European fighters

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Bjarne Lingaas - Rating 4 Norway
Heavyweight 1960, 1965-66
9 wins / 0 losses / 0 draws / 2 KO

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Actually fought his first fight in May 1960 winning a 4 round decision against an Isaac Thomas. Lingaas did not fight again til June 1965. Between then and June 1966 he fought 8 times winning all 8 fights including a 6 round decision over Valere Mahau and a 5th round DQ victory over Wim Snoek. He won decisions over Andre Wyns, Kurt Stroer and Manfred Ackers before he quit the boxing scene.

[David Myers]

Nigerian-born bantamweight who fought out of Italy. Born 1948. Fought from 1971 to 1977. Record: 24-1-0 (12).

Commonwealth amateur champion at flyweight in Jamaica 1966 and at bantamweight in Edinburgh 1970. Beat Paul Ferreri for Commonwealth (professional) bantamweight title in January 1977. ****tu was knocked out in the fifth round of his next fight by Mario Castro, and never fought again.

[CONN CHRIS]

PAT THOMAS JMW (1970-1984)

Born - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Hometown - Cardiff, Wales, UK

35(14)-18-3; 1 NC

Thomas won the British Welterweight title by knocking out Pat McCormick in 1975. 1976 was a busy year for Pat as he defended and then lost the British title and lost a bid for the EBU Welterweight title to Marco Scano in Italy. Following an unsuccessful attempt at the Commonwealth Jr Middleweight title, Pat landed the British JMW belt with a TKO over Jimmy Batten. After two defenses, he lost his belt to Herol Graham in 15 rounds. Other notable bouts include a draw with Tony Sibson and a fourth round stoppage loss to Nino LaRocca.

[CONN CHRIS]

PAT THOMAS JMW (1970-1984)

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Kurt Stroer - Rating 1 Germany
Heavyweight 1961-72
20 wins / 14 losses / 4 draws / 8 KO

Birthplace: Wilbach, Germany

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Eurpean HW fighting his entire career in Europe. He won fights against Horst Herold, Finn Jensen, Dnilo Zoratti,Valere Mahau,, Roland Graetz, Lars Olov Norling, Albert Duscha, Carl Welscha, Lion Ven, Klaus Krueger, Freddy Hubert, Antonio Rimasti and Manfred Ackers twice. He lost fights to Giuseppe Migliari, Franco De PIccoli, Piero Tomasoni, Billy Walker, Paul Roux, Rudolf Nehring, Yvan Prebeg, Vittorio Saraudi and Jose Manuel Urtain. He fought draws also with Norling, Horst Benedens, Nehring.

[David Myers]

Danish heavyweight. Born 1940. Fought from 1966 to 1970. Record: 22-6-1 (16).

Except for two bouts in Sweden, Jacobsen fought exclusively in Copenhagen. He knocked out Lion Ven, tko'd previously unbeaten Vittorio Verrengia, and outpointed Dave Ould and Harry Kneipp. He was knocked out by Rudolph Vaughan, Bunny Johnson, and Roy Enifer.

[Tosti]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

PAT THOMAS JMW (1970-1984)

Chris, here's another pic of Pat Thomas

[CONN CHRIS]

Originally Posted by Tosti

Chris, here's another pic of Pat Thomas

That is much better, thank you.

JUAN FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ BW (1976-1982)

Hometown - Almeria, Spain

20(9)-9-4; 1 NC

Rodriguez had an up-and-down career. His best years were bracketed by two failed attempts to secure the Spanish Bantamweight Title four years apart. Both times, Rodriguez lost to Esteban Eguia; on a DQ in 1977 and by way of ten round decision in 1981. In the years between, Rodriguez' career was a bit of a wild ride.

In late 1977, Juan Francisco received a chance at the WBC title but was stopped in five by Carlos Zarate. The following year, he defeated a very good fighter in Franco Zurlo to secure the European Title. He would go on to defend the title twice, winning a controversial and foul-plagued mixed decision over Johnny Owen and a second decision win over Laurent Grimbert. The title passed from Rodriguez by way of unanimous decision in a rematch with Johnny Owen. Rodriguez received one more shot at the EBU title when it was vacated due to the death of Johnny Owen in his WBC title bid against Lupe Pintor. Unfortunately for Rodriguez, he was out pointed by Valerio Nati in Italy.

Other bouts of note for Rodriguez were an eight round decision over Isidoro Cabeza, an eight round loss to Mike Irungu and a stoppage loss to Loris Stecca as Juan Francisco's ring career was in decline.

[CONN CHRIS]

JUAN FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ BW (1976-1982)

This is an awful picture. Rodriguez is on the left in this grainy photo with Owen to the right. I am at the 'bad' computer and cannot even crop and re-size. I was hopeful that someone would be able to do what they can with it or better yet, locate a decent picture.

