European fighters

[David Myers]

Berlin light heavy and heavyweight. (I've rated him as a light heavy, because that is the weight at which he fought for the EBU title.) Born: 1942. Fought from 1963 to 1972. Record: 27-11-3 (17).

German heavyweight amateur champion, 1962. TKO'd by Piero del Papa in November 1970 EBU light heavyweight title bout. TKO'd Peter Weiland two months later for German heavyweight title.

[David Myers]

Swedish heavyweight. Born 1935. Fought from 1957 to 1962. Record: 11-3-2 (5).

Beat leading European heavyweight contenders Ulli Ritter, Bruno Scarabellin, and Horst Niche and knocked Karl Mildenberger down three times (before injuring his elbow and losing on a TKO). He also lost to Alonzo Johnson and Young Jack Johnson (a.k.a. John Lee Storey).

[thebadguy]

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[David Myers]

Scottish light heavy. Born 1930. Fought from 1951 to 1958. Record: 32-19-2 (21).

Beat Dick Tiger, Alex Buxton, and Albert Finch, but never got a shot at the Commonwealth or EBU titles.

[David Myers]

Good local fighters, both. Neither fought outside of Australia, although both seemed to be main-event fighters in Melbourne.

<b>Trevor King</b> lost only once in 52 career bouts with 27 knockouts. Born 1930. Fought from 1946 to 1960.

<b>Barry Hatcher</b> lost to King, but compiled a record of 29-6-1 (11). Also born 1930. Fought from 1950 to 1959.

[David Myers]

Spanish flyweight. Fought from 1965 to 1972. Record: 14-13-6 (6).

Spanish flyweight champion, 1970-1972. Lost EBU flyweight title bouts in December 1970 to Fernando Atzori, and in June 1972 to Fritz Chervet.

[David Myers]

Another Spanish flyweight. With a very odd career. Born 1945. Fought from 1969 through 1985. Record: 30-29-3 (8).

Spanish flyweight champion, 1972-1974 and 1976. Lost in EBU flyweight title bouts to Fritz Chervet in October 1972 and to Franco Udella in May 1978.

After his loss to Udella, Garcia won only three more bouts in six plus years. He came into that fight with a record of 27-8-3 (6). In the attached .tbdx file, he is rated through May 1978. Apparently Garcia was never the same after the Udella fight.

[David Myers]

French flyweight. Born 1938. Fought from 1963 to 1972. Record: 15-37-11 (4).

French flyweight champion, 1968-1969 and 1969-1972. Lost to Fernando Atzori in EBU flyweight title bout in August 1971.

[David Myers]

Spanish bantamweight. Born 1944. Fought from 1967 to 1972. Record: 40-0-1 (20).

Finished 22nd in the bantamweight division at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, then turned pro. Retired undefeated. Spanish bantamweight champion, 1970-1972. Won EBU bantamweight title from Alan Rudkin in August 1971. Successfully defended the title against Guy Caudron in February 1972 and Antonio Sassarini in September 1972--his last fight.

[David Myers]

Australian flyweight and bantamweight. Born 1949. Fought from 1966 to 1972. Record: 24-12-2 (10).

Australian flyweight champion, 1969-1970. Lost to Johnny McCluskey in June 1970 fight for vacant Commonwealth flyweight title. (Hayes's first loss in 19 fights.) Lost to Erbito Salavarria in February 1971 OPBF flyweight title bout.

[CONN CHRIS]

Very nice additions today David, thank you.

[David Myers]

Thanks, Chris. I hope you guys are getting some use from these. Here is another.

Roman bantam and featherweight. Born 1941. Fought from 1963 to 1972. Record: 38-9-4 (9).

Italian bantamweight champion, 1965-1966. EBU bantamweight champion, 1965-1966. EBU featherweight champion, 1969-1970. EBU junior lightweight champion, 1971-1972.

[djday45]

Thks again David, Just a quick update on my European pack of pre war fighters.
I have finished both the Heavy and Light Heavy divisions and am about to start the Middleweights. So far the pack has 75 files with the two divisions done.

Progress has been slow due to me spending more time with my own universe, but I am getting there.

rgds
Dean

[David Myers]

Dean,

I am being less systematic than you. I jump around from weight class to weight class to keep from getting bored. So far I've got over 100 European and Commonwealth fighters rated. Perhaps unlike you, I am including boxers who never fought for either title, but are interesting for other reasons. In order to be as comprehensive as possible, I will also include fighters rated by Rocco, Steve, Chris, and Mark. And not to overlap with you, I am including no fighters who participated in a European or Commonwealth title bout prior to 1945--even if they had a title bout <i>after</i> 1945 too.

[djday45]

Thks David, between us we should be able to expand the scope for universes in the time period considerably.

rgds
Dean

[David Myers]

Spanish featherweight. Born 1942. Fought from 1964 to 1974. Record: 45-15-5 (23).

Defeated Nevio Carbi in December 1968 to claim vacant EBU featherweight title. (Calvo tko'd Lother Abend to get to the title match.) He lost the title on a fifteenth-round TKO to Tommaso Galli in August 1969. Calvo is the father and trainer of Manuel Calvo Jr. (Boxrec id #006706), who won the vacant EBU featherweight title by beating Steve Robinson in May 2001.

[David Myers]

Italian lightweight. Born 1944. Fought from 1966 to 1979. Record: 65-8-1 (42).

EBU lightweight champion, 1971-1974. (Lost the title to Ken Buchanan.) Lost WBC lightweight title shot to Rodolfo Gonzalez in October 1973. Lost EBU junior lightweight title bout to Svein Erik Paulsen in June 1975.

[David Myers]

Italian featherweight. Born 1933. Fought from 1955 to 1964. Record: 25-9-5 (3).

Defeated Gracieux Lamperti in August 1962 to win EBU featherweight championship. Lost the title to Howard Winstone on a fourteenth-round TKO in July 1963--the only time he was stopped in his career.

[David Myers]

Scottish featherweight. Born 1943. Fought from 1963 to 1974. Record: 39-14-1 (30).

British featherweight champion, 1971-1972 and 1973-1974. Commonwealth featherweight champion, 1974. Armstrong defeated Bobby Dunne to win the Commonwealth belt in April 1974, and lost it to David Kotey in December 1974. Lost earlier shots at the Commonwealth featherweight title to Toro George in September 1971 and at the EBU featherweight championship to Jose Legra in February 1972.

[David Myers]

Native Cook Islander who fought as a featherweight out of New Zealand. Born 1943. Fought from 1965 to 1974. Record: 36-15-3 (11).

Never stopped in 54 career bouts. George captured the vacant Commonwealth featherweight title by TKO over Ken Bradley in December 1970. Successfully defended the title against Evan Armstrong before losing it to Bobby Dunne in November 1972.