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GREAT! Getting to meet you, Frank, Randy , meeting Lucia Rijker , seeing and meeting all the great California fighters I enjoyed watching and reading about . . . Heck, I probably won't even care so much about getting kissed by Bobby Chacon!

raylawpc wrote:GREAT! Getting to meet you, Frank, Randy , meeting Lucia Rijker , seeing and meeting all the great California fighters I enjoyed watching and reading about . . . Heck, I probably won't even care so much about getting kissed by Bobby Chacon!

Tom . . . Mando Muniz wants me to let you know he will be arriving a little late, but will be there to join you.

Danny Valdez . . .

birth date 1940-02-06
division featherweight
Los Angeles, California, United States
won 31 (KO 14) + lost 12 (KO 2) + drawn 0 = 43
rounds boxed 345 KO% 32.56



1966-12-05 128 Alex Benitez 126 26-5-2
Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California, United States L UD 10 10
~ referee: Bob Mitchell 4-6 | judge: Vern Bybee 3-5 | judge: Jack Silva 3-5 ~

1966-06-28 127½ Richard Sue 128 20-1-1
Portland, Oregon, United States L UD 10 10
~ referee: Bill Thornburg ~

1966-04-12 126 Alex Benitez 125 22-5-2
San Jose, California, United States L UD 12 12
~ referee: Jack Downey 2-8 | judge: Tony Bosnich 2-7 | judge: Johnny Lotsey 4-5 ~
~ USA California State featherweight title ~

1965-11-30 Johnny Lattimore 2-3-0
Sacramento, California, United States W KO 10
1965-11-09 Kid San Nicolaus
Sacramento, California, United States W PTS 10 10
1965-08-12 127 Pete Gonzalez 127½ 9-4-1
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States L MD 10 10
~ referee: Lee Grossman 5-5 | judge: Tommy Hart 3-6 | judge: Dick Young 4-6 ~

1965-07-01 Mercer Smith 19-5-3
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W UD 12 12
~ referee: Lee Grossman 8-4 | judge: Tommy Hart 8-4 | judge: John Thomas 10-3 ~
~ USA California State featherweight title ~

1964-11-25 126 Pete Gonzalez 126½ 3-1-0
Fairgrounds Arena, Boise, Idaho, United States W SD 10 10
1964-08-13 126 Javier Sugar Zatarain 127½ 17-8-1
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W TKO 9 10
~ referee: Tommy Hart ~
Zatarain was knocked down twice.

1964-07-21 125 Daniel Valdez 123 17-10-1
Castaways Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States W PTS 10 10
1963-07-15 127 Ray Valdez 126 1-5-0
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico W KO 4
1963-06-27 127 Paul Alba 126 22-2-0
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W KO 4 10
~ time: 2:15 | referee: Dick Young ~
Alba was knocked down three times in the 4th round.

1963-01-14 125 Danny Kid 126½ 39-27-13
Moulin Rouge, Hollywood, California, United States W UD 10 10
~ referee: Frankie Van 7-4 | judge: George Latka 7-4 | judge: Russ Bradford 8-5 ~
Valdez was knocked down in the 2nd round.

1962-05-11 124¾ Sugar Ramos 126 33-1-3
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States L TKO 7 10
~ time: 1:15 ~
Valdez was knocked down twice in the 7th, his corner entering the ring to stop the bout after the 2nd knockdown.

1962-04-03 125 Luis Chamaco Hernandez 125 12-5-1
Auditorio Municipal, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico W UD 10 10
1962-03-25 127 Beto Apodaca 128
Nogales, Sonora, Mexico W KO 3 10
1962-02-09 129½ Pulga Serrano 129½ 13-7-0
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W PTS 10 10
~ referee: Dick Young 7-3 ~

1961-09-21 128½ Gil Cadilli 128¼ 32-20-7
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W UD 10 10
~ referee: Tommy Hart 10-1 | judge: Charley Randolph 13-1 | judge: John Thomas 10-2 ~

1961-08-17 126 Gil Cadilli 125 31-20-7
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States L SD 12 12
~ referee: Joey Olmos 4-5 | judge: Jimmy Wilson 4-6 | judge: George Latka 7-4 ~
~ USA California State featherweight title ~

1961-06-15 Tony Herrera 18-0-0
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W KO 8 12
~ vacant USA California State featherweight title ~

1961-04-08 124 Davey Moore 125¾ 48-6-1
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States L KO 1 15
~ time: 2:48 | referee: George Latka ~
World Featherweight Title

1961-01-19 125½ Boots Monroe 126 32-5-1
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W KO 1 12
~ time: 2:32 ~
~ vacant USA California State featherweight title ~

1960-10-08 126½ Ricardo Gonzalez 127 94-6-7
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W TKO 5 10
~ time: 1:18 | referee: Jimmy Wilson ~
Gonzalez was stopped due to a cut over his left eye.

