Administrators Please change Johnny Shkors Height to 6'4

[BrocktonBlockbuster49]

1950 heavyweight johnny shkor as been incorrectly portrayed as 6'2. he was not. he was actually 6'4 near the 6'5 border.

I did some research and found at least 5 newspaper clippings reporting shkor being 6'4, with two of them reporting 6'5!


here some of them

Fitchburg Sentinel Described Shkor on Feb. 11 1942 as "six foot four 215lber"



"Walcott knocked out Baltimore's Johnny Shkor in the first round tonight at the arena. ... Walcott came out at the bell, danced around his six foot, four inch opponent ..." Portland Press Herald (Newspaper) - March 14, 1950, Portland, Maine






Post-Standard - October 25, 1951, Syracuse, New York described Shkor as "6'4 220lber"


The Lima News - March 14, 1950 described Shkor as "King Sized 6'4"




Charleston Gazette - October 25, 1951

"I fought Johnny Shkor and he was 6-foot 4 and about 220 pounds. That won't bother me....."- A small Piece spoken by ROCKY MARCIANO in a interview talking about fighting the much bigger Joe Louis tomorrow.

[BrocktonBlockbuster49]

New York Times March 13, 1950

WALCOTT TRIUMPHS BY KNOCKOUT IN FIRST

Philadelpha (AP)--Jersey Joe Walcott, 36 year old, Camden, New Jersey heavyweight, knocked out Baltimore's Johnny Shkor in 1:34 of the first round tonight at the Arena. Walcott weighed 197 and Shkor 216 for the scheduled ten-rounder.
Walcott came out at the bell, danced around his 6-foot-4-inch opponent for a minute or so and then struck with a right to the jaw that floored Shkor as if he had been hit with a blackjack.
The big Polish-American fell flat on his back. At the count of six he started to rise, but pitched forward on his face.
Shkor's handlers and Pennsylvania commission physician Dr Joseph I Leary jumped into the fing and spent five minutes reviving the stricken fighter.

[John]

It's a hard call, but experience tells me that publicists add about 2 inches on average