[Rocco Del Sesto]

Clemente Saavedra Rating 1 Chile
Heavyweight 1922-26
2 wins / 8 losses / 1 draw / 0 KO


Original Rating: Christopher
Updated rating: Rocco Del Sesto

I had a file done by Chris that indicated only 3 fights for Saavedra, the 2 fights with Rojas and the last one with Renault. Since then BoxRec has been doing some updating of his career. I ran across Saavedra while looking at Chilean HW's so here's an update on Chris' original work.

After the two, 12 round decisions dropped to Quinto Romero Rojas in June and July 1922, Saavedra's next recorded fight is June 1923, a 12 round decision win over Gunboat Smith in Santiago, Chile. More then a year later in November 1924, he shows up New York for 3 fights at Madison Square Garden, a 6 round draw with Dan O'Connell in November, a 6 round decision win over Alex Sclair in december and then Saavedra is stopped in the 2nd round by Sully Montgomery in January 1925 when the referee, Jim Crowely stopped the bout when Saavedra was "helpless and staggering about the ring" according to the New York Times.

That loss started a string of 6 straight losses through 1925 and ending in the June 1926 2nd round KO loss to Jack Renault. He lost also a 6 round decision to Sandy Seifert and was stopped in fights by Joe Stoessel(9-8-3,7KO), Bill Tate and Bud Gorman before Renault tagged him.

The version that Chris did actually simmed out very well. All I changed was lowering his endurance from 10 to 8 and raised his recovery from 5 to 6.

Rocco