New Non-HW Boxers Rated

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ROBERTO PEREZ (photo in other thread)

Hometown - Houston, Texas

1(1)-16-0

Perez fought infrequently from 1974 to 1983 as a lightweight in Texas. His string of knockout losses included beatings at the hands of Sean O'Grady and Ruben Castillo. Ten years and fifty pounds after his first retirement, Perez traveled to MA to take a heavyweight bout against Peter McNeeley. Surprisingly, Perez lasted to the third round which says more about McNeeley than it does about Perez' skills.

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Originally posted by CONN CHRIS:
Three more requests if anyone has them rated:


Connie Curry

Bill Speary

Willie Ritchie

Thanks guys,

If nobody has these I may try to rate then over the weekend.

CONN

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ERWIN WILLIAMS (photo in other thread)

10(7)-4-1

Hometown - San Carlos, California

Williams was a marginal local fighter in the San Francisco area. Erwin had a little power and a fair chin: he was stopped only three times and none earlier than the fourth round. He fought as both a light-heavy and a middleweight. He TKO'd James Waire at the middleweight level to take the California Title in 1981.

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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

ERWIN WILLIAMS (photo in other thread)

10(7)-4-1

Hometown - San Carlos, California

Williams was a marginal local fighter in the San Francisco area. Erwin had a little power and a fair chin: he was stopped only three times and none earlier than the fourth round. He fought as both a light-heavy and a middleweight. He TKO'd James Waire at the middleweight level to take the California Title in 1981.

Little known fact ... he went on to develop paint.

[CONN CHRIS]

I think that was his brother Sherwin

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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

I think that was his brother Sherwin

At least your starting to catch on to my stupid sense of humor

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CONNIE CURRY (photo in other thread)

Hometown - Siox City, Iowa

9(2)-5-6; 4 NC

Curry had a brief but interesting career during the roaring twenties. Connie was a contemporary of Newsboy Brown (Davie Montrose) both growing up and learning to box in Sioux City. Curry became a local favorite when he was called on to join Jack Dempsey's vacation camp in Great Falls, Montana while Dempsey was perparing for a World Heavyweight Title defense against Tommy Gibbons.

Curry and Newsboy Brown knew each other well and faced each other officialy as professionals on five occations. The results were a ten round decision for each, one draw and two no contests for the series. Curry was a good defensive fighter who went the distance in all of his bouts with the exception of his two knockout victories and his lone stoppage to Pete Sarmiento. The referee stopped the Sarmiento bout in the sixth due to a broken hand suffered by Curry in the fifth.

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JOHNNY VACCA (photo in other thread)

Born - Italy
Hometown - Boston, MA

30(2)-21-5; 2 NC

Vacca's record is deceptive due to the quality of the opponents that he faced. He squared off against the best of his era: Panama Al Brown, Kid Chocolate, Fidel LaBarba, Newsboy Brown and Pete Zivic.

Most Impressive were Vacca's three bouts with Fidel LaBarba. Although the title was not on the line, Vacca defeated LaBarba in two consecutive 10 round decisions early in 1927. When they met for a third time in August of the same year, LaBarba got the better winning a 10 round decision.

In between the first two and the final fights with LaBarba, Vacca faced Newsboy Brown in Los Angeles for what both hoped would be a launch pad to the World Flyweight Title. Brown won a ten round decision, but LaBarba was in the midst of stalling with the title in his back pocket as he took eight consecutive non-title bouts including the three with Vacca.

Vacca had a tough time financialy, despite his good showings in the ring and for much of his career worked the Boston streets with his trained monkey as an organ grinder to make ends meet.

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JOSE TALAMANTEZ (photo in other thread)

Hometown - San Jose, California

4(1)-5-0

Talamantez dabbled with boxing for a few years on the West Coast with limited results. A string 5 losses (4 by KO) put an end to his experiment.

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ROSALIO MURO (photo in other thread)

Birth place - Mexico

3(2)-6-0

Muro won three quick bouts in 1975 then dropped the remainder of his fights. KO losses to Salvador Sanchez and Jose Torres finished his career. His fourth fight was a TKO loss to the great Alexis Arguello at the Cow Palace. He fought quite a few quality opponents for such a short career.

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Patri's 16 thru 18th fights....

Patri's 16th fight..... 1980-06-06 Gral Acha, Argentina

vs. Miguel Angel Lazarte 43-22-15 (8)
This is the first fight of four between these two, actual results ended in a draw, replay results were the same Draw10 although Lazarte landed more punches and had a better percentage of shots landed.

Patri's 17th fight.... 1980-06-19 Posadas, Argentina

vs. Felix Colman 4-9-1 (1)
Actual results Colman wins U10, replay Patri wins U10.

