New HW Boxers Rated

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Roy Campbell Rating 1 USA
Heavyweight 1979
0 wins / 1 loss / 0 draw / 0 KO

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Lost 4th round KO in Miami, Florida in March 1979 to Alain (Dino) Belanger.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Terry French Rating 1 England
Light Heavyweight 1988-1994
16 wins / 12 losses / 1 draw / 3 KO

Hometown/Birthplace: Newcastle, England

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

The only opponent found rated into TBCB was Sean O'Phoenix whom French fought an 8 round draw with in April 1990. In December 1990 French won a 10 round decision over a Stevie Davies to win the British (Northern Area) Light Heavyweight Title. In April 1994 he won another 10 round decision, this time over Ian Henry to win that title again. This turned out to be French's last fight.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Marc Fichtner Rating 2 USA
Cruiserweight 1981-85
10 wins / 3 losses / 1 draw / 7 KO

Hometown: Boonton, NJ

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

First big fight came in June 1985 when with a 9-2-0 record, Fichtner squared off against Boone Pultz who was sporting an 11-0-0 record. Pultz took the fight with a UD in 8 rounds. After stopping a Guy Ramey in 4 rounds in September, Fichtner then fought Carlos Hernandez in October 1985 for the New Jersey State Cruiserweight title. The fight was stopped in the 2nd round and declared a technical draw. No explanation given in BoxRec as to why the fight was stopped. That's Fichtner's last recorded fight.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Brad Fleener Rating 1 USA
Heavyweight 1984-87
0 wins / 3 losses / 0 draws / 0 KO

Hometown: Honolulu, HI

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Lost 2 fights to a Sagele Fogota in 1984 both by 2nd round KO then came back in Feb 1987 to get decked in the 1st round by John Elacqua. Eleacqua hit Fleener with a left jab on the first punch of the fight, 15 seconds into the fight!

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Olympia Jack Johnson Rating 1 usA
Cruiserweight 1983-92
14 wins / 18 losses / 1 draw / 4 KO

Hometown: Washington DC
Birthplace: Olympia, WA

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Johnson fought the first 3 years of his career around New Jersey and Maryland area during this stage fighting in the Light Heavy division loosing fights to Robert Folley, Vaughn Hooks, Jeff Lapkin, David Sears, Eddie Davis and Dave Russell. The only wins against anyone with any kind of record were against a Reggie Gross(18-8-0,14KO) and Bobby Thomas(15-20-0,9KO). After defeating Thomas in October 1986, Johnson disappeared from the ring until he showed up in Melbourne, Australia in November 1988.

There in Melbourne, Johnson came back to the ring moving up into the CW/HW division fighters. His first fight, he was TKO'd by Dave Russell in 6 rounds. His next fight in March 1989 he travelled to the Fiji Islands where he lost a 10 round decision to a Mosese Vilia. After that Johnson went back to Australia and fought the remainder of his career there. In April 1989 he lost a 10 round UD to Craig Peterson. In August and October 1989 he wond 10 round decision over Mark Saris and Dave Russell. Then in February 1990 he won a 10 round UD over Steve Unterholzer to win the vacant New South Wales Heavyweight Title. Two months later he successfully defended that title by 10 round UD against Dean Waters even though Johnson went down in the last round.

After loosing a 12 round decision to Apollo Sweet in July 1990, Johnson then lost the New South Wales State HW title to Justin Fortune in May 1991. That and the Apollo loss marked a streak of 7 losses in his last 8 career bouts. In July 1991 he lost to Gary Hubble. Five months later he managed to win the vacant New South Wales Cruiserweight title defeating Bekir Kantarci. In Feb 1992 though Kantarci took that title from Johnson by 10 round decision. Two decision losses to Gary Wills and DAve Russell and finally a 6th round TKO loss to Ted Cofie finished Johnson's career.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Pete Holm Rating 1 USA
Heavyweight 12977-80
7 wins / 3 losses / 0 draws / 2 KO

Hometown: St. Paul, MN
Birthplace: Denmark

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

His three losses were to fighters we've seen in the game, Lupe Guerra, Percell Davis and Winston Allen, stoppages by Davis and Allen.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Andy Russell Rating 1 Bermuda
Heavyweight 1980-84
0 wins / 12 losses / 0 draws / 0 KO

Hometown: Miami, FL
Birthplace: Bahamas

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Nine of his 12 losses were TKO or KO. In March 1983 fought Jesse Crown for the Miane State Heavyweight title. Crown won the 12 round decision. previous to that fight, after suffering his first 2 losses in Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Russell had ventured up north to Maine and Conneticut to fight?

