European fighters
 

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.

Bruno Visintin
 

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

Franco De Piccoli
 

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

Lew Lazar
 

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

Eric Marsden
 

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

Louis Skena
 

A French flyweight of the late forties and early fifties.

Fernand Nollet
 

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

Leen Jansen
 

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

Garnett Denny
 

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

Franco Festucci
 

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

Thanks for sharing David. :)

Scot

Gilbert Lavoine
 

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

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

Mario Vecchiatto
 

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.

Ziyaris Taki
 

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.

Nice work, thank you David.

Allan Tanner
 

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).

Hoacine Khalfi
 

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).

Santo Amonti
 

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).

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