Australia Hall of Fame in 1985. He was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in Los Angeles in 1997. He also was inducted to the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003 and to the Frankston Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2013 the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame elevated him to Legend status. In 1991 he was badly injured when hit by a car outside Sydney's Warwick Farm racecourse, which resulted in horrific injuries and sustained an acquired brain injury and a stroke. In December 1993 Famechon commenced a new complex brain-based multi-movement therapy rehabilitation program that resulted in his return to a near normal life some 10–12 weeks after the therapy began. Famechon now has a bronze statue in his home town of Frankston and is only the third Australian boxer to be honoured in this way after Les Darcy and Lionel Rose. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours for significant service to boxing at the elite level. Famechon died in Melbourne on 4 August 2022 at the age of 77. See also Lineal championship List of WBC world champions French Australian References |- External links "Johnny Famechon: A boxer's story" from All in the Mind (ABC Radio) Talk to Johnny Famechon / Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame 1945 births 2022 deaths Australian male boxers Boxers from Paris Commonwealth Boxing Council champions Featherweight boxers French emigrants to Australia French male boxers Members of the Order of Australia Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees World Boxing Council champions World boxing champions People educated at Salesian College (Rupertswood) People from Ferntree Gully, Victoria Boxers from Melbourne Sportsmen from Victoria (Australia) People from Frankston, Victoria