[Rocco Del Sesto]

Originally Posted by madredmonkey

Hello, Rocco, mark mcilvaney here again, you wanted to know who his first fight was against, he was 1965-12-09186¼Roy Seward187¾9-11-1King's Hall, Derby, Derbyshire, United KingdomWTKO66
my father was a southpaw, and was a heavyweight, who fought out of birmingham his manager was george biddleys. as i said before he is scottish and was born in bellshill 21/08/1943, he is now 67 and lives in the hall geen area of birmingham uk. if you need more i will try to help, when i can, mark.

Mark, So good to hear from you. Thank you for your insite into your father. Since our last correspondence here I have in fact gotten a full set of the Boxing News during the 1960s. I looked up his first fight against Roy Seward and the article about their fight notes that Jim took some strong blows to the head in the first couple rounds of the fight but then after that he rebounded in the later rounds and was giving Seward and good work over such that then in 6th round the referee stopped the fight to "save Seward from further punishment". It noted the fans were quite pleased with the fight. "A shower of nobbins descended on the ring in aapreciation."