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• 17:59, 10 April 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:75594 (Created page with "<fight>75594</fight> Parisian Marcel Pigou used youth and a late round rally Saturday night to take a split decision over old warhorse Ralph (Tiger) Jones in a nationally televised 10-round bout. Each fighter weighed 159 1/4. Jones, a 33-year-old New Yorker making his 42nd television appearance, built up a lead in the middle rounds but tired badly in the last two rounds. Pigou, bleeding from two cuts, opened up a two-handed attack in the last two rounds, winning the nin...")
• 20:24, 5 April 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:75645 (Created page with "<Fight>75645</fight> Though his speed, left hand, and experience won handily enough for him, Rocky Castellani, 159, Luzerne, had to weather a couple of rough spells in a fast eight with young Ralph Jones, 155 3/4., Yonkers, at the Ridgewood Grove. Undaunted by his opponent's reputation, Jones carried the fight to Castellani all the way, and uncovered a real thrill by dropping Rocky for eight in the third. Castellani also was staggered by a right in the fifth. [The Ring,...")
• 19:59, 5 April 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:75648 (Created page with "<Fight>75648</fight> Wilkes-Barre’s Bobby Lloyd and Tiger Jones, New York, fought an eight-round draw at Sunnyside Gardens, New York City, last night. The referee voted 3-5 in favor of Jones. One judge ruled 5-3 for Bobby, while the second judge scored the bout 4-4 with six points for each battler. (The Tribune, Scranton, PA.)")
• 19:47, 5 April 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:75650 (Created page with "<Fight>75650</fight> Sal DiMartino, 154, Hartford, Conn., fought an eight-round draw last night with Ralph Jones, 151 ¼, Yonkers, N.Y., in the feature bout before a crowd of 2,000 at the Sunnyside Gardens. Two officials voted for a draw and the third voted for Jones.")
• 19:39, 5 April 2023 Dan talk contribs created page File:Tex Gonzales.jpg
• 19:39, 5 April 2023 Dan talk contribs uploaded File:Tex Gonzales.jpg
• 19:06, 5 April 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:75656 (Created page with "<Fight>75656</fight> Yonker's Ralph Jones, 153 1/2, hammered out a six-round decision over Al Niag, 153 1/4, of Harlem.")
• 15:54, 18 March 2023 Dan talk contribs created page File:Marciano-Beshore.jpg
• 15:54, 18 March 2023 Dan talk contribs uploaded File:Marciano-Beshore.jpg
• 19:30, 26 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:42724 (Created page with "<Fight>42724</fight> Billy Fox, North Philadelphia and a product of The Inquirer A.A. Diamond Belt Tournamants, registered his 15th straight knockout when he disposed of Teddy Horton with a barrage of Teddy of rights after 23 seconds of the second round. [Philadelphia Inquirer]")
• 19:21, 26 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:38379 (Created page with "<Fight>38379</fight> Billy Fox, 162 1/2, scored a knockout over Tommy Ferraro, 158, U.S. Navy, at 2:03 of the first round when the sailor, dropped by a right, was slow arising. [Philadelphia Inquirer]")
• 19:16, 26 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:38372 (Created page with "<Fight>38372</fight> Billy Fox, 162, knocked out Billy Williams, 168, at 1:43 of the second round. [Philadelphia Inquirer]")
• 19:12, 26 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:38373 (Created page with "<Fight>38373</fight> Billy Fox, 163 ¼, North Philadelphia, city finalist last year in the Inquirer A.A. bouts, won his first pro battle, technically knocking out Billy Williams, 167 2/2, South Philadelphia, in 1:39 of the third round of the main preliminary. Williams was down in every round before the referee stopped it. [Philadelphia Inquirer]")
• 13:48, 24 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page File:Ray Phillips.jpg
• 13:48, 24 January 2023 Dan talk contribs uploaded File:Ray Phillips.jpg
• 20:30, 7 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:116059 (Created page with "<fight>116059</fight> Johnny Gonsalves strengthened his third place ranking in the lightweight division with a ten-round split decision over Virgil Akins of St. Louis. The Oakland fighter, 136, got the decision in the last few rounds by faster punching the 138-pound Akins. The fight at Chicago’s Rainbo Arena was nationally televised by ABC. There were no knockdowns, but Gonsalves had Akins reeling with a flurry of hard punches in the sixth round. The winner suffered a...")
