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montrealsuper wrote:Ossie Ocasio

Ossie had fantastic defensive skills.

He kicked the shit out of dokes in their first fight and got robbed at home.

He was also the recipient of grand larceny against Qawi. I scored that 6-3-1 for Dwight.

scorpio83 wrote:

Sanseverino wrote:Well I looked up Koranicki and Randy Stephens. Yeah they both did stuff. Koranicki passed away at 60 in 2012/May. I know some personal history on his opp Jerry Thompkins.
Stephens had quite proud career. L-KO Bernard Mercado L-UD10 Tom Prater W-10 Jose Roman W-tKo Boudreaux W-KO2 Tom Prater Ldec-10 Gerrie Coetzee (19-0-0 then) W-SD 10 Stan Ward L-KO Kallie Knoetze (18-3-0) W TKO Club guy Rodell Dupree. Theunis Kok a good win. L-UD 15 world title v Ocasio & quit the ring after a loss in So. Af. against Piet Crous world title C. (Put Crous down but is stopped himself in same round).
Yeah I can dig all that!

Sanseverino, you forgot about one notable fighter Randy Stephens fought and that was the late great Ken Norton, who knocked Stephens out in the third round.

And what a left hook it was. I read somewhere that Stephens corner thanked Norton for not administering another powershot as Stephens was frozen. If I remember correctly Stephens was also a sparring partner for Coetzee and was best man at his wedding.

Three guys with power and bad chins
Winston Allen
Stan McDermott
Bobby Crabtree

Three durable spoilers
Leroy Caldwell
Jody Ballard
Bob Stallings

Some of these guys are almost impossible to find any meaningful write-ups on and good luck finding footage, but they were fairly notable figures in their hometown areas back in the day.

Guy in Chicago that got a ton of local press and local push was George Mostardini. While he was probably no more than a rock jawed journeyman, he had charisma and an easily sold angle for the papers as he manned a jackhammer for the city as his day job on a construction crew.

We had another character here in Indy named Clyde "Rocky" Mudgett who was always referenced as a Burt Reynolds lookalike and reportedly was involved with the guys who congregated at Italian restaurants and got recorded on wiretaps if you know what I mean. He ended up dying getting stuck in a chimney in a robbery of a meat packing plant or something around Christmas. Not a happy ending.

Saad, Domingo D'Elia was a top ten fighter getting consideration for a title shot and it's just about impossible to find even a picture of him, much less a piece of film. (Great call on him, btw)

Yes sir, I remember in the couple of weeks leading up to the "Quick" Tillis vs D'Elia fight, the network was real