[Rocco Del Sesto]

01/16/67 Monday
Manchester, England
Roger Woodworth – MW (3-7-0) vs. Sean Dolan – LHW (4-0-0)

Roger Woodworth - UK Rating 1
Middleweight 1964-67

3 wins / 9 losses / 0 draw / 2 KO

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Not much to talk about here with Woodworth. Fought pretty much MW competition with a couple heavyweights thrown in. Not sure why BoxRec lists him as a light middleweight though. Only his last opponent Dick Griffiths whom he also fought in his next to last fight is listed in BoxRec as a light MW also. Sean Dolan whom Woodworth lost to in his next to last fight, is rated a light heavy. After starting out a modest 3-3-0 Roger lost his last 6 fights and quickly dissappeared from the boxing scene.

Sean Dolan - Was posted in an earlier fight in this replay.

The Fight....
Not much to talk about these two guys. Sean Dolan we saw a week ago here in Manchester when he won a UD against Zeke Ukario to up his record to 4-0-0. Woodworth, he’s nearing the end of his career. He’s not fought since June of last year loosing by TKO in the 6th round to a Dick Griffiths. Roger’s is riding a 4 fight loosing streak coming into this one here against Dolan.
In 1967, these two battle through 6 rounds with Dolan winning by split decision. Here’s another replay that ends dead on like the real thing! I’m not going to go into much detail with this one other then to say it was a close fight, back and forth action with the point margins in most of the rounds pretty close within 2-4 of each other. It ended up another split decision win for Dolan with judge 1 scoring it 58-56 Dolan, judge 2 went 57-58 Woodworth, while judge 3 scored it 59-55 Dolan, giving only the 3rd round to Woodworth.