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Connecticut Heavyweight of the Forties
ART McDONALD
Hometown - Hartford, Connecticut, USA
2(1)-0-0
Easy Going Art fought only 2 bouts, both at the end of 1946 and both in the Hartford Armory.
CHARLEY MELBANE
Hometown - Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
1(1)-1-0
Mebane won his pro debut in Hartford and lost a second fight in Ohio two years later.
JOHNNY RICE
Hometown - Stamford, Connecticut, USA
13(6)-15-1
Rice went on the road quite a bit for a club-level fighter; taking bouts in Philly, Louisville, Maine, Rhode Island, Boston and New York. Larry Villeneuve and and Roy Taylor were slightly above his pay grade, but mosty Rice fought against others of a similar skill level. While in Connecticut, he boxed mainly in the Southwest corner of the state.
COLEMAN WHITE
Hometown - Hartford, Connecticut, USA
6(2)-3-1; 1 NC
White bagan his career in Hartford with a KO loss to Ray Byron and a no contest. Then he relocated to Florida and went 4-1-1 before taking a ten year lay off from the ring. He returned in 1959 to take a 4 round decision from Jim Tillman in Miami Beach.
JOE YORFINO
Hometown - Stamford, Connecticut, USA
2(2)-1-0
Joe won a pair of knockout victories five years apart before being knocked out by Johnny Rice to end his flirtation with the ring.
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