Rex Layne
Name: Rex Layne
Birth Name: Rex Gessel Layne
Hometown: Lewiston, Utah, USA
Birthplace: Lewiston, Utah, USA
Died: 2000-06-07 (Age:72)
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 185cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record
Manager: Marv Jensen
Rex Layne Gallery
Rex Layne was a Salt Lake City sugar beet farmer when he won the 1949 National AAU Heavyweight Championship vs. Gilmore Newkirk. According to the Oct. 29, 1949 Tacoma News Tribune, Layne was a Mormon who was a staff sergeant with an airborne division in World War II for 19 months, serving some time in Japan. He did not start boxing until he joined the Army. "When they sent out a call for boxing candidates at Soporo, Japan, he won the heavyweight championship of our troops in Nippon. Returning home in 1947, he dropped a close decision in an Olympic tryout to Jay Lambert, who won the United States Olympic title, and lost a decision in the London semifinals. Last spring Layne lost a close verdict to Utah State's Dale Panter in the Utah Golden Gloves, but earned a trip to Boston acquiring the A.A.U. Intermountain amateur championship by a knockout. In the Hub he won four bouts, three by knockouts, to account for the national championship."
| Preceded by: Coley Wallace |
National AAU Heavyweight Champion 1949 |
Succeeded by: Norvel Lee |
- Featured on the cover of the May 1951 The Ring magazine.
- Video of Layne vs. Rocky Marciano
- Edward Linn article: [1]