WelshDevilRob Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Pete Sanstol http://static.boxrec.com/wiki/thumb/a/a0/Sanstol2b.jpg/285px-Sanstol2b.jpg Boxing Record: Fights: 110 Won: 96 Lost: 6 Drawn: 8 Ko's: 27 Pete Sanstol (March 28, 1905 – March 13, 1982) was a Norwegian professional boxer. He is a World Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee. Background Peder Olai Sanstøl was the youngest of five children born to Jonas Jonasen Sanstøl (1864–1942) and Elen Dortea Nilsdatter Lindland (1860–1946) in Moi, Lunde municipality, in Rogaland county in Norway. He moved to Stavanger with his parents as a child. Sanstol learned to box in the club Kristiana AK. He was fourth champion in the flyweight class championship in 1923 and won gold in the bantam class championship in 1925, both times for Kristiana AK.[2][3][4] Career He embarked on a professional career in 1926. After winning his professional debut against the British boxing veteran Bert Gallard in Oslo, Sanstol was invited by Max Schmeling’s manager to train in Berlin. After Sanstol left Norway in the mid 1920s, he only occasionally returned. Winning all his bouts in Germany, Sanstol moved on to Paris, where he was compared to French boxing champion, Georges Carpentier. Discovered in Paris by American manager Lew Burston (1896–1969), Sanstol was brought to New York where he graduated from the club preliminaries to become the most sought after bantam in the eastern United States and Canada. http://static.boxrec.com/wiki/1/16/Sanstol-Schiller.jpg By late 1930, Sanstol had moved his headquarters from the Norwegian-American community of Bay Ridge, in Brooklyn, NY, to Montreal, Quebec where he came under the management of Raoul Godbout (1894–1975). The next year he won the World Bantamweight Title, as recognized by the Montreal Athletic Commission. He twice successfully defended his title before meeting Panama Al Brown for world supremacy in the 118-pound division. After narrowly losing that bout by a 15-round split-decision, Sanstol took a year off before resuming another campaign for the championship. He retired from boxing in late 1933, only to return again in 1935. He went back to fight in Berlin. The culmination of this chapter of his career was a title match with Sixto Escobar, which Sanstol lost. Sanstol had one more career bout; defeating Al Brown in Oslo a month after the Escobar fight just before his retirement. Sanstol later had a couple of charity bouts while serving in the United States Army during World War II. He became a U.S. citizen in 1943. Fighting style Sanstol was known for his aggression, energy, speed, amazing stamina and uncanny defense. He was also known for his ability to give the crowd a thrilling show. About the only attribute he lacked was the so-called "power punch", although a quarter of his 98 victories were by way of knockout. Throughout his early career, Sanstol used these skills to build an impressive record. In time, his fighting style gradually evolved from that of a careless youth, to that of a wizened veteran. After his bout with Panama Al Brown, Sanstol learned to pace himself better and to use every punch sparingly, not wasting a single drop of energy. Part of this evolution may have resulted from a chronically bad foot or ankle he first sustained during one of these title bouts; it would haunt and hobble him for the remainder of his professional career. Long-time Montreal Herald Sports Editor Elmer W. Ferguson (1885–1972) once described Sanstol’s evolved fighting style as follows: “ Sanstol first flashed on the Montreal fistic horizon half a dozen years ago. This writer recollects him knocking out Aleck Burlie in April 1928, over seven years ago at the Forum. In those days Sanstol was a bewildering bundle of speed and energy. His slim, tireless legs carried him around the ring at bounding, blinding speed. He threw his endless energy to the winds with complete abandon. He was a profligate spendthrift of energy and strength, of nerve force. He had all the carelessness of youth about vitality as expended in the ring. He had a seemingly endless supply. For ten or twelve rounds he could dance, bounce, leap and dash about the ring on those steel legs, and meanwhile his speeding fists could keep on throwing stinging punches at bewildering speed, punches from all angles. For not only did Sanstol bound about the ring. He ducked like lightning, weaved, bobbed, always going at top speed, a master-boxer in his own fashion, a fashion founded on speed and stamina. The fighting heart that blazes from his ice-cold eyes still sends him on. But fistic age has tempered the pace, has developed a new ring cunning, and a tendency to accomplish by polished skill what he once achieved by youthful energy that disdained to save itself, that was gladly thrown to the winds. Sanstol doesn't bound so much as he did. He moves now in a more shuffling fashion, as did great fighters before him, and as did such peerless runners as Schrubb and Nurmi, the greatest of all conservation stylists. Today Sanstol is inclined to save his legs, to some degree, and to employ instead the ring-craft he has acquired in nearly ten years of campaigning up and down the fistic lanes of two continents. Today he is more the Dempsey in his style, less the old Sanstol. His hands still carry their speed, his arms and shoulders the energy to hurl an endless barrage of punches. But he will be found doing much more of the weaving and bending to evade blows or get himself into hitting position. He will not be leaping five or six feet when an evasive swing of a few inches will suffice. He will be doing more of the bobbing and ducking and swinging from the hips, with which he used to delight crowds and bewilder his opponents.