Tim Woolgar

Tom 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 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.

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

Woolgar 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
Professional Chess boxing record
5 Fights, 4 Wins (0 KOs, 3 CMs) 1 Loss
Date Result OpponentEventLocation MethodRoundTime
2010-10-16WinNetherlands Hubert "The Wardrobe" van Melick"Beyond The Super-Dome"Boston Dome, London, EnglandCheck-mate9
2010-05-15WinEngland Nick Cornish"Super-Dome 2"Boston Dome, London, EnglandCheck-mate7
2010-03-15LossItaly Sergio Leveque"Super-Dome"Boston Dome, London, EnglandCheck-mate5
2009-10-09WinEngland Matthew "Crazy Arms" Read"Game of Kings"Bethnal Green, London, EnglandTime Penalty7
2009-08-15WinEngland Stewart Telford"An Exhibition of CHESSBOXING"Bethnal Green, London, EnglandCheck-mate9
Wins vacant 1st title of GBCBO British Heavyweight championship.
Legend:   Win   Loss   Draw/No contest   Notes
Amateur Chess boxing record
1 Fights, 1 Loss
Date Result OpponentEventLocation MethodRoundTime
2009-04-24LossEngland Matthew "Crazy Arms" ReadLondon, EnglandTime Penalty7
Legend:   Win   Loss   Draw/No contest   Notes

References
  1. "Boxers play chess in new UK sport". BBC. 11 April 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
  2. "London ChessBoxing Club". Great Britain ChessBoxing. Archived from the original on 23 October 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
  3. "CHESSBOXING NATION – Your Chess Boxing community". Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  4. "Chessboxing Database". chessboxing.info. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  5. "A Very British history of Videojournalism". View Magazine.
  6. Tim Woolgar; Rajko Vujatovic. "Chessboxing in London's East End". wcbo.org. Archived from the original on 1 October 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  7. Rajko Vujatovic; Louise Sizer. "Swedish ChessBoxing Sensation in London". Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  8. Hill, John (20 August 2008). "Kings of the Ring". The Wharf. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
  9. "Chessboxing". The ONE Show. 16 October 2009. BBC.
  10. Nixey, Catherine (12 October 2009). "A left hook and checkmate – chessboxing hits London". The Times.
  11. "AGM : 15 October 2011 - Page 7 - English Chess Forum".


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