[Rocco Del Sesto]

01/16/67 Monday
London, England
Des Cox – HW (1-0-0) vs. Doyle Brown – HW (2-0-0)

Cox was rated and posted sometime earlier.

Doyle Brown Rating 1
Heavyweight 1966-68
4 wins / 7 losses / 0 draws / 3 KO

Alias: Tony Brown?
Hometown/Birthplace: Watford, England

Local fighter around London for two years in 1966-68. Beat Jim McIlvaney(13-12-3,8), lost to Des Cox(9-1-0,4), Phil Watford(13-2-1,4), Dennis Avoth(22-21-3,4), and Terry Daly(16-3-0,13), while beating and loosing once each to Len Rocky James(10-15-1,5) as far as opponents go with any kind of career to them.

The fight.....
Two young local heavies meet up in this one in London, Lefty Des Cox from Shoreditch and Watford local Doyle Brown. The 6 round affair in 1967 ended in a decision victory for Cox. Neither of theses fighters lasted very long in the boxing scene here in England each lasting only a couple years before bowing out to undertake some other professions.
Our modern day rematch ended up a bit of a surprise upset. In play testing of Brown, Cox, whom I’d rated some time ago pretty consistently handled Brown so I was expecting some semblance of repeat of what transpired back in 1967. Not so, Brown controlled the fight throughout for the most part. He never managed to put Cox to the canvas but he scored punches at better then a 3 to 1 ratio to what Cox could land. Cox’s one moment of glory so to speak came in the 3rd round when with only about ½ minute to go in a pretty inactive round that Brown still showed ahead on, Cox managed to sneak in a hard body punch that took Brown down to the matt!! Brown quickly recovered and was up in a 3 count though. It was kind of interesting that two of the judges scored that round 10-8 Cox, conventional scoring wisdom I guess with the knockdown, but, one judge did score it only 10-9 Cox with the point count still ending up very close only 9-7 in Cox’s favor. I think that judge had it right. Another round I question judges scoring was the 2nd. Cox actually did lead this round for the first couple of minutes by a close 9-8 point count, but then Brown then drives in a crushing right to Cox’s jaw and follows up with a some more good jabs in the last seconds of the round to finish ahead 17-9. Yet, one judge still scores it 10-9 Cox! Despite all that though it ends as a Unanimous Decision win for Brown 59-55, 58-55, 57-56(the judge that gave the 2nd to Cox).