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1948 European Heavyweight Tournament
The 5th bout up in the tournament we've looked at both fighters before.
Paco Bueno 23 2 0 W PTS 6/6 Jan Declercq 4 5 0
So We'll move on to the 6th fight.....
Gabriel Bigotte 6 1 0 W TKO 1/6 Jaroslav Behounek debut
This fight maybe show just how true it might be Cap's observation that in the late 40's the world and especially Europe were just beginning to recover from World War II.
Jaroslav Behounek - HW - Czech Republic
Career Record: W0(KO 0) / L2(KO 1) / D0
Unknown information has been left blank.
DOB has been estimated.
First career listed fight was against Gabriel Bigotte in the 1st round of the 1948 European Heavyweight Tournament. Gigotte stopped Jaroslav in the 1st round.
2nd fight was in Jan 1950 loosing 6 round decision to Ernest Chalono.
Gabriel Bigotte - HW - France
Career Record: W8(KO 8) / L10(KO 4) / D0
Unknown information has been left blank.
DOD has been estimated on BoxRec.
Original Rating by Tiger Fan
Fought in the 1948 European Heavyweight Tournament, winning in the first round stopping Jaroslav Behournek in the first round. Bigotte then was KO'd in round 1 in the 2nd round of the tourny by Aaron Wilson.
Other fights of interest were all losses to Giovanni Martin, Carl Nielsen twice, Oiva Purho, Paco Bueno, Don Cockell, Raymond Degl'Innocenti and Al Bernard.
Included website found had the photo of Bigotte. Confirms he was born in Grenay but lists his birth date as June 21, 1921. As an amateur fighter the article says he fought 200 time winning 197 by knockout and was beaten 3 times on points. In April 1947 he won the title Champion de France. Says he fought as a heavyweight, so that and some of his listed fight weights in BoxRec would believe it an error in BoxRec listing him as a light heavy.
It says in that web article that Gabriel apparently was almost on the plane that crashed and killed Marcel Cerdan and Ginette Neveu.
He seem to fight up and down opponents between MW's and Heavyweight's. Maybe reason for BoxRec calling him a LHW. But the website I found and include in his file notes him as a heavyweight.
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