[Tosti]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

JUAN FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ BW (1976-1982)

This is an awful picture. Rodriguez is on the left in this grainy photo with Owen to the right. I am at the 'bad' computer and cannot even crop and re-size. I was hopeful that someone would be able to do what they can with it or better yet, locate a decent picture.

Alternative pic of Rodriguez

[hamed]

Originally Posted by David Myers

Nigerian-born bantamweight who fought out of Italy. Born 1948. Fought from 1971 to 1977. Record: 24-1-0 (12).

Commonwealth amateur champion at flyweight in Jamaica 1966 and at bantamweight in Edinburgh 1970. Beat Paul Ferreri for Commonwealth (professional) bantamweight title in January 1977. ****tu was knocked out in the fifth round of his next fight by Mario Castro, and never fought again.

Interesting fighter here David. Are the 1st 4 letters of his last name listed like that because they begin with an "F" & end with a "K"? Reminds me of the old "firetruck" joke.

[hamed]

Never mind David, LOL! I see I was thinking of the wrong 4 letter word.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Heini Meinhardt Rating 4 France
Middleweight 1961-66
31 wins / 3 losses / 1 draw / 11 KO

Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Meinhardt is shown as a Light Heavyweight in Boxrec based on his last handfull of fights and I'm sure that his very last career fight was getting KO'd in the 8th round by Lothar Stengel in a bout for the German Light Heavyweight Title. The majorit of his career would look to be fought as a middleweight and thus his rating here in that division.

Meinhardt was 14-0-0 in May 1963,when he defeated Manfred Hass in a 12 round decision for the then vacant German Middleweight Title. After 3 more victories he successfuly defended his title against Klaus Stockmann in November 1963 knocking out Stockman in the 9th round. After an 8 round decision win over Jean Ruellet, Meinhardt went into the ring in April 1964 to defend his middleweight title for a second time. This time it was against veteran Peter Muller. Muller Knocked Meinhardt out in the 5th round to take the title away. Meinhardt never fought again for a title in the middleweight division. After 4 more fights, including his 2nd career loss, this to Bo Hogberg in October 1964, Meinhardt then made the move up to the light heavyweight class. From March 1965 through the title fight with Stengel, he won 8 consecutive fights including defeats of Lion Ven, Erich Walter twice, and Danilo Zoratti twice.

[David Myers]

Jamaica lightweight. Born 1940. Fought from 1958 to 1976. Record: 29-27-3 (9).

Commonwealth lightweight champion, 1968-1976. Hayles won the title from Love Allotey in July 1968 and defended it successfully four times, beating Jeff White, Al Ford (twice), and Manny Santos, before losing the belt to Jonathan Dele in July 1976. Three-and-a-half years before winning the title he lost a shot at it, dropping a decision to Bunny Grant in February 1965. He also lost a WBA/WBC junior welterweight title bout to Carlos Hernandez in July 1965; Hayles was knocked out in the third.

[David Myers]

Ghanese lightweight. Born 1936. Fought from 1958 to 1975. Record: 35-18-3 (5).

Commonwealth lightweight champion, 1967-1968. Allotey decisioned Bunny Grant in October 1967 to win the crown, then lost it in July 1968 to Percy Hayles. Allotey lost an earlier shot at a Commonwealth belt, dropping a decision to Floyd Robertson for the featherweight title in August 1962. He also met Flash Elorde for the WBA/WBC junior lightweight title in November 1963, but was disqualified for headbutting.

Bob Allotey's older brother?

[David Myers]

Not a great picture of Love Allotey, but at least it is something. If anyone can find something better, that'd be great.

[David Myers]

Light heavyweight from the Bahamas. Born 1943. Fought from 1960 to 1982. Record: 36-17-2 (16).

Lost Commonwealth light heavyweight title bouts to John Conteh in October 1973 and to Tony Mundine in March 1976.

[David Myers]

Swiss light heavy. Born 1947. Fought from 1970 to 1975. Record: 20-1-1 (17).

Nussbaum's only loss was a fourth round KO at the hands of Leo Kakolewicz in March 1974.

[David Myers]

Polish light heavyweight who fought out of Germany. Born 1950. Career: 1973-1978. Record: 18-9-1 (12).

German light heavyweight champion, 1975-1978. Lost EBU light heavyweight championship match to Domenico Adinolfi in May 1976.

In my database, I have a biography file for Adinolfi as created by "TF2001, adjusted by Mark Elwood." But I have no ratings for Adinolfi. Does anyone have a .tbdx file for him?

[David Myers]

Fijian welterweight. Born 1955. Fought from 1975 to 2000. Record: 61-19-6 (36).

Lost three Commonwealth welterweight title bouts: twice to Clyde Gray (in August 1978 via TKO and in December 1978 via KO) and to Colin Jones (via KO in September 1982).