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Gerhard Zech's 35th fight.... 1965-05-15 Frankfurt, Germany
Gerhard Zech (32-1-1) vs Joe Shelton (8-7-2)
Joe Shelton - 1 Overall Rating
Nationality- United States
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Career, 1960-72
BoxRec. 028390
Record 13 wins / 14 losses / 2 draws / 8 KO
Shelton managed wins over Dick Hall(36-9-3,16KO) a Southpaw journeyman who compiled a nice looking career who's rated in the game, and an 8 round decision over Mariano Echevarria(37-55-11,14KO) who was the Spanish HW Title holder on various occassions from the late 50's on thru into the early 70's. The rest of his wins were against guys who didn't amount to much.
Shelton's losses included two to Gerhard Zech and two against Hubert Hilton, a fellow who looked to pack a decent punch who's career started out 13-1-2 with two wins against Shelton and wins also against Roberto Davila, Johnny Prescott, and Jack Bodell. Hilton is an interesting looking HW. There happens to be a picture of him in my 1970 Ring Record Book. I think I'm going to give him a try rating. I think he'd be an nice addition to the game.
Shelton also had an 8 round draw with Billy Daniels. He also lost against Vittorio Saraudi(27-3-2,15KO) who was the Italian LHW Title holder from 1965-69, and Bert Whitehurst(32-26-6,16KO), a journeyman HW from the 50's to early 60's who fought a number of the "name" heavyweights of the period.
Shelton would appear to have a decent punch with a modest chin. I simmed him agains 1-3 HW's for results comparison to his record. He was stopped 5 times in his career.
An interesting thing I discovered along the way to setting up Shelton that leads me to a question maybe someone else can answer and confirm. I happened to look in my battered up copy of the 1970 Ring Record Book just to see if any wild chance there was a picture of Shelton. No picture, but what I do find is that he's listed in the book as Joe Sheldon, not Shelton! Now that jives with his alias shown in BoxRec. Shotgun Sheldon. I wondered why he'd be called that with the last name Shelton. I looked around a little bit on the web to see if I could find any reference to Joe to confirm Shelton or Sheldon. All I found was on Cyber Zone Boxing they had a bio on Hubert Hilton and in his record they list Shelton as Shelton.
Does anyone else have any publications from that time period that would confirm Shelton or Sheldon?
Control vs Boxer--6
Control vs Slugger--5
Hitting power--5
Chin vs knockdown--3
Chin vs knockout--3
Recovery--3
Cuts--3
Absorb punishment--3
Killer instinct--4
Aggressiveness--6
Endurance--8
Defense--2
Fast starter--2
Fight on ropes--2
Draw power--3
Conditioning--4
Intellect--5
Proficiency--10
Fight inside--1
Outside--2
Cover up--2
Go for KO--1
Clinching--68
Style-- Slugger
Fouls--Seldom
Punches 2-pt. 3-pt.
Jabs 16.75 1.75
Hooks 18.00 4.75
Crosses 24.75 4.75
Combinations 5.50 0.00
Uppercuts 21.50 2.75
Punching--32
Counterpunching--32
Missed--64
Zech must have decided to fight Shelton along with Dave Bailey later on in 1965 to keep himself in prime shape or something before his big fight in November 1965 against Karl Mildenberger for the European HW Title.
Anyway, in this scheduled 8 round affair with Shelton, the American manages to go the full distance with Gerhard before bowing to a decision loss to the German.
In my replay, a bit different results. The rounds are all close, but Gerhard methodically administers a beating to Shelton such the referee stopped it at 2:58 of the 5th round for a TKO win for Gerhard upping his record here in our replay to 33-1-1.
Next up will be Dave Bailey who I happened to notice he is in fact rated in the game already!
So come see us soon in Hamburg, Germany for the bout between...
Gerhard Zech(33-1-1) vs Dave Bailey(14-14-3)
Here's his import file if you wish to add Shelton to your files...
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