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Rocco Del Sesto · 02-15-2026, 03:55 PM

Howdy on this rainy Sunday in Georgia, USA!

I'm going through fight logs on BoxRec for Hal Thomas and John Henry Johnson, Walter Wazal's 2nd professional fight (First on the current Walter Wazal BoxRec log). Both of these fight logs for Thomas and Johnson are not very long so I'm taking some time to look through both to see which may be the real name and which the alias. I thought at first Hal Thomas being the real name because right now it's fight under that name that are the earliest ones I'm finding in the papers. But some newspaper comments in the first month of 1937 are beginning to make me feel John Henry Johnson may be the "real name" maybe Henry Johnson and Hal Thomas is the alias.

Stay tuned......
Rocco

02-15-2026, 03:55 PM	#164
Rocco Del Sesto Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Watkinsville, Georgia Posts: 2,172	John Henry Johnson alias Hal Thomas? Howdy on this rainy Sunday in Georgia, USA! I'm going through fight logs on BoxRec for Hal Thomas and John Henry Johnson, Walter Wazal's 2nd professional fight (First on the current Walter Wazal BoxRec log). Both of these fight logs for Thomas and Johnson are not very long so I'm taking some time to look through both to see which may be the real name and which the alias. I thought at first Hal Thomas being the real name because right now it's fight under that name that are the earliest ones I'm finding in the papers. But some newspaper comments in the first month of 1937 are beginning to make me feel John Henry Johnson may be the "real name" maybe Henry Johnson and Hal Thomas is the alias. Stay tuned...... Rocco