[Rocco Del Sesto]

Getting back into the replay here after needing to catch up on some baseball league stuff....

01/09/67 Monday

Manchester, England
Zeke Ukario – MW (1-4-0) vs. Sean Dolan – LHW (3-0-0)


Zeke Ukario - UK Rating 1
Middleweight 1964-67

1 win / 5 losses / 0 draw / 1 KO

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

KO'd in 3 of his 5 losses. Fought a welterweight named Wesley Williams (7-9-0) in 3 of his fights. Wesley beat Zeke 2 out of 3.Lost a 6 round decision to light heavyweight Sean Dolan in his last career fight in Jan. 1967.


Sean Dolan - UK Rating 1
Light Heavyweight 1966-72

11 wins / 14 losses / 0 draw / 0 KO

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Well, not much to talk about here. Club fighter from the Manchester and London area it would look like by the location of his bouts in BoxRec. Fought a Ray Ako in 1968 for the British (Central Area) Light Heavyweight Title. Lost that fight by 3rd round KO. AFter starting out 9-1-0, Dolan began fighting some guys with a few fights under their belts and he couldn't stack up at all going 2-13-0. We're going to see this guy 9 times through the course of 1967! Oh wow!

The fight.....

Zeke was a Middleweight out of the south England area, possibly Liverpool where his first 2 career fights were staged. After compiling a 1-4 record in 1964-65, he’d not climbed into the ring for close to two years when he came out on this early Monday evening in Manchester to go up against a fairly new lightheavy club fighter named Sean Dolan. Dolan was 3-0 with three, 6 round decisions against other local Manchester fighters. Both of these fighters were not heavy hitters at all packing much punch so this fight would probably turn out to be more of who could just land the more punches to score points with. The real thing in 1967 turned out to be a 6 round decision win for Dolan. Our rematch here is not much different. After a close first round, with both fighters feeling each other out, Dolan was in control the rest of the way, landing punches at a 5-1 ratio to Ukario. The finally tally would have been further in Dolan’s favor had it not been him getting a point deducted for head butting in the 3rd round. Final judges scores had it 58-55, 59-54, 59-54 for the Unanimous Decision to Sean Dolan.

The next fight up, I need to back track one day to Sunday, the 8th. I'd missed a fight in the schedule between a couple Italian HW's, Vittorio Verrengia (12-4-5) vs. Giancarlo Bacchini (12-21-6). See you next time in Aprilia, Italy!