Ron Marsh

Name: Ron Marsh
Alias: Palooka
Birth Name: Ronald Gean Marsh
Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Birthplace: Boise, Idaho, USA
Died: 2013-09-08 (Age:70)
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 180cm
Judge: Record
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

As a amateur, Ron Marsh won 33 of 35 contests.

It was falsely reported for years that he had lost a March 11, 1968 fight down in Argentina to Gregorio Peralta, but Marsh insisted that someone fought Peralta under his name, as he had never left the U.S. [1] Minnesota Boxing Commission records (where Marsh and manager, Verne Gagne, were licensed) also corroborate this story, not showing any such fight on file for Marsh from 1968.

Marsh died aged 70, in Overland Park, Kansas, where he had been a schoolteacher for 30 years.

• "Ron Marsh" by Pete Ehrmann: [2]