1960-09-08 126½ Ricardo Gonzalez 125½ 94-5-7
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W UD 10 10
~ referee: Tommy Hart 999-86 | judge: George Latka 100-89 | judge: John Thomas 99-90 ~
Gonzalez was knocked down in the 2nd round.

1960-07-16 Juan Ramirez 27-5-1
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico L PTS 10 10
1960-05-12 125½ Felix Cervantes 125½ 17-4-1
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States L UD 12 12
~ referee: George Latka 113-115 | judge: Dick Young 112-115 | judge: John Thomas 112-117 ~
~ USA California State featherweight title ~

1960-03-24 125 Juan Ramirez 125½ 24-4-1
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W MD 10 10
~ referee: George Latka 94-93 | judge: Lee Grossman 95-95 | judge: Jack McDonald 94-93 ~

1960-01-07 124 Billy Thomas 126 17-7-0
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States L UD 12 12
~ referee: Tommy Hart 112-116 | judge: Russ Bradford 111-117 | judge: Joey Olmos 116-117 ~
~ USA California State featherweight title ~

1959-12-08 124¾ Tano Serna 126¼ 10-4-0
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W KO 8 10
Serna was also knocked down in the 3rd round.

1959-10-01 125½ Dwight Hawkins 123 19-9-2
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W MD 12 12
~ referee: Jimmy Wilson 113-113 | judge: Russ Bradford 114-113 | judge: John Thomas 115-114 ~
~ vacant USA California State featherweight title ~

1959-07-02 124½ Ramon Bobby Cervantes 127½ 23-1-1
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W UD 10 10
~ referee: Mushy Callahan 98-92 | judge: John Thomas 98-96 | judge: Jimmy Wilson 97-95 ~

1959-05-23 128½ Manny Gallardo 129 8-0-2
Legion Stadium, Hollywood, California, United States W SD 10 10
~ referee: John Thomas 97-93 | judge: Russ Bradford 97-92 | judge: Reggie Gilmore 94-96 ~

1958-09-05 125½ Dwight Hawkins 123 12-8-2
Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, California, United States L SD 8 8
1958-07-17 122½ Luis Sanchez 126 8-4-0
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W UD 8 8
~ referee: Russ Bradford 79-73 | judge: Frankie Van 79-71 | judge: Lee Grossman 78-72 ~

1958-06-26 126 Richie Robinson 126 4-2-0
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W TKO 7 8
1958-05-29 126 Collier Cox 126 16-16-5
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W UD 6 6
1958-04-19 Joaquin Veloz 2-3-0
San Diego, California, United States W KO 6
1958-04-01 125 Paul Shea 125 7-4-2
Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, California, United States W KO 4 4
1958-02-27 124 Dick Page 124½ 2-1-0
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W TKO 2 6
Page was knocked down three times in the 2nd round.

1958-02-13 122 Manny Elias 119½ 8-3-0
Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States W UD 6 6
1958-01-27 125 Manny Elias 124 8-2-0
Sports Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States W PTS 6 6
1957-12-09 Luis Sanchez 3-3-0
Sports Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States L SD 6 6
1957-11-22 Tony Meza 1-11-1
Sports Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States W KO 4 6
~ time: 1:45 ~

raylawpc wrote:The Magician and the Parrot

A magician was working on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The audience would be different each week, so the magician allowed himself to do the same tricks over and over again.

There was only one problem: The captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand how the magician did every trick. Once he understood he started shouting in the middle of the show:

"Look, it's not the same hat"

"Look, he is hiding the flowers under the table"

"Hey, why are all the cards the Ace of Spades ?"

The magician was furious but couldn't do anything; it was, after all, the captain's parrot.

One day the ship had an accident and sank. The magician found himself on a piece of wood in the middle of the ocean with the parrot, of course.

They stared at each other with hate, but did not utter a word. This went on for a day and another and another.

After a week the parrot said: "OK, I give up. Where's the boat?"

Now that was funny

kikibalt wrote:

Randyman wrote:Good News, Bad News, Sad News...

The day after his wife disappeared in a kayaking accident, an Anchorage man answered his door to find two grim-faced Alaska State Troopers.

"We're sorry Mr. Wilkens, but we have some information about your wife," said one trooper.

"Tell me! Did you find her?!" Wilkens shouted.

The troopers looked at each other. One said, "We have some bad news, some good news, and some really great news. Which do you want to hear first?"

