Rocky Casola Missing Fight?

[DavidEpstein]

I came across this link: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6D ... sola&hl=en

It lists a 45 second knockout win for Rocky Casola over James Johnson on April 12, 1977. The link is incomplete, but it was a fightcard promoted by Chris Dundee (That's what the article states). This might have been at the Miami Beach Auditorium where Dundee promoted boxing? Not sure.

[Matt]

It's already in there, but with a bad date (April 15, instead of April 12).

[Emaster]

The article says "James Johnson." But Dice Johnson has been entered as Rocky Casola's opponent. Couldn't it have been James J Johnson instead? Are they even the same?

[DavidEpstein]

Rocky Casola is listed as having KO'd Dice Johnson on his boxrec record. However, the newspaper reported that Casola KO'd James J. Johnson. James J. Johnson of New York is the opponent, not Dice Johnson.

Newspaper report:


http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6D ... sola&hl=en

[DavidEpstein]

Casola's record was never corrected to show James Johnson not Dice Johnson. Here's the newspaper link to the fight result:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6D ... sola&hl=en