• 15:01, 7 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Arthur Liebert (Created page with "Based in St.Louis, MO., Arthur Liebert managed Virgil Akins from 1948 to 1952.")
• 14:57, 7 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Bernie Glickman (Created page with "Bernard Glickman, a Chicago manufacturer with good boxing connections and co-manager of Virgil Akins.")
• 14:56, 7 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Eddie Yawitz (Created page with "St. Louis druggist who managed fighters. His star pupil was Virgil Akins")
• 14:46, 7 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Bill Farrell (Created page with "St. Louis, Missouri Trainer. Virgil Akins")
• 14:46, 7 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Lou Gross (Created page with "Trainer. * Virgil Akins")
• 14:44, 7 January 2023 Dan talk contribs created page Turuche (Chico) Larretz (Created page with "St. Louis, Missouri Trainer. * Virgil Akins")
• 21:47, 28 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:119203 (Created page with "<Fight>1192023/fight> Virgil Akins of St. Louis and Johnny Brown, from Chicago plodded through an eight-round draw in the last match of the evening. The fight was dull one for the first four rounds and, if possible, grew duller. At the beginning of the sixth round Referee Jimmy Parker called the two men together in the middle of the ring and asked them if they could possibly speed up the action a little bit. The talk did some good, but not much. Most of the crowd began...")
• 21:34, 28 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:119200 (Created page with "<Fight>119200</fight> Virgil Akins of St. Louis stopped Tommy Maddox of Chicago last night in the fourth round of a scheduled 10-round bout at Marigold Gardens. Akins, 148, floored Maddox, 149, twice in the first round and was in complete command before Dr. Irving Slot stopped the bout. '''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'''")
• 21:20, 28 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:72467 (Created page with "<Fight>72467</fight> Virgil Akins of St.Louis, won a unanimous eight-round decision over Henry Hank of Detroit last night in the featured bout at Motor City Arena. Akins, weighing 153, florred Hank, 149 ¼, twice – once in the first round and again in the third. Both were for nine counts. Hank made his best showing in the second round when he started a counterattack after barely surviving the first round knockdown. The veteran Akins was never in difficclult. He appear...")
• 21:10, 28 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:119140 (Created page with "<Fight>119140</fight> Andrew Brown, local welterweight, successfully hurdled his most important pro ring test Saturday night at the Coliseum when he gained a split decision over Virgil Akins of St. Louis in a 10-round slugfest. Brown piled up a commanding lead in the early rounds only to have Akins come on strong in the last three stanzas. In the toe-to-toe sessions the youthful New Orleans welter had the better of some fierce exchanges which brought a warning from the r...")
• 20:51, 28 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:119139 (Created page with "<Fight>119139</fight> Virgil Akins, ring-rusty after a 10-month layoff, still had enough to pound out an eight-round TKO over Joey Greenwood of Akron, Ohio in the last bout of the evening. Akins scored a knockdown in the fifth and two more in the seventh. He turned tiger in the seventh and really poured it on a game, but outclassed Greenwood, and the Akron boy couldn’t come out for the eighth. Greenwood weighed 143 1.2, just a half pound less than Akins who showed the...")
