Post-war fighters

[David Myers]

Rather than tuck the fighters that Chris requested away in the thread devoted to Carmen Basilio's missing opponents, I thought it better to start a new thread.

Here are three Cubans:

Damazo Collazo, a lightweight who fought from 1946 to 1959. Record: Record: 44-13-2 (25).

Bombon Oriental (real name: Esmerido Salazar), a lightweight who fought from 1942 to 1956. Record: 46-16-5 (15).

And Kid Charolito Spirituano (real name: Orlando Cepeda [no relation to the Baby Bull]), a welterweight who fought from 1946 to 1956. Record: 42-17-3 (62).

[CONN CHRIS]

This is great! Thanks Dave

[Tiger Fan]

thank you.

[David Myers]

Here, because Chris asked, are some "early" OBPF champions:

Larry Bataan, Phillipine featherweight, 1950-1962.

Hitoshi Misako, Japanese flyweight, 1950-1958.

Chamroen Songkitrat, Thai bantamweight (OBPF lightweight champ), 1951-1955.

Samart Sorndaeng, Thai middleweight (OBPF welterweight champ), 1956-1964.

Hachiro Tatsumi, Japanese middleweight, 1947-1962.

[David Myers]

Two more from the Pacific Rim:

Kunoi Vithichai, Thai flyweight, 1954-1960.

Somdej Yontarakit, Thai welterweight, 1951-1957.

[CONN CHRIS]

Thanks Dave, you are going to spoil us

[David Myers]

<b>David Oved</b> and <b>George Bracken</b>

Here is a rarity: an Israeli boxer. Oved fought from 1954 to 1961, primarily as a featherweight.

In 1959, he met George Bracken for the Australian lightweight title, losing on points in fifteen rounds.

I am also attaching Bracken, who fought from 1953 to 1962. An aborigine, he won the Aussie lightweight title in '56 and held it till losing to Aldo Pravisani, who knocked him out in '62.

[David Myers]

Here are four fighters who represented the U.S. at the 1948 London Olympics; they are not in the game.

Two of the Olympic boxers <i>are</i> included: Wallace "Bud" Smith, who finished fourth in the lightweight division in London, and light-heavy Chuck Spieser (although his name appears to be misspelled in the database).

Two of the team members never fought as pros: Washington Jones, the Olympic middleweight, and Horace Herring, the silver medalist in the welterweight division. (Unless Horace Herring is Jimmy Herring.)

At all events, here are the four missing boxers: heavyweight Jay Lambert, who hailed from West Jordan, Ut., the home of the Fullmer boys; featherweight Eddie Johnson; banty Bill Bossio; and flyweight Frankie Sodano. Both Sodano and Bossio fought professionally as featherweights.

[David Myers]

Here is the first fighter to beat Sonny Liston, along with a picture of him.

[Tiger Fan]

I have added Bobby Britton and Frankie Best to this thread
Photos with missing files

While both fought primarily pre or during WWII each did see some action afterwards. Britton until 1947 and Best until 1949.

[David Myers]

Fernandez fought as a heavyweight from 1950 to 1953, beating Tommy Harrison, Babe Edwards, and John McFalls, and losing to Harrison, Watson Jones, Freddie Beshore, and Leonard Morrow.

After his brief boxing career he entered acting. The son of a Yakaii indian, he was typecast as an indian. He hit the big time in the TV series <i>The Untouchables</i>, in which he played Agent William Youngfellow.

The attached picture is from that series.

[CONN CHRIS]

bump for move

[CONN CHRIS]

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