Nate Smith/ring record/125 professional fights(?)

[Brutu]

No doubt this is the same individual whom Ben Skelton knocked out in round one in 1953.
This article from JET Sept.24.1970 ,claims Nate Smith had 125 fights.

http://books.google.com/books?id=LDgDAA ... pg=PA48&dq

[Matt]

Pittsburgh is very well researched in BoxRec, and is virtually complete from 1920 to 1960. So to get that number he would have had to have been plying his trade in West Virginia and small Pennsylvania and Ohio towns. So you are saying he is Ed Cross? Based on?

[Brutu]

Nate Smith as he is still a well known labour activist in Pittsburgh
and of National attention to the Black Community.

here is a link to a 1971
JET magazine article pp20-28.

http://books.google.com/books?id=tjcDAA ... pg=PA20&dq