Boxing
 
Boxing, like football, has long been prominent in the Parish. The Clinton family of Auchinstarry feature eminently in the sport.
Bill Clinton began boxing in 1935. He had eight out of nine wins as an amateur and won forty of his fifty professional bouts. As Scottish Champion in 1940 he beat Paddy Ryan, British Champion, in an overweight fight. Bill was a founder member of the C.M.A.B.C. from 1939 till 1979 and trained many youths in the Parish in those years. His son Michael continues the family involvement. James Clinton, brother of Bill, was three times A.B.A. title winner, British Champion twice and a European finalist.
 
Bill's son, Pat, was Scottish Amateur Flyweight Champion 1983, 1984 and 1985, Commonwealth Federation Champion 1983, British Amateur Flyweight Champion 1984-85, and Britain's Olympic Flyweight representative at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. Pat became British Professional Champion in 1990 and took the World Flyweight Championship in 1992, the same title won by the great, if tragic, Glasgow Flyweight, Benny Lynch fifty seven years earlier. Pat Clinton is a boxing champion in every sense of the word.
 
Another notable fighter from Croy Boxing Club was Pat Harvey (Condorrat), an N.C.B. Middleweight Champion circa 1948-9 who died in the Auchengeich Pit Disaster. Pat beat Wm. Armstrong, eventual British Middleweight Champion, in a National Coal Board Championship fight.
James aka Riddy Nash won a number of titles while serving as a Physical Education Instructor in the British Army.
James Weldon, was another N.C.B. Champion.
Joe McLuskey (Kilsyth), was a holder of the ABA Light Heavyweight Title in 1990 and Ian Holmes was three times winner of the Scottish A.B.A. title at his weight.
There were also the well-known Docherty brothers of Condorrat.
 
The present structure of Croy Boxing Club dates from 1970 with Tony Christie as the then Chairman and Peter Hackett as Secretary. The Club is now well known also for its Charity Nights and fraternal ties with Ireland's Monivea ABC. There are exchange visits when successful charity boxing nights are held. The Club's Irish connection has resulted in Croy being virtually, if unofficially, twinned with nearby Athenry, a little Galway town now renowned in song.