[Rocco Del Sesto]

Our first fight for Friday the 20th between 2 fighters we've seen in the game already, one that I rated sometime earlier and one originally in the game.

01/20/67 Friday
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Amos Lincoln – HW (36-5-3) vs. Archie Ray - HW (20-8-2)
Both of these fighters are on the down side of modestly successful careers in the 1950’s and 1960’s. For Lincoln, he’s got about 3 more years to go with several very noteworthy opponents. His most recent fight, in October 1966 he lost a 10 round unanimous decision to Johnny Persol at Madison Square Garden. Previous to that he’d defeated Elmer Rush in consecutive fights and won a 10 round decision over Billy Daniels. Archie Ray’s career will actually end itself this year, but later in 1967 we see him fight 4 more times and those to against pretty recognizable names. He’s in the mist of a streak though that will include 9 straight losses to end his career. That downward streak started back in May 1966 with a loss to Manuel Ramos. That was followed by two consecutive losses to Boone Kirkman in September and October and the then in December was Ko’d in the 5th round by Dave Zyglewicz to lead into this fight with Lincoln. This fight between Lincoln and Ray was apparently a very tough close fight as Lincoln won a 10 round split decision.
Our replay was really a disappointment. The first round say very little action from both fighters for the first couple of minutes. Each of them finally started landing a few punches over the last 1/3 of the round but it all added up to a point total of 8-6 in Lincoln’s favor. Judge one scored 10-9 for Ray? Then the second round and a quick sudden unexpected ending just like we saw in our last fight between Dante Cane and Memphis Al Jones. 17 seconds into the 2nd and Lincoln lands a combination that drops Ray to the canvas and KO in the 2nd round for Amos Lincoln. Almost an exact same kind of ending as the Cane/Jones fight!

I've gone ahead and posted files for them. For Ray just to put him here for easy access again. Lincoln is originally in the game, I've just added some by info.

Rocco

Forgot to mention the Lincoln file is the game original. I just added the bio info.

Rocco