Editing Randolph Turpin (section)

==Amateur career==
He started boxing exhibition bouts during the interval, at local boxing shows when his brother Dick was fighting. Then at the boxing booth when the fair was in town, with his brother Jackie. In a double act called 'Alexander and Moses', where they fought for nobbins (money thrown into the ring by the spectators).<ref name="jackie" />

His amateur boxing career commenced at the Leamington Boys Club and continued when he joined the Royal Navy. He actually lost his first amateur contest by decision but then went on to only lose another two contests in a total of 100 fights.<ref name="birtley" />

He won three national junior titles and won the senior ABA championship in 1945 at welterweight and in 1946 at middleweight. In 1945 he won both the junior and senior ABA titles in the same season. The only person to have completed such a feat and the first black boxer to win a senior ABA championship. The rules have been changed over the years and junior boxers can no longer enter the senior championships; meaning that no one will be able to match his feat. He also fought for Great Britain in the annual televised match against the US in 1946, scoring a first-round knockout in his contest.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml1xPMe6ZgQ | title=Britain victorious in Anglo-American boxing tournament (1946) | website=[[YouTube]] | date=11 November 2020 }}</ref>