K.O. Kruvosky

Name: Edward KO Kruvosky
Alias: Ed Kruvosky
Birth Name: Edward Joseph Kruvosky/Krucovsky
Hometown: San Francisco, California, USA
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 1962-04-10 (Age:65)
Stance: Southpaw
Height: 183cm
Pro Boxer: Record

Manager: Sol Levinson

Edward K.O. Kruvosky was the brother of fellow boxer Bevo Kruvosky.

K.O. Kruvosky was accused, along with Edmond 'Spud' Murphy, of attacking two young women Thanksgiving morning 1920, holding them against their will, and tearing off the clothing from at least one of them, subjecting her to "insults, indignities and brutalities." [1]

These "unspeakable crimes" caused the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to ban prize-fighting in December, and to suspend all permits. Oakland and Fresno soon followed suit. (That December the Oakland City Council would require boxers to provide credentials proving that they had other means of support beyond boxing earnings.) [2]

After boxing was eventually resumed, San Francisco continued to ban almost all of the established boxers who had fought in their clubs prior to the ban, until boxing was legalized statewide four years later in late 1924. Meanwhile, many of these boxers quit fighting, or fled to other parts of California or to the Pacific Northwest.