[Rocco Del Sesto]

While looking over the net for any info on Ken Brady I came across a real good article from a newspaper, The Sunday Mail from Australia dating from Aug 30, 1953 with an article about Ken Brady. With it there were some snipits on some other young Aussie heavyweights from the Queensland area at the time. Following are some ratings I did up for them. The article which I've put in the TB file so you can look it up had some photos of 4 of the fighters. Look up the article you'll enjoy it.

Kelly Couper - Australia - HW
Career Record: W1(KO 1) / L1(KO 0) / D0


DOB has been estimated from an internet newspaper article, The Sunday Mail from Australia on Aug 30, 1953 which place Couper's age at 22 and height 6ft 2-1/2in.

Article mentions he is a timber cutter from Pialba getting ready to fight Allen Williams and has a 13-1/2" fist.

Rating is a random generation with a couple tweeks. Did no testing. Something to put another Australian in your data base.


Johnny Halpin - Australia - HW
Career Record: W2(KO 1) / L0(KO 0) / D0

DOB has been estimated.

Arrived in heavyweight boxing with some resurgence of in Queensland in 1953 with ken Berry, Cec Meredith, Kelly Couper, Tom Hagenbach and Les Maxim.

Fought only once though in Sept 1953 and then records one other fight in 1958 in BoxRec winning both. Did no playtesting of this. RFG'd and tweeked a little something that looked good to me.


Tom Hagenbach - Australia - HW
Career Record: W0(KO 0) / L1(KO 1) / D0

unknown information has been left blank.

DOB is estimated from the article in The sunday Mail, Australia paper on the internet which placed his age as 27 in the Aug 30, 1953 article. The article mentioned Hagenback held a decision win over an Olympian fighter, Carl Fitzgerald.

This article spells his name ending with an h, not a k as the boxrec file has.
Again, RFG tweeked a bit then and no playtesting.


Les Maxim - Australia - LHW
Career Record: W1(KO 1) / L3(KO 3) / D0

Unknown information has been left blank.

Did a little testing of this fighter having fought Crivac and Halafihi.

DOB is estimated at 1931 as the The Sunday Mail article places his age at 22 in the August, 30, 1953 article.

The Sunday Mail, Australian newspaper article on the internet talking about some young Australian heavyweights mentions Maxim is from Poland and trained by Eric Boon a one time English champion. Describes Maxim as a wild fighter always trying to use brute force.



Cec Meredith - Australia - HW
Career Record: W7(KO 7) / L13(KO 6) / D0

TITLES:
Queensland Heavyweight Title

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Thought I had a rating for Meredith by someone else but could not find it.

DOB has been estimated from an August 30, 1953 The Sunday Mail, an Australian publication found on the internet placed Meredith's age as 25 and height at 5ft 9in.
The same article places Meredith hailing from Atherton, Tableland, a part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland. He began his fight career in Brisbane and then moved on to Melbourne.

Won KO victories of Don Furner and Bill Montgomery for the Queensland title. Lost to Ken Brady in August 1953 and in April 1954 for the Autralian Heavyweight title and Ernie Hughes in March 1956 and April 1956 for the Queensland Heavyweight Title.


Nev Stark - Australia - HW
Career Record: W0(KO 0) / L1(KO 1) D0

Unknown information has been left blank.

DOB has been estimated.

KO'd in 2nd round by Johnny halpin in Sept 1953. RFG'd Stark with some tweeking till it looked something I liked.

So enjoy a few Aussies to pad your DB a bit if you don't have these already. Again I swear I'd seen Meredith before but searching the Forums could not find him.

Next I'll get back to looking at Brady.