As promised.
<b><font size=3>Harold Hoshino</b></font>
Featherweight
b. 1916-04-22
d. 1998-05-14
Home: Seattle
Trainer: Lonnie Austin
Career, 1937-47
<a href="http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=054492" target="_blank">Record</a>: 36-5-2 (27)
Style: Slugger
Fouls seldom
CFB/S 7/9
HP 8
CKD 2
CKO 2
REC 3
CUTS 2
AP 3
KI 8
AGG 8
END 7
DEF 4
FS 1
OR 3
DP 1
CON 1
INT 4
PRF 10
FI 3
FO 1
CU 1
GK 4
CLI 60
Punches
J 15/2
H 13/10
CR 13/8
CB 12/6
UC 14/7
PL 36
CP 34
PM 65
Rate 6
I've got to admit that these ratings are largely speculative. Hoshino was an intriguing Japanese-American featherweight who fought in Seattle and Honolulu prior to Pearl Harbor. Then he disappeared for six years. (Was he sent to a relocation camp?)
"Homicide Hal" never fought anyone particularly well-regarded, except perhaps Georgie Hansford, whom he kayoed in nine. A stoppage rate of 62.7% is nothing to sneeze at, though. If not for the war, which came when he was 25, would he have developed into a contender? Or is a 25-year-old featherweight already an old man? (Tony Canzoneri won the title at 19. Willie Pep was 20; Henry Armstrong, a couple of months short of his 24th birthday.)
Well, we'll never know for sure. Based on the ratings above, <i>this</i> Hoshino will amount to an interesting fighter just below the ranks of contenders.