[Rocco Del Sesto]

Well this is it...we top things off with Allen Williams

This one you'll see my rating is quite a bit different to Lee's.

Allen Williams - Australia - HW
Career Record: W39(KO 23) / L8(KO 5) / D1

TITLES:
Australia-New South Wales State Heavyweight Title
Australia Heavyweight Title
South Pacific Heavyweight Title

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DOB would appear estimated in boxrec.

Original Rating by Lee Skye

Frist won the Australia HW Title defeating Ken Brady in May 1955 and held it til he was defeated by Steve Raduly in November 1959.

In the March 1953 Ring Ray Mitchell noted under his News from Sunny Australia as Williams becoming a heavyweight title contender in Australia. He defeated Norrie Bell in Dec 1952 to win the New South Wales State HW Title.The June 1953 Ring ran a short account of Williams next fight which took place in Singapore against Alex Buxton, British Empire Middleweight contender who gave away 32 pounts (33 by BoxRec) to Williams who proved too slow to handle Buxton but managed to last 10 rounds.

After beating Rudy Crivic twice including defending his NSW Title and then beating Kelly Couper and top Australian HW Ken Brady, Williams finished 1953 with a 2nd successful defence of the NSW HW Title beating Doug Brown. This was all good to earn Williams raning in the Class B heavyweights in the Feb 1954 Ring annual ratings, continued to be rated that in 1955.

After defending his NSW HW title against Ross Jenkins Sept 1954, Williams went on to draw 12 rounds with Kitione Lave and then on a 15 round decision against Ken Brady in May 1955 to take the Australian Heavyweight title. The Sept 1955 Ring account of the fight was very brief accounting only their fight weights and that Williams "was too smart". It did earn him a jump for the first time in that month's Ring British Empire HW rankings, all the way to #7. Interesting though the 1956 Annual Ring ratings they still placed him with the B group.

A pretty good article in the Oct 1956 Ring on Williams recounts his fights in Fiji traveling there just days after beating Ernie Hughes defending his Australian title and took a 15 round decision against Tom Hini, a guy with a 1-1 record to win what they called the South Pacific Heavyweight Title.

After winning the Australian Heavyweight title against Ken Brady in May 1955, Williams went on to defend his title 10 times, second only to the 11 defenses by Bill Lang who held the title from 1907-1910. Williams last defense on November 30th 1959 as a "pathetic" showing according to the March 1960 Ring account of the fight. Writer Ray Mitchell described Williams a shell of his former self of his earlier days as the Australian champ.

June 1954 Ring notes in an account of Williams April 1954 TKO loss to Kitione Lave and that Lave sent Williams down to the canvas for the first time in Williams career. The Sept 1954 Rings notes that Williams went to Inverell with an offer for a fight and beat his opponent, Joe Dargin so quickly that he was coaxed back into the ring to take on a local heavyweight, Soctty McDougall. McDougall managed to last to the 3rd. This last paragraph you'll see it out of order like this in the Biography. Should have been more to the top. Not sure how I did that.

So what next??!!!