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A South African HW
Here's a guy that I actually rated when I was messing around with TF2001 and forgot about him until I was messing around here today with some things. He held the South African HW Title for a period of time in the 1960's. By his record he would appeared to have had a decent punch, but his own chin must have been rather glassy. Also, it looked like he would resort to less then clean cut tactics in the ring.
These ratings are not play tested extensively, but, looking at them and knowing a little more about things with the resent guys I've rated for TBCB they look like they'd be in a decent range for him.
Gerry De Bruyn 1 Overall Rating
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Record: 15-14-2, 13KO
Lost to Mike Holt(54-19-4) for the South African LHW Title in 1963. Defeated by 7th round KO, Billy Lotter(29-7-0) for the South African Heavyweight Title on May 2nd, 1966. Defended that title successfully on May 30th 1966 against Ewald De Waal(3-6-1), then against Gert Van Heerden(46-6-0) Dec. 1966, Tom Miller(2-7-1) Feb. 1967 and again in July 1967 before being loosing a 10 round decision for the title against Jan Pieterse(12-3-0) in July 1968. During that title reign, he also lost a 10 round decision to Eduardo Corletti in 1967 and a 1st round KO to Buster Mathis in Dec. 1967.
De Bruyn, after loosing the South African Heavyweight Title to Jan Pieterse also lost by 7th round disqualification to Pieterse in March 1969 with the two battling for the South African LHW Title. De Bruyn then lsot to a Japie Pretorius(6-15-0) by 4th round KO in June 1969 for the South African HW Title. DeBruyn's last two career fights were KO's to Jimmy Richards(27-11-4).
Enjoy,
Rocco
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