European fighters

[David Myers]

I have been rating quite a few postwar European fighters to add to my universe, and thought I'd share them with the TBCB community by posting them here. Please add any Euro boxers you may have drawn up.

[David Myers]

A pretty good Italian welter and junior middleweight who fought from 1952 to 1966.

[David Myers]

An Italian heavyweight who won the gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

[David Myers]

An English Jew who fought primarily as a middleweight in the early fifties, compiling a record of 48-8-4 (18).

[David Myers]

An English flyweight of the early fifties with a pro record of 27-4-1 (13).

[David Myers]

A French flyweight of the late forties and early fifties.

[David Myers]

Twice the French lightweight champ, Nollet was born in Martinique and put together a record of 48-21-16 (12).

[David Myers]

A Dutch middleweight and light heavy in Theo Huizenaar's stable who finished with a lifetime record of 60-10-1 (27).

[David Myers]

A fairly mediocre light heavy from Belfast with a fairly long career, 1948-1960.

[David Myers]

A middleweight from Rome, Festucci fought for the European middleweight title in 1956, losing to Charles Humez.

[SAL]

Thanks for sharing David.

Scot

[David Myers]

European welterweight champ, 1953-54, and French middleweight champ in 1957.

[hamed]

David, I agree with SAL, thanks - these are great!

[David Myers]

A onetime EBU lightweight champion (1959-'60), this Italian lost to Bruno Visintin, Dave Charnley, and Angel (Robinson) Garcia, but beat Orlando Zulueta, Fernand Nollet, and Lahouari Godih while battling Duilio Loi and Sandro Lopopolo to a draw. His career stretched from 1954 to 1963.

[David Myers]

A rare bird, Taki was a native of Istanbul, although he fought out of Vienna. He was a welterweight without a punch (one knockout in 62 career bouts) and something of a glass chin (kayoed six times), but Taki was a regular on the European circuit from 1951 to 1962, compiling a record of 40-14-8.

[CONN CHRIS]

Nice work, thank you David.

[David Myers]

A middle-of-the-pack lightweight. No relation to Ritchie Tanner (I think), although he too was born in Guyana, Allan Tanner fought mainly in England from 1948 to 1955, compiling a record of 39-25-3 (13).

[David Myers]

Another workhorse lightweight. Khalfi was born in Oran, but fought out of Paris. He lost a French lightweight title bout in 1957 to fellow Algerian Lahouari Godih. (Just curious. Can you imagine two Vietnamese boxers facing each other for an American title at the height of the Vietnam war?) At all events, Khalfi fought from 1948 till '57; he finished with a record of 45-21-6 (15).

[David Myers]

A native of Brescia, Amonti was the Italian light-heavyweight champion, 1959-1960, and the country's heavyweight champion, 1962-1965. His career lasted ten years, 1957-'67, and he put together a record of 57-9-3 (37).

[Owen]

You planning on doing any fighters from the 70's and 80's.