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Originally Posted by wildhawke11
Chris
The name rings a bell with me i think he i was known as *The Black Flash* In fact i am sure of that. This is a calculated guess now, he must have been fighting in the 50s when i was a a teenager
The name Johnny Famazson ( wrong spelling) also comes to mind from that era Boxrec is again playing up so i cant check him out on that.
Maybe he was a FW or LW ? not MW or up pretty sure on that one.
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Roy Ankrah was a Ghanaian featherweight-lightweight who fought from 1941-1959 (with a hiatis from 1955-1958). He was born in Accra, December 25, 1925. He started his career as a flyweight and ended his career as a lightweight. According to The Ring he was unbeaten from 1941-1949 (110 fights). He successfully won African Gold Coast flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight and welterweight titles. He was considered a monster in the ring. He won the British Empire fetherweight title against Ronnie Clayton in London on April 30, 1951 and held it until October 2, 1954. Nat Fleischer was very high on Roy. After defeating Clayton, Fleischer wrote, "Roy is a whirlwind. He doesn't seem to possess a heavy wallop, but he exhausts the opposition by a tireless, steady bombardment. Clayton tried everything. He tried to box, to stand up and face his rival, to mix-it , but couldn't get set, so fast was the Ankarah attack. He is a reminder of Henry Armstrong. It wasn't a boxing match - just a tear-in, fist-tossing mill in which the fighter from Africa's Gold Coast came through in flying colors."