[Rocco Del Sesto]

01/10/67 Tuesday
Tacoma, WA, USA
Larry Buck – LHW (4-0-1) vs. Edmund Deroches – MW (0-1-0)

Larry Buck - USA Rating 4
Light Heavyweight 1966-72

25 wins / 5 losses / 4 draws / 20 KO

Alias: Lawrence Little
Hometown: Toppenish, WA
Birthplace: Mason City, WA
Trainer: Eddie Cotton & George Chemeres
Manager: George Chemeres

Original Rating by: Todd Colegrove, Rasmuth

I revised his Cb/s from 7/6 to 5/5 and his Chin's from 2/2 to 1/0 it actually made his overall rating calculate at 4 from the 3 of Rasmuth's ratings. Buck was stopped 1 time in his career. I built a schedule with all the fighters in the game plus a lot of the 0/-1 type 1's I got now in the data base and I was pleasantly surprised how Todd's ratings worked. In my replays Buck's overall W's and his KO's and times he was stopped came out a bit high. The changes I made pulled those numbers in closer to his real stats. But overall a great job rating Buck by Rasmuth even if you leave all his original ratings. What you build a test schedule with of course can alter results from one tester's results to another.


Defeated Johnny Featherman, Billy Marsh twice, drew twice with Andy Kendall, lost to Roger Rouse, lost to Kendall and lost to Pierre Fourie in his last career fight to name some guys we've seen in the game.

Edmund Deroches - Canada Rating 1
Middleweight 1965-68

1 win / 2 losses / 0 draw / 1 KO

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Defeated MW - Jim Meilleur(9-17-2) in his first fight in April 1965, loosing a 6 round decision. Did not fight again til January 1967 when he KO'd Larry Buck in the 2nd round. Buck was 4-0-1 at the time. Edmund fought 1 more time in his career, a 2nd round KO loss to MW-Gary Broughton(30-47-6).

The Fight....

The outcome of this fight in 1967 would seem to be very surprising. Buck, a decent LHW of the 60’s to early 70’s was of course very early in his career and thus quite inexperienced. Deroches on the other hand, a Middleweight had only 1 career fight according to BoxRec up to this time, a 6 round decision loss back in April 1965! I would think Buck would handle Deroches, but in reality, Deroches knocked out Buck in the 2nd round of the scheduled 6 rounder!!
In our replay fight, I set Buck to Beginning career stage and left Deroches at prime. It was really no contest. Buck had a knockdown of Deroches in the 2nd round and while Edmund staged a bit of a comeback in the 4th round, it could not do enough to ward off a Unanimous Decision loss to Buck, 59-55, 59-54, and 59-54 on judges cards.