• 20:16, 21 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page File:Iggy Vaccari.jpg
• 20:16, 21 December 2022 Dan talk contribs uploaded File:Iggy Vaccari.jpg
• 19:50, 21 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page File:Woodcock-Oma.jpg
• 19:50, 21 December 2022 Dan talk contribs uploaded File:Woodcock-Oma.jpg
• 19:26, 21 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page File:Cerdan-TurpinTR0649.jpg
• 19:26, 21 December 2022 Dan talk contribs uploaded File:Cerdan-TurpinTR0649.jpg
• 19:12, 21 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page File:Foster-PelloneTR0449.jpg
• 19:12, 21 December 2022 Dan talk contribs uploaded File:Foster-PelloneTR0449.jpg
• 18:51, 21 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page File:Frankie Fernandez-Tommy Bell112348.jpg
• 18:51, 21 December 2022 Dan talk contribs uploaded File:Frankie Fernandez-Tommy Bell112348.jpg
• 20:24, 5 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:119122 (Created page with "<Fight>119122</fight> In a round and a half, Akins dished out a terrific beating to Moore's mid-ribs which caved in Moore and that was that. A doctor was called in to examine Moore after the knockout and found a cracked rib. (Wichita Eagle)")
• 20:14, 5 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:119116 (Created page with " <Fight>119116</fight> In a rematch, Virgil Akins won a unanimous decision in a highly action-packed six-rounder. There were no knockdowns, but both boys took plenty of punishment. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Apr 22,1948.")
• 20:07, 5 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:119115 (Created page with " <Fight>119115</fight> Virgil Akins won on a foul for 10 minutes in a bristling battle with Charley Baxter of Cincinnati, but another commission decision reversed the verdict. Akins went down in the third round of a scheduled six from a left hook that appeared low. When he was unable to continue and seemed semi-paralyzed for several moments, Referee Paul Spic recommended the fight go to Virgil on a below-the-border clout. However, DR. Freedman said evidence showed Akins...")
• 19:21, 5 December 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:119114 (Created page with " <Fight>119114</fight> Virgil Akins, St. Louis’s outstanding amateur fighter during the past few years, will make his local pro debut against Albert Adams, Kansas City junior-welterweight, in a six-round match on Promoter Hans Bernstein’s boxing card Wednesday, March 10, at Kiel Auditorium. Akins won the local Golden Gloves titles in 1946 and 1947 and turned professional last November when he journeyed to Kansas City and fought under the names of “Jimmy Foxx.” He...")
• 18:48, 19 November 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Fight:285723 (Created page with "<Fight>285723</fight> Joe DeNucci, 164 ½, of Newton stopped Buddy Cochrane, 168 ½, of Somerville on a fourth round TKO in a scheduled 10-rounder at the Rollaway Arena. The referee refused to let Cochrane continue after examining him after the third round before a sellout crowd. DeNucci opened cuts over Cochrane’s eye in the early rounds.")
• 15:43, 14 November 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Human:1052104 (Created page with "<boxer>1052104</boxer> Nienhaus, twice a runner-up in the National Golden Gloves, and twice Amateur Athletic Union champion, represented the famed South Broadway Athletic Club in St. Louis. He was a member of the only team which won four National Golden Gloves titles in the same tournament. He was described as nimble and agile and rarely got hit. He was great at making his opponent miss punches and being able to parry blows and catch them on his arms or elbows. Nienhaus,...")
• 17:24, 6 November 2022 Dan talk contribs moved page Human:25048 to Baltimore Jimmy Elliott
• 17:20, 6 November 2022 Dan talk contribs created page Human:25048 (Created page with "left <boxer>25048</boxer>")
• 17:18, 6 November 2022 Dan talk contribs created page File:Jimmy Elliott.jpg
• 17:18, 6 November 2022 Dan talk contribs uploaded File:Jimmy Elliott.jpg
• 20:45, 29 October 2022 Dan talk contribs created page File:Caroline Svendsen.jpg
• 20:45, 29 October 2022 Dan talk contribs uploaded File:Caroline Svendsen.jpg
• 20:37, 29 October 2022 Dan talk contribs created page File:Caroline Svendsen Granted License.jpg

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