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January 1958
Tuesday 08 October 1957
Auditorium
Richmond, California, USA
promoter Jimmy Cosenza
boxer lbs record boxer lbs record
Tommy Fields 196 6 5 2 W Bob Butcher 196 17 0 0 TKO 10/10
Heavyweight
time: 0:19 referee: Matt Zidich
Butcher was knocked down once in the 2nd and 9th round.
Rocky Fumerelle 157 9 0 0 W Joe Brewer 159½ 8 3 1 PTS 6/6
Middleweight
Sixto Rodriguez 172 10 0 1 W Jim Fisher 170 1 1 0 PTS 6/6
Light Heavyweight
James Head 185 debut W Herman Henry 185 1 1 0 KO 1/4
Heavyweight
Ken Gordon 135 1 11 3 L Guadalajara Kid 135½ 17 7 0 PTS 4/4
Lightweight
JANUARY 1958 RING – IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA - A good opening fights at the Auditorium in Richmond, California between two decent heavyweights, Tommy Fields and Bob Butcher. Decent little write up on this in the Ring. At the time of the fight, Tommy Fields was coming with a modest at best can be said 6-5-2 record and was coming off an 8th round TKO loss to Buddy Turman back in June. Butcher on the other hand was sporting a 17-0-0 mark with 12 stoppages all opponents none much to speak off. Ring noted Bob trained and to take all his opponents seriously, but not for this fight. Bob actually controlled in more of the rounds especially in the middle ones after being dropped for a four count in the 2nd round. In the 9th round though Fields began to connect with his punches and dropped Butcher on his back. Referee Matt Zidich had reached the count of 7 when the bell rung to end the 9th. Then early in the 10th round with Fields knocking Butcher all over the ring, Zidich finally called the fight. Promoter Jimmy Cosensza pulled in a $2648 gross pay for the night card that will feature another heavyweight bout and a light heavy matchup that will feature up and coming Sixto Rodriguez.
Bob Butcher was originally rated by Chris Mund and I originally did Tommy Fields somewhere way back in the yearly years. I found a nice obituary article on Bob Butcher that gave some good back ground on him which I’ve included in some of his Bio you can read up on. I created a new HW rating for him and did some play testing getting some results I liked. Chris’ rating is still included though in the file attached so you can do some comparison. Fields I did a bit of updating including his ratings bit with some new testing. Back in 1957 after Fields had stopped Butcher in that 10 rounder, the two matched again two months later in December and this time Butcher won a 10 round decision. So I kept fiddling with both fighters ratings till I got to a point I liked with both of them where the two were fairly overall evenly splitting all the rematch fights and then their overall career results coming out decent. So you’ll see Butcher’s rating dropped 1 from what Chris had.
TITLE BOUT 2013 – So then in my one fight rematch of Oct 8, 1957….and winner by Unanimous decision Bob Butcher!! Butcher dominated the fight with scores o 97-92, 98-91 and 98-91. After two close first rounds to Butcher and an even 3rd by all three judges, a bad cut was opened on Fields left eyebrow after the two fighters butted heads. Despite that cut Fields keeps Butcher on the defense and the 4th turns into Tommy’s best round. 5th round and it turns all for the guy from San Francisco as an uppercut catches the Fields jaw and puts Tommy down for a 7 counts about midway in the round. Butchers keeps coming at Fields and puts him down again in the 7th for 9 before Fields manages to struggle his way up off the canvas. Fields manages some come back in the 8th but in the 9th the left eyebrow cut reopens and hinders him the rest of the fight.
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