In October 1983 Russell ended up in Houston, Texas getting KO'd in 4 by Charles Hostetter. In 1984 he was stopped in 4 rounds by Carlos Hernandez and knocked out in the 1st round and into retirement by Eddie Mustafa Muhammad.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Frank Williams Rating 1 USA
Heavyweight 1977-79
8 wins / 3 losses / 1 draw / 4 KO

Hometown: Cincinnati, OH

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Williams main opponents faced were a 6 round decision victory over Harry Terrell in May 1977, a 1st round KO loss to Broderick Mason in May 1978 and in his last fight he won a 10 round UD over Bill Sharkey in August 1979. Williams on his last 4 fights in fact and then was gone from the ring.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

This is the last guy from those posted photo threads from different era's.
On to something else......

Vivian Schwalger Rating 1 Australia
Cruiserweight 1983-2001
8 wins / 8 losses / 1 draw / 5 KO

Trainer: Jeff Malcolm

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Schwalger won an 8 round decision over a Sammy Samuela in Feb 1983 and then boxrec shows no fights for him again until June 1987. In Oct 1987 he fought a 4 round draw with Craig Peterson. After one other fight, a win in 1987, Schwalger is absent again until Feb 1989 when he looses an 8 round decision to Peterson. That's again for another whole year until March 1990 when Shwalger fights Apollo Sweet for the OPBF and Australian Cruiserweight Titles. Sweet stops Vivian in the 8th round. BoxRec has a note that Schwalger, the promotors and two busloads of fans are all convicts who are temporarily released from Jail. Reason why apparently for Schwalger's infrequent record.

After the fight with Sweet, it must have been back off to jail for Schwalger until 1992 when he fights again in June and fights a half dozen times between then and mid 1993. He looses 6th round TKO to Dave Russell in July 1992 for the vacant Australian CW title and then in May 1993 he's knocked out in the 4th round by Ted Cofie in another bout for the Australian CW title.

After another 2 year layoff he fights a couple times in 1995 and then out of the ring again until Jan 1998 when he fights for and wins the vacant Queensland Heavyweight Title. Schwalger then a couple months later is stopped in the 1st round by Danny Buzza. Schwalger then shows up one more time in the ring in March 2001 when he's stopped by Phil Gregory in the 5th round in a bout for the Queensland State HW Title.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Otha Brown Rating 4 USA
Light Heavyweight 1959-66
24 wins / 4 losses / 3 draws / 4 KO

Hometown Miami, FL

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

BoxRec lists Brown as a heavyweight being of course the tail end of his career he fought into that division but the bulk of his career appeared to be at the lightheavy ranking. Brown compiled a 20-0-2,4KO record thru May 1963 fighting a mix of middle, light and heavyweight opponents. At the tale end of that run he knocked out Battling Siki (a MW of the same name as the LHW) in the 9th round, KO'd Freddy Blades in 7, won a 10 round decision over Sammy Stone ant then at Madison Square Garden in May 1963 he knocked out Paul Johnson in the 3rd round. Brown seemed poised making a climb up the middle ranks of the light heavyweight ranks.

After fighting an 8 round draw with Simon Ramos(9-6-1) in Puerto Rico, Brown came back MSG in New York to take on Floyd McCoy(16-18-2) and lost for the first time in surprising fashion, dropping a short 4 round decision to McCoy in November 1964. Brown got back on track in seemed with successive wins over Jesse Bowdry, McCoy and Levi Forte in early/mid 1964. He then decided to go international with his show and traveled to London England in January 1965 where he fought Chic Calderwood in Kensington. Calderwood dropped Brown in the 8th round. The first time Brown was stopped in a fight.

