[Rocco Del Sesto]

So, ran across an article in the Sat, Jun 06, 1936 The Caledonian-Record that is discussing Hub Parker's decision that he wants to manage himself and he wants to change his name to Kid Parker, the name that he says he used before coming to Newport and began going by Hub Parker! The article mentions that Parker boasts of a career of more than 400 public fights and has never been KO'd. So how much of the 400+ fights is made up by Parker?

So then I searched BoxRec for Kid Parker. There's a bunch of them but one right near the top of the list stood out. Kid Parker 1933-1933, Residence Burlington, Vermont. So I opened this Kid Parker up and he has one fight listed against a Walt Neal on April 5, 1933 says in barre Arena, Barre. I looked up Neal, saw a quick referenced to this fight but think it said in Burlington? So I did some searching of Kid Parker in 1933 newspapers and am finding a good number of articles on fights by a Kid Parker from Rochester! Remeber the Feb 7, 1936 Express and Standard, Newport article that introduces us to Parker starting against Bill Stewart and that article mentioned Parker's home town was Rochester, NY where he fought before moving to Newport.

So could very well be a wealth of fights for Parker pre 1936 under the "Kid" Parker moniker.