[Rocco Del Sesto]

While sitting here listening to the radio broadcast of the first Louis/Schmeling fight from the link IceTea provided I worked on this rating of Bill Nielsen. Someone posted a photo(forget who) of him in one of the other threads.

23 wins / 12 losses / 3 draws / 13 KO

Hometown: Omaha, NE
Manager: Lee Sloan/Pinky George

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Compiled a 20-2-1 record from 1960 through April 1963. The losses in that time were a 7th round KO to Wayne Bethea in Jan. 1961 and a 10 round decision loss to Tony Hughes in Nov. 1962. Lou Bailey, Ernie Cab, Mariano Echevarria and Joe Bygraves are some of the other name fighters we've seen that Nielsen defeated in this time. Otherwise it was the usual array of club fighter names that were his early victories.

After the Bygraves fight, he began to take on some of the middle echelon quality in the heavyweights in the mid to late 60's. Here though, Nielsen proved pretty much overmatched. His only wins over the remainder of his career were a TKO over Billy Walker, a DQ win over Johnny Prescott and a TKO over Memphis Al Jones. He lost fights to Tom McNeeley, Brian London, Billy Walker, George Chuvalo, Roberto Davila, Johnny Prescott, Jack Bodell, a Ben Black(5-6-1), Jerry Quarry. After the Quarry fight he fought a 10 round draw with an undefeated LHW out of Pittsburgh, PA, Jack Rodgers(22-0 at the time). That was in June 1967. Then in October 1967 he was stopped in the 4th round by Boone Kirkman.