After that brief, unsuccessful foray into international boxing, Brown went back home to Miami where in April 1965 he dropped a 10 round UD to Rodolfo Luciano Diaz. Brown then "retired" from the ring except for a brief two fight comeback in November/December 1966 when he first won a 10 round decision over Willie Johnson(20-35-2,9KO), but then quit for good after getting KO'd in the 7th round by George Johnson.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

This guy's record doesn't look like much, but he had an impressive list of opponents who we've seen rated into the game. There's also some other guys he fought that looking at might be of interest to add in, so I'm going to start a little mini project of looking at rating some of Mr. Johnson's other opponents. It's interesting to look at guys like this and follow thier careers through BoxRec and see how thier "fight tree" branches out.

Willie Johnson Rating 1 USA
Heavyweight 1961-78
20 wins / 35 losses / 2 draws / 9 KO

Hometown: Deerfield Park, FL
birthplace: Dothan, AL?

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Johnson started out 3-11-0 that included two losses to Prentice Snipes in back to back fights in August 1961 and in April 1964 he was stopped in the 4th round by Ollie Wilson in a bout for the Florida State HW Title. Losses to Al Jones(the first of 28 straight following a loss to start his career) and Levi Forte followed. Johnson then won 5 straight in early/mid 1965 including a 6 round decision over Tommy Fields.

Over the next three years he defeated Willie Tiger twice and Tony Ventura while loosing quite a few fights against rated boxers. Those defeats were against Prentice Snipes, Chip Johnson, Willie Tiger, Dante Cane, Al Jones, Willi Besmanoff, Otha Brown, Floyd Patterson, Jefferson DAvis, Tony Ventura, Frank DePaula, Dave Zyglewicz and Raimo Nisula. After loosing the 6 round decision to Nisula in September 1968, Johnson was out of the ring until March 1970 when in March, May and June he defeated George Holden(9-27-1,1) twice and John Hudgins(15-20-5,12). But then he lost five straight fights, all but one by knockout loosing to Vicente Rondon, Earnie Shavers, Eddie Peoples(8-0-0), Baby Boy Rolle and Gregorio Peralta. After the loss to Peralta in March 1972 he beat a Brian O'Melia(16-32-2,6) in April, then did not fight again for almost two years.

In Feb 1974 Johnson was KO'd by James Scott in the 4th round. Another 2-1/2 year layoff was stopped with a 4 round decision loss to a Keith Kelly(8-2-0,3) in October 1976. Two years later in October 1978 Johnson and Kelly put the gloves on again against each other with Kelly winning again, a 6 round decision this time. That was finally it for Johnson's career.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Joe Lindsay Rating 5 USA
Heavyweight 1848-55
28 wins / 7 losses / 2 draws / 11 KO

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Birthplace: West Virginia

Rating by; Rocco Del Sesto

Including a 6 round draw with Jim Holden in his 2nd fight, Lindsay won his first 8 other fights including Over Carmine Vingo, Bob Isler twice, Earl Walls and Gene Felton. In November 1948 he lost for the first time, a 6 round decision to Elkins Brothers.

Lindsay was stopped only once in his career, a 2nd round KO to Omelio Agramonte in August 1950. He fought Agramonte twice earlier in his career, winning the first fight, then loosing the 2nd by 8 round decision. Other wins in Lindsay career were over Art Henri twice, Dusty Wilkerson(19-12-0,10KO) twice, Joe Chesui(21-5-0,9KO), Maynard Jones(14-10-2), Jack Hannan Porter(14-13-3,10KO), Jimmy Slade twice, Billy Gilliam, Young Harry Wills, Bob Isler again, and then Chubby Wright(26-39-3,7KO), Bo Willis, Bob Satterfield and Bert Whitehurst in his last four fights.

He lost fights to Charley (Doc) Williams, Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson twice and Harold Carter. He drew a 2nd fight with Jim Holden in January 1949.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Maynard Jones Rating 1 USA
Heavyweight 1944-52
14 wins / 10 losses / 2 draws / 5 KO

Alias: Delaware Dynamiter
Hometown: Wilmington, DE

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Lost a 4 round decision to Earl Walls in August 1948 when Wells was struggling early in his career with a 2-3-0 record at the time. In January 1949 Jones defeated Billy Gilliam in an 8 round decision, then two months later was stopped in the 9th round by Joe Baksi.Later in August of 1949, Jones got into the ring with Arturo Godoy who's career was winding down through its later stages. The fight ended in a 10 round draw. After winning a 10 round decision over Johnny Kapovich(23-22-8,14KO), Jones finished 1949 getting KO'd in the 2nd round by Abel Cestac.

