[Rocco Del Sesto]

01/03/67 Tuesday

Las Vegas, NV, USA
Eddie Jones – LHW (11-3-0) vs. Jesse Bolen – LHW (2-3-0)

Eddie Jones - USA Rating 7 LHW already in the game.

36 wins / 15 losses / 3 draws / 14 KO

Hometown: Oakland, CA

A pretty good looking Light Heavyweight of the 60's to mid 70's. He fought a number of "middle class" light heavies and middleweights that are in the game, some by other gamers who've contributed additional fighters. His only shot at a title though came in August 1971 against Vincente Paul Rondon(who interestingling is thus far not in the game), when the two fought for the WBA Light Heavyweight Title. Rondon won by a 15 round UD.

Other guys Jones fought in the came included wins over Allen Thomas, Jimmy Dupree, Henry Hank, Roger Rouse, Ramon Peralta, Andy Kendall and Tom Bethea.

Losses were to Thomas, Harold JOhnson, Kendall, Dupree, Peralta, Victor Galindez, Len Hutchins, Tom Bogs and Jesse Burnett. He also fought a 10 round draw with Kendall.


Jesse Bolen - USA Rating 1
Light Heavyweight 1965-68

2 wins / 8 losses / 0 draw / 0 KO

Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Jesse won his first 2 career fights in 1965 then lost the last 8, 5 by KO. He lost by 2nd round KO to Eddie Jones in Jan 1967, then lost a 10 round decision in Feb. 1968 to Andy Kendall in his only other noteable fight.

The fight......

One guy starting up on his promising looking career against another guy already looking to be on the down turn of a short lasted career. Jones has racked up 11 wins in 14 fights including wins over Billy Stephan (19-11-1) and Chuck Leslie(11-11-1). Those wins had followed a 10 round decision loss to Leslie. So Jones already was starting to get some tougher competition in his early career. Bolen on the other hand had lost 3 fights against meaningless opponents after having won the first two fights of his career. This was a scheduled 10 round affair. In the real thing in 1967, Jones KO’d Bolen, but Jesse fought tough taking the fight into the 8th round. In our replay fight here, Bolen lasted the distance, taking Jones the full 10 rounds. The fight ended a UD for Jones with all 3 judges scoring it 99-91. Each judge did score 1 round for Bolen. Interestingly they all were different rounds. Judge 1 gave round 4 to Bolen, Judge 2 gave round 8 to Bolen and Judge 3 game round 6 to Bolen. Personally, this fight fan sees no reason to have scored any rounds for Bolen. The 8th of those three was probably the best round for Bolen scoring any points with any punches landed. Even then it was not even close. Jones controlled the action through out the fight, but never pressed his advantage to try and take Bolen out. A strong decision win for Jones, but a bit of disappointment that a knockout of some kind wasn’t scored. I felt Jones should have been able to do that against this opponent.

The Jones attachment is just bio info added. Nothing done with ratings.

Rocco