Bill Squires’s Real Name and Boxing Biography
Bill Squires’s birth name was William Squires. The Australian heavyweight was also known as “Boshter Bill.”
- Known as
- Bill Squires
- Full or birth name
- William Squires
- Category
- Boxers
Biography
William Squires boxed professionally as Bill Squires. BoxRec records his birth name, his Australian home town of Narrabri in New South Wales, and the alias Boshter Bill.
Squires became an Australian heavyweight champion and gained a reputation as a powerful puncher. His international career is closely associated with world champion Tommy Burns. Their first title encounter took place in California on July 4, 1907, and Burns won in the first round. Surviving film preserves that meeting.
The International Boxing Hall of Fame’s Burns biography confirms that the champion faced Squires three times and later added him to his camp as a sparring partner. Those three meetings should not be merged into a single event: they belonged to separate stops in Burns’s international championship career.
For name records, Bill is the familiar form of William, while Boshter Bill is the ring nickname. Neither should be mistaken for a second boxer. Squires’s career illustrates the difference between a major domestic reputation and the results of an international title challenge.
Names and nicknames
Boshter Bill.
Archival film connection
Squires vs Burns (1907), opposite Tommy Burns.
Frequently asked questions
What name is documented for Bill Squires?
Bill Squires’s birth name was William Squires. The Australian heavyweight was also known as “Boshter Bill.”
Which archival footage is associated with Bill Squires?
Squires vs Burns (1907), opposite Tommy Burns.
Sources
Further reading: Wikipedia