[Rocco Del Sesto]

01/17/67 Tuesday
London, England
Jimmy Tibbs – LHW (9-0-0) vs. Johnny Ould – LHW (9-9-0)

Jimmy Tibbs - UK Rating 4
Light Heavyweight 1966-70
16 wins / 2 losses / 1 draw / 13KO

Hometown/Birthplace: West Ham, England

Ratng by: Rocco Del Sesto

Tibbs compiled an impressive looking record fighting exclusively in his homeland England. Impressive looking is about all there is to say about it. The only opponents he fought who's names we've run across are Tommy Woods, Tom Calderwood, Johnny Ould, and Clive Tranter. His only losses were to Ould(10-11-2,6) and Guinea Roger(13-32-1,11)

Johnny Ould - UK Rating 1
LIght Heavyweight 1961-67
10 wins / 11 losses / 2 draws / 6 KO

Hometown: Bermondsey, England

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

After a 5-1-0 and 1 NC start, Ould fought Stan Cullis for teh British (Southern Area) LHW Title in June 1962. Cullis KO'd Ould in the 9th round. Later in 1963 and 64 he lost to Bob Nicholson, fought an 8 round draw with Johnny Hendrickson and lost by 5th round KO to Pekka Kokkonen. In February 1966 Ould fought again for the British (Southern Area) LHW Title, this time against Bob Nicholson. The two fought to a 10 round draw. Ould finished out his career in 1966-67 with losses to Renato Moraes, Eddie Avoth, Lloyd Walford and Dave Barber while managing wins over a Vernon Allen and Jimmy Tibbs.

The fight....
Young hard hitting Jimmy Tibbs out of West Ham brings his undefeated record to London to take on Johnny Ould from Bermondsey. While Tibbs career is looking on the bright side, Ould is just trying to keep it going. He managed a 5th round TKO back in December against a Vernon Allen (2-10-0 at the time). His 6 previous fights before that victory over Vernon he’d lost 5 while managing only a 10 round draw against Bob Nicholson. Of Tibb’s first 9 wins, 6 were stoppages and you would think this fight would have ended in more the same results for Tibbs. In reality though, Ould pulled out an upset of sorts taking Tibbs through the full scheduled 8 rounds and pulled off a decision victory handing Tibbs his first defeat. An upset or just some proof of how bad maybe Tibbs first 9 opponents were?
Our replay fight really turned out to be an entertaining affair. After rating these two fighters, I really did not think Ould would have a chance against Tibbs to last very long. As it was though, Ould managed to take the fight to Tibbs quite well for the first 4 rounds as they alternated with Tibbs taking rounds 1 and 3 and Ould 2 and 4 on all three scorers cards. Tibbs took control though in the 5 and 6th rounds out pointing Ould 30 to 2 combined in those 2 rounds. Then in 7th round, Tibbs just poured it on. In the first 2-1/2 minutes of the round Ould goes down 3 times but manages to get up each time before the 10 count. Then finally at 2:45 in the 7th, Tibbs lands a hard cross knocking Ould on his back and he’s counted out. KO victory for Tibbs at 2:55 of 7th round!