[Rocco Del Sesto]

Larry Renaud Rating 1 Canada
Heavyweight 1960-74
19 wins / 19 losses / 0 draws / 7 KO

Alias: Renault
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

BoxRec shows Renaud in the ring for the first time in November 1948 listed as a lightweight at 127 pounds fighting lightweight Joey Ortega(24-14-11,9). Ortega stopped Renaud in the 3rd round. We then pick up Renaud's career 12 years later in September 1960 when he faces off against LHW Herschel Jacobs who is starting off his career. Renaud wins the 6 round decision over Jacobs and then goes on to win two more 6 round decisions over Benito Favatto(7-6-0,2) and Bobby Croxon. After the Croxon fight, Renaud is absent from the ring for two years until Ocotber 1963 when he then looses two straight to Charlie Lee(1-10-1,0) and Jim Christopher in October 63 and October 1964. Finally in March 1965 he gets his up to then choppy career going stringing together 11 straight wins through September 1967. That string includes wins over Gordon Baldwin, Earl Pilgrim, Jean-Claude Roy twice, and Abe DAvis.

Then three days after beating Davis, on Sept 10th 1967 Renaud fights Bill Drover who is 3-2 in his early career. Those two fight a 10 rounder with Drover getting the decision. Renaud fights once more in 1967 getting stopped in the 1st round by Forest Ward(9-2-2,7) in Madison Square Garden. It's Renaud's first fight outside of Canada if you don't count that stint as a lighweight back in 48 which was held in Seattle, Washington. It's back to Canada then with two fights, both wins in 1968, one against Leslie Borden. Renaud then dissappears for 3-1/2 years.

Finally in June 1972 Renaud comes out of seclusion again to fight Bill Drover again. Drover stops Renaud at 2:07 of the 7th round. Including that fight on through the remainder of his career Renauld manages only a 3-14-0,1KO record as he takes on some better competition that he can't match up against. The only wins are over Jimmy(Red) Johnson and John L. Carter(8-5-1,5) twice. Losses mounted up against the likes of Richard Dunn, Roy Wallace, Boone Kirkman, James Helwig twice, Oscar Bonavena, Scott LeDoux, Leon Shaw(22-18-1,11), Randy Neumann and Alfio Righetti.