Tim Woolgar is a British chess boxer and event organiser who established Great Britain Chess Boxing Organisation and the London Chessboxing Club, the first United Kingdom chessboxing institution.[1][2] He is the current president of the World Chessboxing Association. He is a former holder of the title, British Heavyweight Chess Boxing Champion. He also promotes chess boxing events.
Woolgar plans to come out of retirement to fight in London in December 2022.[needs update]
Woolgar, otherwise known as "the Hippo" because of his rotund midsection [3] has fought 12 times in Chessboxing with a record of 4-7-1.[4]
Biography
editWoolgar formerly worked in the media as one of the UK's first video-journalists being one of the original recruits to Associated Media's TV news service Channel One London.[5] Woolgar also worked as a video-journalist at the BBC's Science and Features department, an executive producer at ITV and as head of interactive programming at Endemol UK.
On 15 August 2008, Woolgar won 1st vacant title of British heavyweight championship by checkmate in 9th round against Exeter-based Stewart Telford.[6]
On 24 April 2009, Woolgar had the world's first chess boxing match under amateur rules against Matthew Read, losing to a 7th round checkmate.[7]
In October 2011, Woolgar was elected to the post of director of marketing of the English Chess Federation with 95 votes cast in his favour, 89 votes cast in favour of 'none of the above' and six abstentions. He served his entire term, but did not stand for re-election in 2012.[8][9][10][11]
Record
edit| 5 Fights, 4 Wins (0 KOs, 3 CMs) 1 Loss | ||||||||
| Date | Result | Opponent | Event | Location | Method | Round | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-10-16 | Win |  Hubert "The Wardrobe" van Melick |
"Beyond The Super-Dome" | Boston Dome, London, England | Check-mate | 9 | ||
| 2010-05-15 | Win |  Nick Cornish |
"Super-Dome 2" | Boston Dome, London, England | Check-mate | 7 | ||
| 2010-03-15 | Loss |  Sergio Leveque |
"Super-Dome" | Boston Dome, London, England | Check-mate | 5 | ||
| 2009-10-09 | Win | Matthew "Crazy Arms" Read |
"Game of Kings" | Bethnal Green, London, England | Time Penalty | 7 | ||
| 2009-08-15 | Win | Stewart Telford |
"An Exhibition of CHESSBOXING" | Bethnal Green, London, England | Check-mate | 9 | ||
| Wins vacant 1st title of GBCBO British Heavyweight championship. | ||||||||
| Legend: Win Loss Draw/No contest Notes | ||||||||
| 1 Fights, 1 Loss | ||||||||
| Date | Result | Opponent | Event | Location | Method | Round | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-04-24 | Loss | Matthew "Crazy Arms" Read |
London, England | Time Penalty | 7 | |||
| Legend: Win Loss Draw/No contest Notes | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Boxers play chess in new UK sport". BBC. 11 April 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
- ^ "London ChessBoxing Club". Great Britain ChessBoxing. Archived from the original on 23 October 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
- ^ "CHESSBOXING NATION – Your Chess Boxing community". Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- ^ "Chessboxing Database". chessboxing.info. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- ^ "A Very British history of Videojournalism". View Magazine.
- ^ Tim Woolgar; Rajko Vujatovic. "Chessboxing in London's East End". wcbo.org. Archived from the original on 1 October 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ^ Rajko Vujatovic; Louise Sizer. "Swedish ChessBoxing Sensation in London". Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ^ Hill, John (20 August 2008). "Kings of the Ring". The Wharf. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
- ^ "Chessboxing". The ONE Show. 16 October 2009. BBC.
- ^ Nixey, Catherine (12 October 2009). "A left hook and checkmate – chessboxing hits London". The Times.[dead link]
- ^ "AGM : 15 October 2011 - Page 7 - English Chess Forum".
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