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Originally Posted by johnpahl
Hi Cap,
I hope that's 4 out of five!
His record was won 28 (KO 21) + lost 5 (KO 1) + drawn 6 = 39.
You can see his record here:
Packy Paul
He only fought five more times and sporadically after leaving England.
Grampaw was rated #12 in the world as a pro heavyweight in 1939 by Ring Magazine. His brother Dan was rated #11.
Always happy to find his name on the internet though.
Thanks,
John |
Welcome to our forum!
John, I'm the one chiefly responsible for fleshing out his record on Boxrec.com. I dug up some unrecorded fights and entered others found by fellow historian Miles Templeton.
When I say I rate him a 4, that's with Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali rated 15. I have little to go on except for fight reports in old newspapers, but he strikes me as good enough to easily be a Canadian or Commonwealth cruiserweight champion if he were fighting today. Kinda like Dale Brown. He didn't really get to fight a world ranked heavyweight until Wenstob (top ten in 1938) in 1941. I don't have access to papers from this period, so I don't know if he entered the military or just couldn't get any matches until 1946 (not certain of the '42 bout).
Do you have a good photograph of him and/or his brother Danny in their prime?
Cap