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1967 Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight Replay
01/16/67
Worcester, MA, USA
Jose (King) Roman – HW (9-0-0) vs. Tony Burwell – HW (0-3-0)
Tony Burwell - USA Rating 1
Heavyweight 1963-75
3 wins / 22 losses / 1 draw / 1 KO
Hometown: PHiladelphia, PA
Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto
Little defense with a glass like jaw appeared to maybe being Burwell's big problems. He was stopped in 14 of his 22 losses. His only 3 wins were against HW-Kevin Doug Hogan(15-4-0,11), HW-Jesse Crown(30-20-1,19) and LHW-Pete Riccitelli(52-30-1,21).
His defeats included a fairly respectable list of opponents. They included 2 losses to Willie Ray Richardson, Bob Drover and Bob Cleroux, along with single defeats to Jose (King) Roman, Jimmy McDermott, Joe Alexander, Obie English, John Conteh, Doug Kirk, Cliff McDonals and after having been out of the ring for almost 3 years, in March 1975 he lost his last time to John (Dino) Dennis.
The fight....
Roman was in the early stages to building his career into a top contender in the early 1970’s. Roman had fought and won 8 fights starting his career in June 1966 and then won his 9th fight a week earlier in this same town of Worcester watching him defeat Joe Webb by TKO earlier in our replay. Burwell, after loosing by KO in the 1st round in his first professional fight in September 1963 then did not fight again until climbing back in the ring in December 1966 getting KO’d in the 3rd by Jimmy Payne and the loosing a 6 round decision to Willie Ray Richardson. So, we see Burwell here still trying to re jump start his career.
In 1967, these two tangled in a scheduled 8 round fight going the distance with Roman coming out with a decision. In our replay, things came out pretty much the same, with Roman again winning by 8 round decision, though this time it was a Unanimous Decision. It was really a closer fight then the final outcome through 6 rounds with a lot of maneuvering and really not a lot of action. The last 2 rounds though, Roman started taking the fight inside and quickly wore Burwell down outscoring him at will. There were no knockdowns in the fight. Final linescore was 79-73, 78-74, 77-75, Roman.
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