Are Pete Waterman and Dennis Waterman related?

Late Peter Waterman who died on 16 January 1986, was an English boxer and an older brother of late actor Dennis Waterman.

Peter was a British and European welterweight champion born in Stepney, East London, England, one of nine children of Rose Juliana and Harry Frank Waterman.

He began boxing at the age of 11 and had an amateur career winning 121 of his 130 bouts. He won the 1952 Amateur Boxing Association British light-welterweight title when boxing out of the Caius ABC.

In 1952, he represented Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, in the light-welterweight class.

When Waterman was 18, he became a professional and won the British welterweight title in 1956. In 1957, he beat Emilio Marconi to gain the European welterweight title.

In April 1958, after a fight with British lightweight champion, Dave Charnley, he had to be helped to the dressing room, a few months later Waterman underwent brain surgery and never fought again.

He died in Islington at the age of 51.