Marty Gold

Name: Marty Gold
Alias: Martin Goldberg
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1958-12-15 (Age:54)
Height: 160cm
Pro Boxer: Record

Son of Simon Goldberg and Mina Barker (both originally from Russia), Marty Gold was ranked in 1930 and 1931 for eight straight months by The Ring magazine in its top ten rankings as a flyweight. He fought "on the road" for much of his career, and he lost many "hometown" decisions. Fought and lost to world flyweight champions Midget Wolgast, Newsboy Brown, Johnny McCoy, Frankie Genero,and Frenchy Belanger, and bantamweight world champion Al Brown. Defeated Belanger Twice in 1930. These two victories over Belanger were the only victories Gold scored over the many world champions he battled throughout his career. It also appears that Gold was never stopped inside the distance. Even though he was a highly ranked world class flyweight Gold never got a shot at the flyweight title. Had at least 13 or 14 fights with various World Champion fighters losing 13 times and winning twice, including fighting World Flyweight Champion Midget Woldgast six times losing all six. He also fought World Champions like Newsboy Brown, Jackie Wilson, Al Brown, Tony Marino, Frankie Genero and Frenchy Belanger being the only World Champion he managed to defeat by official decision-though some newspapers sources had him winning over Genero also. He also fought world class flyweight contender Willie Davis 8 times, losing every time-but every fight was competitive and close.

Most of the 1923-1925 bouts results in the linked career record are from IBRO Journal Issue No. 72--compiled by Chuck Hasson from the Philadelphia Record.