Fighters: Debuting 1960 to 1969

[jofre]

Charley Boston - a clearer version.

[sadorno]

what did you know about this boxer??? that is my cousen bealive it or not... i am from catano puerto rico that were we born...

[sadorno]

Originally Posted by jofre

boxer: Andres Hernandez
Global ID 11134
sex male
division bantamweight
nationality Puerto Rico
alias Puppy
residence
won 30 (KO 11) + lost 13 (KO 4) + drawn 2 = 45
1969-1985

[sepia warrior]

Cornell Nolan - 15777

Name: Cornell Nolan

Sex: male
Weight Class: heavyweight
Country: United States
Residence: Oakland, California, United States
won 4 (KO 3) + lost 2 (KO 2) + drawn 0 = 6

Career: 1966-1968

[Baby Cox]

Yes this is the boxer Des Cox. I think i remember posting here before......... And yes he was playing sax......wow I would love to see more...he has two daughters......I am the youngest one let's call me 'baby cox'. I would love to see this picture or make a large copy for a gift for him........please contact me.

This is so interesting to read this about my father. I would love to find more pictures of him and know more. I lost his only scrap book when I went to art school as I was going to do a project....I managed to do the project but, lost the book. To this day I have always wanted to replace and make anther one for him.......He is still very much alive and doing well......still very much in the land of great stories and a life that has been lived.....

I would appreciate any info or leads to any photographs or press and I am happy to answer any questions if possible..............although I may have to ask him if you all get a little nerdy about the details....

Baby Cox.....

'Sing like a bumble bee, stumble and tumble like a floozy flea"!

[Baby Cox]

Yes this is the boxer Des Cox. I think i remember posting here before......... And yes he was playing sax......wow I would love to see more...he has two daughters......I am the youngest one let's call me 'baby cox'. I would love to see this picture or make a large copy for a gift for him........please contact me.

This is so interesting to read this about my father. I would love to find more pictures of him and know more. I lost his only scrap book when I went to art school as I was going to do a project....I managed to do the project but, lost the book. To this day I have always wanted to replace and make anther one for him.......He is still very much alive and doing well......still very much in the land of great stories and a life that has been lived.....

I would appreciate any info or leads to any photographs or press and I am happy to answer any questions if possible..............although I may have to ask him if you all get a little nerdy about the details....

Baby Cox.....

'Sing like a bumble bee, stumble and tumble like a floozy flea"!

[Baby Cox]

Originally Posted by Rocco Del Sesto

Global ID 42936
sex male
birth date 1937-08-11
division heavyweight
nationality United Kingdom
residence Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom
birth place Shoreditch
stance southpaw
won 9 (KO 4) + lost 1 (KO 0) + drawn 0 = 10
rounds boxed 51 : KO% 40

I found this picture of Des Cos in a group photo with him and some other UK fighters playing in a band in a talent competition in aid of the Boxing New Olympic Training Fund. This was in the August 23rd, 1968 Boxing News. I ran across in looking for information on Cox. Cox was playing a Sax.

By the way there may be a discrepancy in his BoxRec record. In researching through the Boxing New, the fight with Paul Cassidy may not be this Des Cox. The Boxing News accounts for that fight say Cassidy fought a PHil Cox from Exeter? Still looking through that. Anybody know anything about Des Cox I'd love to hear from you. Seems like way back when I did an earlier rating on him someone came forward mentioning they were a son or daughter of Cox?

Rocco

Yes this is the boxer Des Cox. I think i remember posting here before......... And yes he was playing sax......wow I would love to see more...he has two daughters......I am the youngest one let's call me 'baby cox'. I would love to see this picture or make a large copy for a gift for him........please contact me.

This is so interesting to read this about my father. I would love to find more pictures of him and know more. I lost his only scrap book when I went to art school as I was going to do a project....I managed to do the project but, lost the book. To this day I have always wanted to replace and make anther one for him.......He is still very much alive and doing well......still very much in the land of great stories and a life that has been lived.....

I would appreciate any info or leads to any photographs or press and I am happy to answer any questions if possible..............although I may have to ask him if you all get a little nerdy about the details....

Baby Cox.....

'Sing like a bumble bee, stumble and tumble like a floozy flea"!

