Joe BASKI
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robert.snell1
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which one there are 2
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robert.snell1
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hi
hi that ok i can send you some news items pubished regards his fights if thats what you are looking for
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robert.snell1
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if you email me i will send them as i do not have the time at present to write them up.
..ezzard charles spotted him a bunch of pounds (disregard the boxrec weights for this one) and battered him so badly the tough baksi had to quit....said he couldn't see any more. the radio announcer....probably dunphy....during the fight said "I've never seen baksi this mad before. he simply can't handle the smaller charles" baksi was an odd fellow...big and strong...good puncher...good chin....but he was accident prone... during training for various fights he once cut his foot with an axe and had to cancel out...another time he sliced his thumb while making a sandwich....coo coo stuff.
some fighters "never win the big ones"...baksi never even got to fight them. he was off of a good win against....i think it was bruce woodcock and was in line for a shot at joe louis. so..he takes a match against the virtually unknown swede ollie tanberg..and blows the decision. this made a brief star of tanberg a lumbering no-talent who came to the states and was outpointed.....widely..by the much smaller, light hitting, but clever joey maxim in a real yawner.
that's all i can remember......if some good stories pop up from your research i'll bet they'd be worth sharing here.
some fighters "never win the big ones"...baksi never even got to fight them. he was off of a good win against....i think it was bruce woodcock and was in line for a shot at joe louis. so..he takes a match against the virtually unknown swede ollie tanberg..and blows the decision. this made a brief star of tanberg a lumbering no-talent who came to the states and was outpointed.....widely..by the much smaller, light hitting, but clever joey maxim in a real yawner.
that's all i can remember......if some good stories pop up from your research i'll bet they'd be worth sharing here.
Baksi is best known in England for dealing out savage beatings to Bruce Woodcock and Freddie Mills - most people can't understand why Mills' manager took that fight given the size difference but I guess money may have been a factor!
Also of course in rhyming slang a "taxi" is often referred to as a "Joe Baksi"...
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Also of course in rhyming slang a "taxi" is often referred to as a "Joe Baksi"...
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Here's a little mini-bio that wrote up for Baksi.
Joe Baksi was born on January 14, 1922 in Kulpmont, Pennsylvania. When Baksi was nine his father died and as a result Joe had to quit school to go and work in the mines to help support the family. A few years later Joe joined up with a carnival during which he traveled and got to see the country, but after a while he was back home and working in the mines. In his spare time Joe played football and during a game a scuffle broke out and to settle the fight Baksi boxed a teammate and put a pretty solid beating on his opponent after which he decided to try his hand a boxing. Baksi is said to have participated in several bootleg amateur fights in upstate New York.
On June 18, 1940 Baksi had his first professional boxing match in Albany, New York. In a four round bout against Jimmy Brown, Baksi got a point’s win and he would follow that success through his first twenty fights losing none while drawing in one and winning nineteen with seven knockouts. Baksi was beginning to make some noise in the heavyweight division and was starting to get some choice fights on under cards of some big time bouts. He would suffer his first lost on such a card as one of the early bouts on the Joe Louis-Lou Nova September 29, 1941 Heavyweight Championship Fight Card, losing a six round fight to Teddy Wint, who coming into the fight had a solid 19-1 record.
Sometimes that first loss can ruin a fighter, but it was of little to no consequence to Baksi as he followed the loss with another nice little winning streak of which he managed to score a couple of high profile wins against Bill Poland and Gus Dorazio. Baksi would go on to beat other top heavyweights such as Buddy Walker, Buddy Knox, Lou Savold, Tami Mauriello, Gunnar Barlund, Lou Nova, Freddie Mills, Bruce Woodcock and Bernie Reynolds. He had better success than not against the higher-quality opposition that he faced and although he was never given a title fight Baksi was still regarded as a heavyweight to be reckoned with who was not the heaviest hitter, but a big heavyweight who could take it just as well as he gave. He was only stopped one time in his career and that was against the best heavyweight of his era in Ezzard Charles, and it was due to a cut and not an actual knockout, so that was certainly no disgrace.
Standing six foot, one inch and weighing between one hundred and ninety pounds and two hundred and forty pounds during a career that spanned from 1940 through 1954, Baksi was one of the bigger and tougher heavyweights of the time and for a fighter that had relatively little amateur experience, Baksi turned in a pretty solid career that would make a lot of better known fighters envious as he finished his career with a record of 60-9-3 (29 KO) in seventy-two total bouts.
Joe Baksi was born on January 14, 1922 in Kulpmont, Pennsylvania. When Baksi was nine his father died and as a result Joe had to quit school to go and work in the mines to help support the family. A few years later Joe joined up with a carnival during which he traveled and got to see the country, but after a while he was back home and working in the mines. In his spare time Joe played football and during a game a scuffle broke out and to settle the fight Baksi boxed a teammate and put a pretty solid beating on his opponent after which he decided to try his hand a boxing. Baksi is said to have participated in several bootleg amateur fights in upstate New York.
On June 18, 1940 Baksi had his first professional boxing match in Albany, New York. In a four round bout against Jimmy Brown, Baksi got a point’s win and he would follow that success through his first twenty fights losing none while drawing in one and winning nineteen with seven knockouts. Baksi was beginning to make some noise in the heavyweight division and was starting to get some choice fights on under cards of some big time bouts. He would suffer his first lost on such a card as one of the early bouts on the Joe Louis-Lou Nova September 29, 1941 Heavyweight Championship Fight Card, losing a six round fight to Teddy Wint, who coming into the fight had a solid 19-1 record.
Sometimes that first loss can ruin a fighter, but it was of little to no consequence to Baksi as he followed the loss with another nice little winning streak of which he managed to score a couple of high profile wins against Bill Poland and Gus Dorazio. Baksi would go on to beat other top heavyweights such as Buddy Walker, Buddy Knox, Lou Savold, Tami Mauriello, Gunnar Barlund, Lou Nova, Freddie Mills, Bruce Woodcock and Bernie Reynolds. He had better success than not against the higher-quality opposition that he faced and although he was never given a title fight Baksi was still regarded as a heavyweight to be reckoned with who was not the heaviest hitter, but a big heavyweight who could take it just as well as he gave. He was only stopped one time in his career and that was against the best heavyweight of his era in Ezzard Charles, and it was due to a cut and not an actual knockout, so that was certainly no disgrace.
Standing six foot, one inch and weighing between one hundred and ninety pounds and two hundred and forty pounds during a career that spanned from 1940 through 1954, Baksi was one of the bigger and tougher heavyweights of the time and for a fighter that had relatively little amateur experience, Baksi turned in a pretty solid career that would make a lot of better known fighters envious as he finished his career with a record of 60-9-3 (29 KO) in seventy-two total bouts.