Walter Edgerton

Name: Kentucky Rosebud
Alias: Walter Edgerton
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1930-05-03 (Age:77)
Pro Boxer: Record

Manager Jimmy McHale

• African-American boxer.
• Exact date of birth unknown.
• "They are the famous Kentucky Rosebud, aged 63 years, and the equally famous John Henry Johnson, aged 45." (wire, January 24, 1916)
• "The Kentucky Rosebud, the former great negro featherweight, who modestly admits being 61 years old, knocked out his veteran rival John Henry Johnson, another dusky warrior, who admits to having been on this earth for forty-three summers and as many winters." (wire in Trenton Evening Times, January 28, 1916)
• "The Rosebud, who confesses to being 62 years old, ... knocked out John Henry Johnson, another veteran colored pugilist, whose span of life covers some 43 years". (wire in Indianapolis Freeman, February 12, 1916)
• "Philadelphia, May 18. John Henry Johnson, 56 years of age, defeated the Kentucky Rosebud, who is 61, in six rounds at the National A. C. here last night." (wire, May 18, 1916)
• "In the semi-windup there is offered a novelty in the bout between John Henry Johnson and the Kentucky Rosebud, two of the oldest pugilists in the world. The Bud is 60 years and Johnson near that mark." (Philadelphia Inquirer, August 22, 1916)
• "The semiwind-up was real exciting, as it brought together the Kentucky Rosebud and John Henry Johnson, a couple of sterling athletes who used to go big when Hector was a pup. The Bud is 55 years old and J. Henry a couple of years younger." (Robert Maxwell in Philadelphia Evening Ledger, August 24, 1916)
• "My record books show that the 'Bud' has turned his fiftieth year, but when he called on me he confidentially told me that he was 64 years old. I don't believe he is that old, but he says so and we've got to believe him." (Walter Schlichter in Philadelphia North American, quoted in Anaconda Standard, December 29, 1918)