[Baby Cox]

Originally Posted by Rocco Del Sesto

Global ID 42936
sex male
birth date 1937-08-11
division heavyweight
nationality United Kingdom
residence Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom
birth place Shoreditch
stance southpaw
won 9 (KO 4) + lost 1 (KO 0) + drawn 0 = 10
rounds boxed 51 : KO% 40

I found this picture of Des Cos in a group photo with him and some other UK fighters playing in a band in a talent competition in aid of the Boxing New Olympic Training Fund. This was in the August 23rd, 1968 Boxing News. I ran across in looking for information on Cox. Cox was playing a Sax.

By the way there may be a discrepancy in his BoxRec record. In researching through the Boxing New, the fight with Paul Cassidy may not be this Des Cox. The Boxing News accounts for that fight say Cassidy fought a PHil Cox from Exeter? Still looking through that. Anybody know anything about Des Cox I'd love to hear from you. Seems like way back when I did an earlier rating on him someone came forward mentioning they were a son or daughter of Cox?

Rocco

Wow this is just great..........I remember seeing a picture like this in his scrap book.......please tell me more......

Baby Cox.....

'Sing like a bumble bee, stumble and tumble like a floozy flea"!

[Baby Cox]

Originally Posted by Rocco Del Sesto

Global ID 42936
sex male
birth date 1937-08-11
division heavyweight
nationality United Kingdom
residence Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom
birth place Shoreditch
stance southpaw
won 9 (KO 4) + lost 1 (KO 0) + drawn 0 = 10
rounds boxed 51 : KO% 40

I found this picture of Des Cos in a group photo with him and some other UK fighters playing in a band in a talent competition in aid of the Boxing New Olympic Training Fund. This was in the August 23rd, 1968 Boxing News. I ran across in looking for information on Cox. Cox was playing a Sax.

By the way there may be a discrepancy in his BoxRec record. In researching through the Boxing New, the fight with Paul Cassidy may not be this Des Cox. The Boxing News accounts for that fight say Cassidy fought a PHil Cox from Exeter? Still looking through that. Anybody know anything about Des Cox I'd love to hear from you. Seems like way back when I did an earlier rating on him someone came forward mentioning they were a son or daughter of Cox?

Rocco

First off I know nothing about boxing apart from I like it. So forgive the lack of knowlnledge and lanaguge I have no business being here on this detailed orientated fact site. All I know about this shot for now according to Daddy Cox who I just spoke with on the phone you are right about the event Rocco and it was held in some pub in Hackney opposite the old Hackey hospital..........He said he did not think the pub was still there. From what he can place of the shot from memory he said one of the boxers is John strati (not sure of spelling)...he thinks most of them were welter weights? Also in the original picture is my father's old trainer Harry Griver who is sitting on a stool on the stage. He said that he has not seen this picture for a long time and I would very much like to show the full image to him. For a man who spent his life with fists being thumped into his head (which from what I can tell he did most of the thumping to be honest) His memory on some of the details on his career is fascinating. I mean this is an old photo that he is trying to place. He also said that there were some real world champs up there on stage with him.......which he can't be clear on right now. He claims he never fought Paul Cassidy but, he has heard of Phil Cox. My father has a great vivid memory of some of his fights and small details.
More please.


Baby Cox.....

'Sing like a bumble bee, stumble and tumble like a floozy flea"!

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Originally Posted by Baby Cox

First off I know nothing about boxing apart from I like it. So forgive the lack of knowlnledge and lanaguge I have no business being here on this detailed orientated fact site. All I know about this shot for now according to Daddy Cox who I just spoke with on the phone you are right about the event Rocco and it was held in some pub in Hackney opposite the old Hackey hospital..........He said he did not think the pub was still there. From what he can place of the shot from memory he said one of the boxers is John strati (not sure of spelling)...he thinks most of them were welter weights? Also in the original picture is my father's old trainer Harry Griver who is sitting on a stool on the stage. He said that he has not seen this picture for a long time and I would very much like to show the full image to him. For a man who spent his life with fists being thumped into his head (which from what I can tell he did most of the thumping to be honest) His memory on some of the details on his career is fascinating. I mean this is an old photo that he is trying to place. He also said that there were some real world champs up there on stage with him.......which he can't be clear on right now. He claims he never fought Paul Cassidy but, he has heard of Phil Cox. My father has a great vivid memory of some of his fights and small details.
More please.


Baby Cox.....