Patri's 18th fight.... 1980-07-18 Villa Maria, Argenti

vs. Carlos Reyes Sosa 1-8-0 (0)
Actual results Sosa wins U10, replay same Sosa wins U10.

Patri's record at this time in real life was 10-5-3 (3) and in the replay so far his record stands at 12-5-1 (4)

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Patri's next 8 fights only includes four new boxers.

Patri's 19th fight.... 1980-08-22 La Plata, Argentina

vs. Jose Luis Lopez 1-10-1 (1)
Actual results Patri wins UD10, same in the replay.

Patri's 20th fight.... 1980-09-26 La Plata, Argentina
vs. Jose Ibiris (the third meeting between these two)actual Patri wins UD10, in the replay Patri wins a MD10. Ibiris posted earlier in the thread.

Patri's 21st fight.... 1980-11-08 Buenos Aires, Argentina

vs. Hermogenes Murillo 12-18-1 (7)
Actual result Patri wins UD10, same in the replay.

Patri's 22nd fight.... 1981-01-15 Salta, Argentina
The second fight with Ruben Osvaldo Condori (rated in the game at BW) Actual result was a Tech. Draw after 3, replay Condori wins MD10. That makes two wins for Condori in my replay when in real life at this time, Condori and Patri had fought to 2 draws.

Patri's 23rd fight.... 1981-04-11 La Plata, Argentina

vs. Rodolfo Rodriguez 54-23-13 (15) this will be the first of five fights between these two. Actual result Patri wins UD12, Patri pulls off a MD12 in the replay.

Patri's 24th fight.... 1981-06-12 La Plata, Argentina

vs. Alex Miranda 6-11-3 (4)
Actual result Patri wins on the scorecards after 7 due to the fight being stopped by head butt, replay Miranda wins UD10.

Patri's 25th fight.... 1981-07-24 Argentina - fourth fight against Jose Ibiris, actual result Patri wins UD10 and same result in the replay.

Patri's 26th fight.... 1981-10-09 La Plata, Argentina - six months after the first bout against Rodolfo Rodriguez. Actual result Rodriguez wins TD8 and in the replay Rodriguez wins by TKO9.

Patri's career record at this point in real life 16-6-4 (3) and in the replay his record stands at 17-8-1 (4).

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UMIO GEN (photo in other thread)

22(4)-22-13 1 NC

Gen was a Korean born boxer that fought for Japan's Imperial Boxing Club and was later managed by Jes Cortez. Gen possessed great courage, speed and footwork but was completely lacking in power. Newspaper accounts called his style one of "boring in" relentlessly on opponents. From 1934 to 1937 he fought exclusively in the Far East (Japan, Korea and the Philippines) amassing a record of 15-6-5 1NC. During this period he won the Japanese Bantamweight and Featherweight Titles

In August of 1937, Gen traveled to America where he engaged in 21 bouts over an eighteen month period. The results were not good with Gen going 3-12-6 on his US swing. Nineteen of his bouts went the distance and his opponent list read like a who's who list including Kid Covelli, Pablo Dano, Baby Arizmendi, Pete DeGrasse, Tony Chavez and Billy Buxton. Some have said that with his skills, beter management would have made him a sure contender.

Following his decision loss to Clever Henry in Honolulu, Gen headed back to Japan where he fought 10 more bouts before retiring for good in 1946.

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JO TEIKEN (also spelled Joe) [photo in other thread]

Born Jung-Kwon Suh in Chunranamdo, Korea

46(13)-26-17 3 NC

Teiken traveled to Tokoyo at the age of 17 to attend Meiji University and soon took up boxing with his pro debut coming in 1931 at the age of 18. Jo fought well in Tokoyo amassing a record of 18-0-8. He was a defensively gifted boxer with a strong chin (only stopped twice in 91 career bouts). Unfortunately, prospects of a title shot in Japan werre slim due to his Korean heritage.

In 1932, Jo traveled to America hoping for a title shot and more money. Unfortunately niether materialized. Jo did fight for the California title and lost to Speedy Dado and was involved in bantamweight elimination tournament for the vacated title. While in the U.S., he won impressively agaist Speedy Dado (non-title bout), Small Montana, and Star Frisco.

In 1935, Teiken headed back to Japan where he laced the gloves up for eleven more bouts before calling it quits. His only notable fight in this period was a bout with Piston Horiguchi who handed Jo his second career stoppage by way of a fourth round TKO.

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The Strawweight division is very thin in the game. I have created a few tomato can / stiff packs to fill out bottom of the division and am now working on filling in some of the better fighters that have been left out of the game. I worked these three up tonight:

Napa Kiatwanchai

Eagle Kyowa

Wandee Singwancha

All three were WBC Champions that have yet to be rated