It was 8 months before Jones fought again, winning a 10 round decision over Ted Lowry, then a month later was stopped in the 5th round by Joe Lindsay. Fighting sparingly thru the 1951 and 52, Jones lost fights to Coley Wallace, Harry "Kid" Matthews and finally to finish his career, a 4th round KO by Clarence Henry.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Joe Chesul Rating 3 USA
Heavyweight 1946-50
21 wins / 5 losses / 0 draws / 9 KO

Hometown: Bayonne, NJ

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Chesul started out winning with 6 straight knockouts in 1946 against guys who had a combined 3-38-0 record. Then in early 1947 he won a 6 round decision over Al Spaulding and a 6 round decision over Steve King(21-11-3,6KO). Then in April 1947 he lost for the first time, a 10 round decision to a Kid Roscoe(7-5-0,4KO).

Chesul won 8 of his next 9 bouts including decisions over Jim Holden, Art Henri and Renato Tontini and Art Swiden. In october 1948, Pat Comiskey defeated Chesul and in February 1949 Chesul lost to Vern Mitchell. Over the last year then of his career, Chesul won his next 4 fights including a decision over Vern Mitchell, but then finished his career in March 1950 with a 4th round KO loss to Joe Lindsay.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Jim Tillman Rating 1 USA
Heavyweight 1957-63
5 wins / 36 losses / 1 draw / 1 KO

Hometown: Macon, GA

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Tillman started out 0-10-1 getting knocked out in 7 of those losses. He managed a 4 round draw with Johnny Pew. Tony Alongi had 2 of those 7 KO's. In June 1961 he defeated Willie Johnson in a 4 round decision for his first win. Johnson later beat Tillman a couple months later and then a year later in September 1962 Tillman managed a 2nd win over Johnson, a 6 round decision. Tillman's only knockout recorded was over Junior Grant(4-11-2,2) in December 1962.

Prentice Snipes beat Tillman four times including three straight fights in October and November 1961. Ollie Wilson KO'd him in the 4th round of a fight billed for the Florida State HW title in September 1962. Levei Forte and Chip Johnson beat Tillman and Johnny Pew beat him twice more late in Tillman's career as far as Tillman's more noteable opponents go.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Bo Willis Rating 1 USA
Heavyweight 1948-58
12 wins / 15 losses / 0 draws / 5 KO

Alias: Lloyd Willis
Hometown: Miami, FL

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Willis fought and lost his first 3 fights to a pretty decent, record wise, LHW Wiley Ferguson(38-9-6,13KO) in 1948. Willis then did not fight again from June 1948 until April 1950 when he scored a knockout for his first win. It was then absence from the ring about for 3-1/2 years until October 1953 when he climbed into the ring against Cleveland Williams. Cleveland promptly knocked Willis out in the 2nd round.

Willis then fought fairly regular after that though 1958. He won fights over Julio Mederos, Sid Peaks, Jim Tillman twice, and Johnny Pew. He lost bouts against Mederos three times, Charley (Doc) Williams, Paul Andrews, John Holman, Joe Lindsay, Jans Friedrich, Jim Persey, and Sylvester Garrison twice.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Jim Persey Rating 2 USA
Heavyweight 1955-57
11 wins / 2 losses / 1 draw / 7 Ko

Hometown: Miami, FL

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Won his first 8 bouts through early 1956 including a 2nd round KO of Bo Willis and an 8th round TKO over Warnell Lester. In March 1956 he won a 10 round decision over LHW Joe Dorsey(27-8-1,20KO). In April 1956 Persey then took on Bob Satterfield. Satterfield dropped Persey in the first round with a left hook, but Persey managed to hang on for the full 10 rounds but finished with his first loss. After a couple wins in July 1956, the second over Johnny Gray, Persey lost his secon 10 round decision, this one to Warnell Lester in August of 56.

