Phil Scott (boxer)

Philip Scott Suffling (3 January 1900 – 4 December 1983), born in Paddington, London, was an English professional heavyweight boxer of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, who won the National Sporting Club (NSC) (subsequently known as the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC)) British heavyweight title, British Empire heavyweight title, and European Boxing Union (EBU) heavyweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 195.25 lb (88.56 kg; 13 st 13.25 lb) to 218 lb (98.9 kg; 15 st 8.0 lb).

He joined the Royal Navy aged 15, and served as a seaman aboard HMS Trafalgar during the First World War, after the war, he was a police officer at Scotland Yard for two years, then a fireman for the London Fire Brigade from June 1922 to June 1924, and in 1933 he became a boxing instructor for the Egyptian National Police. Scott started his professional boxing career in 1919. His coaches admitted that he knew virtually nothing about "infighting", but that he had a fast left hand. He appeared on the cover of the November 1929 edition of The Ring magazine, and he co-wrote a book with R. James Alexander called The Complete Boxer, a textbook on boxing which sold for a shilling.