'Sing like a bumble bee, stumble and tumble like a floozy flea"!

Hello,

Great to see your posts and getting to know you! I got information about Des from some old Boxing News magazines that I'd collected. That photo of Des playing the sax came from one of those magazines. I could make a scan of the whole photo and send it to you. I'm thinking I ran across at least one other photo of him. I'll go back through them and see what I find. I could if you like even scan what articles there were of his fights in the magazines. Would you like that? I always wondered why his career just all of a sudden seemed to end? Did he just decide boxing was not his life?

Did he have an amatuer career before turning pro? Most boxers of course would. These Boxing News magazines also covered amatuer boxing and have run across photos and articles about some fighters as amatuers before they turned pro. Since I'd posted this photo I've since collected some earlier magazines that would probably cover when/if he fought as an amatuer and so I might look through them just for the wild chance there might be something there?

I got interested in British boxing awhile back and the past 3 years have been collecting copies of the Boxing New from the 1960's to find out about more fighters from the UK for Title Bout.

Great to hear from you. I'll look start looking back through the magazines to find the photos/articles and get back to you.

Rocco Del Sesto

[Rocco Del Sesto]

Here's the full Photo of Des Cox playing in that band with the Sax. I found out something interesting. He apparently was a sparring partner with Henry Cooper for at least some period of time in 1968.

I found a couple other photos he was in. Nothing unfortunately boxing.

Rocco

[jofre]

Dwight Hawkins
Global ID 11514
sex male
birth date 1938-08-04
division featherweight
country United States
residence East Los Angeles, California, United States
birth place Alabama, United States
won 51 (KO 35) + lost 20 (KO 9) + drawn 6 = 77


1956-1969

[Romultiltus]

Karl-Heinz Klein - 026410

Global ID 26410
sex male
birth date 1947-12-01
division light heavyweight
country Germany
residence Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
birth place Wittmund, Niedersachsen, Germany
won 33 (KO 15) + lost 11 (KO 4) + drawn 3 = 47

Career: 1966-1978

[jofre]

Walter Daniels
Global ID 25089
sex male
division welterweight - middleweight
alias McDaniels
country United States
residence New York, New York, United States
won 11 (KO 2) + lost 7 (KO 2) + drawn 1 = 19

1960-1964

[Pedranza]

Originally Posted by Tosti

Fel Pedranza
Global ID 31656
sex male
birth date 1939-01-15
division welterweight
nationality Philippines
residence
birth place Capaz, Tarlac
won 24 (KO 7) + lost 14 (KO 10) + drawn 4 = 42
1961-1975

He's my grandfather! Thank you for posting this!

[Romultiltus]

Ron Asher - 035830

Global ID 35830
sex male
division heavyweight
country United States
residence Wheeling, West Virginia, United States
won 1 (KO 0) + lost 11 (KO 9) + drawn 0 = 12

Career: 1963-1970

[Romultiltus]

Pedro Carrasco - 016028

Global ID 16028
sex male
birth date 1943-07-11
death date 2001-01-27
division lightweight
country Spain
residence Huelva, Andalucía, Spain
birth place Huelva
birth name Pedro Eduardo Carrasco
won 106 (KO 66) + lost 3 (KO 0) + drawn 2 = 111

Career: 1962-1972

[Romultiltus]

Nate Collins - 011403

Global ID 11403
sex male
birth date 1944-05-02
division middleweight
stance orthodox
height 6′ 0″ / 183cm
alias Nat
country United States
residence San Francisco, California, United States
birth place Morehead City, North Carolina, United States
won 24 (KO 17) + lost 18 (KO 5) + drawn 0 = 42

Career: 1964-1982

[Romultiltus]

Billy Backus - 012558

Global ID 12558
sex male
birth date 1943-03-05
division welterweight
stance southpaw
country United States
residence Canastota, New York, United States
birth place Canastota, NY
birth name Howard William Backus
won 49 (KO 23) + lost 21 (KO 6) + drawn 5 = 75

Career: 1961-1979

[Romultiltus]

Juarez De Lima - 016260

Global ID 16260
sex male
birth date 1942-06-03
division welterweight
stance orthodox
country Brazil
residence Río de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
birth place Frei Paulo, Sergipe, Brazil
won 47 (KO 4) + lost 25 (KO 7) + drawn 5 = 77

Career: 1963-1979