[Rocco Del Sesto]

Really enjoying reading through your takes on these heavyweights Dean. A lot of great insight you've put into these ratings that tell us a lot about the fighters.

If you'd get a chance, I'd be interested in hearing your take on the above mentioned guys. I've started into researching through some old Boxing News that I have (66 thur 69) reading up on the UK heavyweights of that time period. It's been really interesting. I've done a new rating on Jim McIlvaney and I'm working on one for a guy named Billy Gray. He along with Carl Gizzi came to be for awhile two of the biggest heavyweight names in the UK during that time rated just below the "Big Five" of Cooper, London, Bodell, Walker and Prescott.

My work on Gray though has gotten me to wondering about Bodell and Walker's ratings. Right now in the official data base Walker is an overall 4 while Bodell is only a 1! Now maybe Walker would be a 4 but I'd have to believe Bodell is something much more than a 1. Walker lost his fights to Bodell, Cooper, London and Prescott on top of losses also to Mildenberger and Eduardo Corletti. Bodell meanwhile took Cooper thru 15 rounds late in their careers while also beating London and Prescott.

I did a rating of PRescott back in TB2 and think he was a 3 or 4.

Rocco Del Sesto