Fearing the worst, an ashen Mr. Wilkens said, "Give me the bad news first."

The trooper said, "I'm sorry to tell you, sir, but this morning we found your wife's body in Kachemak Bay ."

"Oh my God!" exclaimed Wilkens. Swallowing hard, he asked, "What's the good news?"

The trooper continued, "When we pulled her up, she had 12 twenty-five pound king crabs and 6 good-size Dungeness crabs clinging to her."

Stunned, Mr. Wilkens demanded, "If that's the good news, what's the great news?"

The trooper said, "We're going to pull her up again tomorrow."

I think most of the fishermen here understand the need not to waste good bait.

In 1963, Joe Louis promoted this card. Johnny Flores was his matchmaker.
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Moulin Rouge, Hollywood, California, United States

Danny Valdez W Danny Kid UD 10 10
Memo Lopez W Garfield Gray PTS 6 6
Ray Lewis W Al Nieto PTS 6 6
Beto Maldonado L Bennie Lira PTS 4 4

Looking for help. If you can, please contact Matt Farrago President of
Ring 8 VBA in New York
at 1-631-948-6028 or email [email protected]
Please identify yourself and that you saw this on Boxrec forum posted by Charlie Norkus Jr Thank You

From Matt to All:
This person sent me this email requesting our help. Let me know if you know of any helpful information regarding these fighters.

Thank you for your help Ring 8

Matt

This is his email to Ring 8


President, Matt Farrago
VBA RING 8 NEW YORK,


For over 10 years, I've been pursuing an intensive and exhaustive research on Yvon Durelle life and boxing career (www.yvondurelle.com 1929-2007). In addition, I've donated a very large amount of Yvon Durelle collectibles and research documents, every bit and pieces, to the archives located at the following university www.umoncton.ca.

This said, I'm trying to contact the following boxer's. They are Yvon Durelle opponents in the ring and sparring partners from the 1950s. Can you help?

ANDREWS Paul | Buffalo, NY USA

BETHEA Wayne | Sparring partner USA
DIXON Nat | Sparring partner USA

FLOYD Clarence | New York, NY USA

HINNANT Clarence | Washington, DC USA (trying to locate since the early years of 2000)
HOUGH Tommy | Sparring partner USA

MCCOY Floyd | New York, NY USA
POOLE Ted | Sparring partner USA
WRIGHT Chubby | Reading, PA USA

I'm very passionate about my endeavour to the valorization of Yvon Durelle life and boxing career.

Another Joe Louis Southern Cal promotion / Johnny Flores matchmaker - 1962
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Moulin Rouge, Hollywood, California, United States

Don Johnson W Gil Cadilli UD 12 12
Jerry Stokes W Beto Maldonado PTS 6 6
Alex Benitez L Larry Flores PTS 5 5
Garfield Gray L Federico Burboa PTS 5 5


(What a great card! In L.A. all these guys were well known.)

CNorkusJr wrote:Looking for help. If you can, please contact Matt Farrago President of
Ring 8 VBA in New York
at 1-631-948-6028 or email [email protected]
Please identify yourself and that you saw this on Boxrec forum posted by Charlie Norkus Jr Thank You

From Matt to All:
This person sent me this email requesting our help. Let me know if you know of any helpful information regarding these fighters.

Thank you for your help Ring 8

Matt

This is his email to Ring 8


President, Matt Farrago
VBA RING 8 NEW YORK,


For over 10 years, I've been pursuing an intensive and exhaustive research on Yvon Durelle life and boxing career (http://www.yvondurelle.com 1929-2007). In addition, I've donated a very large amount of Yvon Durelle collectibles and research documents, every bit and pieces, to the archives located at the following university http://www.umoncton.ca.

This said, I'm trying to contact the following boxer's. They are Yvon Durelle opponents in the ring and sparring partners from the 1950s. Can you help?

ANDREWS Paul | Buffalo, NY USA

BETHEA Wayne | Sparring partner USA
DIXON Nat | Sparring partner USA

FLOYD Clarence | New York, NY USA

HINNANT Clarence | Washington, DC USA (trying to locate since the early years of 2000)
HOUGH Tommy | Sparring partner USA

MCCOY Floyd | New York, NY USA
POOLE Ted | Sparring partner USA
WRIGHT Chubby | Reading, PA USA

I'm very passionate about my endeavour to the valorization of Yvon Durelle life and boxing career.

Paul Andrews . . .

