[Rocco Del Sesto]

Frankie Daniels - USA
1948-1964

37 wins / 35 losses / 6 draws / 22 KO

Hometown: Bakersfield, CA

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

A busy trailhorse of the 50's and early 60's with a decent punch and chin but was just never good enough to beat the higher contenders, though he got a good number of chances againts some of the top heavyweights of the time period.

Up through probably the prime of his career he put together a respectable 33-14-2 record. Guys that he fought that are in the game or been rated by others he mostly lost against. He did beat Eddie Cotton and Young Jack Johnson and drew with Howard King, but he lost fights to Bob Murphy, Jimmy Beau, Clarence Henry, Lloyd Marshall, Bob Satterfield(twice), Eddie Cotton, Archie Moore, and Cleveland Williams.

After loosing a 10 round UD to Williams and then winning 3 fights in late 1957 by KO, his career then started taking a new direction getting taking on fights with many more opponents who we've seen rated in the game. Unfortunately, these fights were probably taken on after his career abilities would appear to have peaked and during this latter stage he only mustered a 4-21-4 record! The only noteable wins were against Bob Baker and Ulli Nitzschke. He drew fights with Lou Bailey, Ulli Ritter and Federico Friso. The list of opponents lost to is quite long....Cleveland Williams, Sonny Liston, George Chuvalo, Ernie Terrell, Erich Schoppner, George Logan, Karl Mildenberger, Sante Amonti, Franco DePiccoli, Wim Snoek, Ulli Nitzschke, Wayne Bethea, Johnny Prescott, Wim Snoek, Werner Wiegand, Albert Westphal.

Some other guys he was able to beat who had a decent looking record at the time, though the quality of the opponent probably not of much stature were Rodney Jones(13-1-0), Lonnie Malone(14-2-3), John C. Curtis(13-7-2), Sonny Andrews(13-8-1), Bob Dunlap(31-9-1). Some other losses were to Sylvester Perkins(26-7-1), Willie Bean(39-19-4), Joe Dorsey(14-3-1), Peter Bates(29-12-4), Alonzo Johnson(21-11-0) and Plinio Scarabellin(27-3-0).

Enjoy...
Rocco