About: Blair Richardson

Blair Richardson (29 January 1941 – 6 March 1971) was a Canadian professional light middle/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1950s and 1960s who won the Maritime Middleweight Title, Canada middleweight title, and Commonwealth middleweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 154 lb (70 kg; 11 st 0 lb), i.e. middleweight to 167 lb (76 kg; 11 st 13 lb), i.e. light heavyweight, he was managed by , Johnny Buckley, , and trained by Al Lacey, , and . Richardson was an alumnus of Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts where he gained bachelor and master of science degrees in speech (minors in sociology and theology), after his retirement from boxing, he taught speech and the finer points of boxing at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts for two years before joining th