Charlie . . . Paul Andrews was inducted into the California Boxing HOF last year.
I was at the event, and I believe Andrews was also present. Frank Baltzar would know for sure, he's the CBHOF Vice President.
I believe that Andrews, who turns 80 this year, lives in Southern Cal?
Two of his last bouts were held at the Olympic Auditorium. I had a studio friend that knew him, but the man passed away.
Maybe Frank and Don Fraser know how to reach Andrews?

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CALIFORNIA BOXING HALL OF FAME - 2009

Manny Pacquiao
Charlie Powell
Michael Buffer
Sugar Ray Robinson
Davey gallardo
Freddie Roach
Roy Englebrecht
Van Barbieri
Jack O'Halloran
Timothy Ray Bradley Jr.
Gary Shaw
PJ Goosen
Robert Garcia
Eduardo Garcia
Ken Green
Howard Smith
Jackie Richardson
Alex Ramos
Jesse Reid
Paul Andrews
John Bray
John Jackson Sr.
Gary Ballin
Kid Rayo
Tony Cerdo
Ed Holmes
Tony Fuentes
Bob Fuentes
Paul Vaden
Jesus Pimentel
Heavyweight Champion - Jim Jeffries

Randyman wrote:

raylawpc wrote:GREAT! I've wanted to meet Randy for a long time.

Likewise Tom!

Hey Tom, I thought we were meeting up in the cradle of civilisation.

Rick Farris wrote:Paul Andrews . . .

Charlie . . . Paul Andrews was inducted into the California Boxing HOF last year.
I was at the event, and I believe Andrews was also present. Frank Baltzar would know for sure, he's the CBHOF Vice President.
I believe that Andrews, who turns 80 this year, lives in Southern Cal?
Two of his last bouts were held at the Olympic Auditorium. I had a studio friend that knew him, but the man passed away.
Maybe Frank and Don Fraser know how to reach Andrews?

Yes, Paul Andrews lives in the L.A. area, he shows up at the weekly GSBA meetings. Don Fraser would be the one to know how to get in contact with Andrews. Charlie, if you need Don's #, let me know and I'll send to you.

bennie wrote:

Randyman wrote:

raylawpc wrote:GREAT! I've wanted to meet Randy for a long time.

Likewise Tom!

Hey Tom, I thought we were meeting up in the cradle of civilisation.

Hey Bennie, are you saying we're not civilize?....we're not....

kikibalt wrote:

bennie wrote:

Randyman wrote: Likewise Tom!

Hey Tom, I thought we were meeting up in the cradle of civilisation.

Hey Bennie, are you saying we're not civilize?....we're not....

If we lose to Slovenia today, Frankie, you will see how civilised we are. England's footballers will get abuse for the rest of their lives.

We've just scored. England are 1-0. 8)

bennie wrote:

Randyman wrote:

raylawpc wrote:GREAT! I've wanted to meet Randy for a long time.

Likewise Tom!

Hey Tom, I thought we were meeting up in the cradle of civilisation.

I didn't know we were meeting up in Mesopotamia . . .

With a new grandbaby on the way and, more importantly, semi-retirement looming for me on August 30th, I can't get the Boss out to Merry Old England this Summer.

raylawpc wrote:

bennie wrote:

Randyman wrote: Likewise Tom!

Hey Tom, I thought we were meeting up in the cradle of civilisation.

I didn't know we were meeting up in Mesopotamia . . .

With a new grandbaby on the way and, more importantly, semi-retirement looming for me on August 30th, I can't get the Boss out to Merry Old England this Summer.

Tom, is this your first grandchild?

Well done to the USA, who, like England, are into the last 16 of the world cup. The USA might spring a real surprise in the event.

kikibalt wrote:

raylawpc wrote:

bennie wrote: Hey Tom, I thought we were meeting up in the cradle of civilisation.

I didn't know we were meeting up in Mesopotamia . . .

With a new grandbaby on the way and, more importantly, semi-retirement looming for me on August 30th, I can't get the Boss out to Merry Old England this Summer.

Tom, is this your first grandchild?

Yes, and supposedly a granddaughter. (At least, that's what the doctor says.)

raylawpc wrote:

kikibalt wrote:

raylawpc wrote: I didn't know we were meeting up in Mesopotamia . . .

With a new grandbaby on the way and, more importantly, semi-retirement looming for me on August 30th, I can't get the Boss out to Merry Old England this Summer.

Tom, is this your first grandchild?

Yes, and supposedly a granddaughter. (At least, that's what the doctor says.)

Congrats all the way around.....

Thanks!

Congratulations, Tom!

- Chuck Johnston

Thanks Chuck.

Tom . . . Congratulations Grandpa!

Next Tom is going to be like me. "Great-Grandpa"