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The Boxing Biographies Newsletter

Volume 8 – No 9 17 July , 2012

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LONDON 2012

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

GOOD LUCK TO TEAM GB

 

 

Name: Wally Thom

Born: 1926-06-14

Nationality: United Kingdom

Hometown: Birkenhead, Merseyside, United Kingdom

Boxing Record: 42-11-1 (KO 19) = 54

The deeper you dig into the ring record of Birkenhead Wally Thom the more impressive becomes the fight career of a man who must rank very high on the list of Merseyside’s all time boxing greats. As an amateur he was a junior ABA finalist on two occasions, a senior ABA finalist, boxed internationally against Denmark, reached the finals of the European Championships in Dublin, and also won a Welsh title.

Name: Harold Blackshear

Career Record: click

Alias: Jim Buckley

Nationality: US American

Birthplace: Monterrey, Mexico

Hometown: San Francisco, California, USA

Stance: Orthodox

Height: 6′ 1″

Trainer: Dolph Thomas

 

Oakland Tribune

18 January 1940

WALKER STOPS BLACKSHEAR

IN THRILLING NINTH ROUND

Monterey Negro Floored Three Times

Before Referee Stops Slashing Battle

 

No one is to blame for Harold Blackshear's plight but Harold himself. Had the Monterey Negro emulated Al Jolson and asked Sonnyboy to sit upon his knee and listen to a lullaby, all might have gone well.

 

But, no. Blackshear wanted to play rough. Sonnyboy Walker Fell into the spirit of the occasion, and as a result Harold was kayod with a Beautiful finality in the ninth round of last night's Auditorium main event.

 

Name: Don Cockell

Birth Name: Donald John Cockell

Born: 1928-09-22

Birthplace: Balham, London, United Kingdom

Died: 1983-07-18 (Age:54)

Nationality: United Kingdom

Hometown: Battersea, London, United Kingdom

Stance: Orthodox

Height: 5′ 11″ / 180cm

Reach: 71″ / 180cm

Boxing Record: click

 

 

Rocky Marciano sent courageous Don Cockell home to England on his shield Monday night, a blood-spattered technical knockout victim in 54 seconds of the ninth round in the fifth defense of his world heavyweight title.

 

Team GB's London 2012 boxers, from left, Luke Campbell, Tom Stalker, Anthony Joshua, Fred Evans and Andrew Selby. Photograph: Scott Heavey/Getty Images

The sight of Cuban boxers jogging around an Olympic village in sweatsuits in the early hours once carried familiar, quadrennial menace. They have, after all, dominated the sport at nearly every Games since Teófilo Stevenson terrorised his heavyweight contemporaries in Munich, Montreal and Moscow, with gold spread through most of the other weights too, and the challenge was always to move out of their shadow.