	6 October 1924 – 4 April 1925	New Zealand Boxing Association	1
Lin Robinson	2	4 April 1925 – 5 May 1927	New Zealand Boxing Association	3	Bert Brown forfeited the title to Robinson due to Brown being overweight. The bout still went ahead, with Brown winning by points.
Duke Maddox	2	5 May 1927 – 22 August 1927	New Zealand Boxing Association	1
Johnnie Leckie	1	22 August 1927 – 29 November 1930	New Zealand Boxing Association	4
Tommy Donovan	1	29 November 1930 – 31 October 1931	New Zealand Boxing Association	1
Johnnie Leckie	2	31 October 1931 – 2 October 1933	New Zealand Boxing Association	1
Percy Hawes	1	2 October 1933 – 16 December 1933	New Zealand Boxing Association	2
Clarrie Rayner	1	16 December 1933 – 10 February 1936	New Zealand Boxing Association	6
Billy Aitken	1	10 February 1936 – 26 May 1936	New Zealand Boxing Association	0	Aitken stripped of title
Lex Greaney	1	8 June 1939 – 14 October 1944	New Zealand Boxing Association	1
Clarrie Rayner	2	14 October 1944 – 12 March 1946	New Zealand Boxing Association	2
Tom Baty	1	12 March 1946 – 1947	New Zealand Boxing Association	0	Batty retired in 1947, vacating the title.
Johnny Hanks	1	14 June 1954 – 15 April 1957	New Zealand Boxing Association	1
Billy Leckie	1	15 April 1957 – 7 September 1961	New Zealand Boxing Association	2
Jimmy Cassidy	1	7 September 1961	New Zealand Boxing Association	0
Toro George	1	8 June 1966	New Zealand Boxing Association	1	George was awarded the title without beating anyone for the title. He successfully defended the title on 15 September 1966.
Nick Fletcher	1	26 November 1992	New Zealand Boxing Association	0

List of New Zealand featherweight boxing champions

List of New Zealand featherweight boxing champions

List of New Zealand super featherweight boxing champions

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