Driscoll, Jim (1880-1925), was a Welsh boxer who ranks among the greatest featherweight fighters in boxing history. Driscoll won fame as a master of the traditional scientific style of boxing, using the straight left as the principal punch. He became known as Peerless Jim Driscoll. He won the British featherweight title in 1906 and again in 1907. Driscoll won the British Empire championship in 1908 and the European title in 1912. In 1910, he won the first Lonsdale Belt ever awarded in the featherweight category. Driscoll was never world champion, but, in 1909, he outboxed the world champion Abe Attell in the United States. Under the New York laws of the time, bouts could be decided only by a knockout.
Driscoll was born on Dec. 15, 1880, in Cardiff, Wales. During a boxing career that lasted from 1901 to 1919, he won 52 fights and lost only 3. Driscoll died on Jan. 30, 1925.
