So while looking at some of the Extra players I'd done with this January 58 Ring project, I've come across two earlier postings in this HW Boxers thread by LeeSky where he posted some fighters from down under that I see I have in my data base. Boy this goes back a few years! May take some time and go through these few fighters and see what I can update for bio/fighter info since I've got the Ring magazines from the period to look up and see what I can find. Do some updating and posting as I've been doing with some of the other ratings by others on this forum.
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Originally Posted by LeeSkye
I posted a pic of Fossie Schmidt that I took from a cover I found online of a 1954 issue of Australian Ring Digest. It called him the Samoan Sensation. I guess he must have been pretty good to be featured on a cover but his BoxRec record shows only 6 fights. He won 4, all by KO, and he lost his 2 by KO so there must have been fireworks when he fought. But talk about 6 degrees of separation! To compare him, I had to find a fighter he fought...who fought a guy...who fought a guy...who fought a guy in our database! He and the other guys around him seem to all have pretty good power but I don't know if that is truly representative of their talent or just fighting in their own little world. If anyone has any info to tweak these ratings it would be appreciated. And I can only hope that one of our Aussie friends might have access to a copy of this magazine to give us more insight. All these fighters fought in Australia, New Zealand and the surrounding South Sea Islands. I'll try and do more of these fighters when I can.
Fossie Schmidt
Steve Zoranich
Harold Davis
Ross Jenkins [another with only 2 wins in 5 fights but all end in KO!]
Rudy Crivic
Barry Chalker
Isimeli Radrodro
Jim Woods
Ken Brady
Joveci Bau
Allen Williams [Held Australian Heavyweight Title and New South Wales State Heavyweight Title]
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