Soldier Bartfield
Name: Soldier Bartfield
Birth Name: Jakob Bartfeldt
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Died: 1970-10-02 (Age:78)
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 174cm
Referee: Record
Pro Boxer: Record
Managers: Bob Clark, Dan McKetrick
Soldier Bartfield had a remarkable career of over 220 recorded fights, fighting some of the greatest boxers of all time, multiple times, and at the height of their careers. In addition to the verified fights in the linked record, he began his career in Texas while in the army, supposedly fighting Bob French (W Pts 20) and Battling Hansen (W ko 9), among others. Of course his army service gave him his nickname of "Soldier."
According to the record posted on BoxRec, Bartfield had fifty-five fights against recognized world champions or title claimants. He fought generally recognized champions Harry Greb five times, Benny Leonard four times, Jack Britton eight times, Ted "Kid" Lewis six times, Mike O'Dowd five times, Mickey Walker three times, Dave Rosenberg twice, Al McCoy four times, Mike Glover once, Billy Papke once, Jimmy Jones once, Johnny Wilson once, and Jimmy Slattery once; as well as title claimants like Mike Gibbons three times, Mick King once, Bryan Downey three times, "Kid" Graves five times, and Jock Malone once. He defeated Greb, Lewis, Britton, O'Dowd, Graves, McCoy, Downey, King and Papke. On top of that if not for the no decision era would have won the Welterweight and Middleweight World Titles due to winning several title fights via newspaper decision, but not getting world title consideration because he didn’t stop Al McCoy and Ted “Kid” Lewis inside the distance while winning newspaper decisions under world championship considerations.
Bartfield was also the uncle of boxer Danny Bartfield.