In January 1957 Persey won a 5th round KO over Cuban LHW champion Julio Carreras(20-11-2,9KO). Persey last fought then in April 1957 going 10 rounds to a draw against Sipio Lofton.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Dusty Wilkerson Rating 1 USA
Heavyweight 1943-51
19 wins / 12 losses / 0 draws / 10 KO

Birthname: Solomon Wilkerson
Hometown/Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Wilkerson started his career with wins over LHW Howard Bennett(27-21-6,8KO), HW Johnny Kapovich(23-22-8,14KO) and HW Ray Scully(8-10-1,5KO). Then in his fourth career fight in april 1943 he lost a 6 round decision to Lee Oma. Through the rest of 1943 and early 1944 he won fights over Gunnar Barlund and Billy Grant while loosing to Grant, Lee Oma and Bobby Jacobs. In February 1944, Wilkerson lost a 10 round decision to Gus Dorazio for the Philadelphia City HW title. After a win over Odell Polee(13-5-0,4KO) in May 1944, Wilkerson then was absent from the ring until July 1946 (in the military service?). He fought three times in 1946 winning all three fights against welterweight Caesar Ferro(27-26-8,3KO) and a couple middleweights.

From 1947 on through the remainder of his career Wilkerson fought a string of fair to good competition. He won fights over Gene(Tiger) Jones, Hubert Hood, Buddy Walker, Jones again, Vernon Williams(12-6-3,3), and finally Tiger Jones a 3rd time in Feb 1949. He lost fights to Bob Amos, Al Hoosman, Archie Moore twice, Joe Lindsay twice and finally to Harold Johnson in January 1951 after a year layoff after his second loss to Lindsay in November 1949.

[Rocco Del Sesto]

This guy I was pleased to find I had his picture

Johnny Kapovich Rating 1 USA
Heavyweight 1939-49
23 wins / 22 losses / 8 draws / 14 KO

Hometown/Birthplace: Baltimore, MD

Rating by: Rocco Del Sesto

Kapovich fought the first year of his career mainly as a Light Heavy fighting MW's/LHW's predominently scoring a 9-8-4,6KO record. Biggest fights that first year were an 8 round split decision loss to Jimmy Webb in Feb 1940, a 10 round decision loss to Webb again in May that year and then in late July 1940 was KO'd in the 4th round by Johnny Shkor. His very first career fight was a 6 round decision loss to Young Jack Dempsey(21-21-0,20KO).

Kapovich put together a string of 11 wins in a row during which time he began fight more in the heavyweight bracket. In Feb 1941 he won an 8 round decision over Bob Godwin and a 10 round decision over Henry Cooper in March. Then in June 1941 he lost a 10 round UD to Gus Dorazio to start a span where he lost 8 of 9 bouts. Losses were against Buddy (Jack) Walker, Altus Allen, Lou Brooks three times in consecutive fights, Lee Savold and Dusty Wilkerson. A lone 8 round decision win over Al Blake in September 1942 was the only win.

After a win over LHW Herbert Marshall(28-17-5,10KO) and 2 other wins and a draw against no one of note, he was KO'd in the 5th round in June 1946 by Omelio Agramonte. A 10 round decision loss to a Cleo Everett(13-22-3,5) and knockout losses to Jimmy Bell and Tommy Gomez followed. After the Gomez fight, Kapovich stayed out of the ring for over 2 years until he came back in June 1949 and fought draws against a Johnny Dupree(35-8-3,13KO) and Bill Wilson(52-26-3,42) a couple busy journeymen HW's of the time and KO'd a George Henley(2-5-1,1). But then in September and November 1949 he lost decisions to Maynard Jones and Duilio Spagnolo and Kapovich then quit the ring for good.

A side note that Kapovich also was absent from the ring for almost 3 years from April 1943 to March 1946. Another fighter gone to war?

[CONN CHRIS]

Originally Posted by Rocco Del Sesto

This guy I was pleased to find I had his picture

Johnny Kapovich Rating 1 USA

That's great Rocco - thanks!

If you could just knock out the other 2,632 names currently on the list that would be swell.