[9] ” Career highlights * Flyweight class championship in 1923 * gold in the Bantam class championship in 1925 * World Bantamweight Champion (1931) * Ranked by long-time Madison Square Garden Matchmaker Tom McArdle with legendary bantams Terry McGovern, Kid Williams, and Pete Herman (1931 Everlast Boxing Record) * Featured solo on the cover of the August 1931 The Ring magazine and in its accompanying article * Described in the article entitled "The Golden Bantams" (The Ring, December 1953 issue, page 13) as "one of the hottest local favorites the big town New York ever had. Pete, flashy, colorful and capable fought in the Ridgewood Grove Sporting Club in the Queens section of New York no less than 26 times in one year, packing the place every time." * Proclaimed the Ridgewood Grove’s “Greatest Ring Attraction" by The Ring magazine’s Ted Carroll * Ranked with Leo (Kid) Roy as Montreal's favorite boxer of the late 1920s/early 1930s * Inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame (2000) Later years After his boxing career ended, Sanstol worked various jobs in Norway, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, and Alaska, including restaurant owner, newspaper writer, recreation center director, hotel clerk, and translator, before settling down for good in the Long Beach/San Pedro area of California in the early 1960s. In 1957, he completed his autobiography entitled Gjennom Ringen.[10] He died in 1982 in Whittier, California after a series of strokes. On June 7, 2005, Lund municipality raised a monolith in a park in Moi to his memory, listed him as Norway's most-famous boxer. Source: wikipedia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Nominated by iamasadlittleboy Pete Sanstol "An unheralded legend of the ring who changed from being a whirlwind early in his career to being a wonderfully skilled fighter. He wasn't stopped once in 110 fights (96-6-8) took a version of the Bantamweight Title. Lost a razor thin decision to Panama Al Brown then avenged it 4 years later. Came back after all most 7 years to win his final 2 bouts. Tough, energetic and a forgotten ring icon." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csjPWwq2p0A?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csjPWwq2p0A?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></object> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemurphy Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 One that a lot of Fans, perhaps even some that border on being Boxing Historians, might not be as acquainted with as they should be. If Panama Al Brown is in our Hall of Fame, as expect he eventually will be as there aren't any HOF's he's NOT in, then you've got to include Sanstol, who everyone of the time agreed was his equal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 To be honest, I'd never heard of this guy before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 To be honest, I'd never heard of this guy before. Typical...you boxing fans that haven't heard of the good oldies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McBride Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I say yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapevine241 Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 never heard of him either. but iam, davemurphy and mcbride have vouched, so he gets my vote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted April 30, 2011 Author Share Posted April 30, 2011 Also currently in need of your votes: Stanley Ketchel: http://www.ringnews24boxingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=9972 Jack 'Kid' Berg: http://www.ringnews24boxingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=9973 Sam Langford: http://www.ringnews24boxingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=9520 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londoner Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Yes. To be honest i didn't know too much about him. But, his record of 96-6-8 is impressive. Also, of those 6 losses he never once lost by KO. He beat some very good fighters like Panama Al Brown, Archie Bell, Eugene Huat, Spider Pladner, Victor Perez, Petey Hayes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallen Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Yes he deserve's his place in the Hall of Fame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted May 12, 2011 Author Share Posted May 12, 2011 Yes he deserve's his place in the Hall of Fame Did you see much of him fighting, Dave? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallen Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Rob i was like a father to him lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted June 10, 2011 Author Share Posted June 10, 2011 7 more Votes needed to decide Pete Sanstol's fate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Sanstol no. Great fighter, but I don't view his record as quite worthy of the H of F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slip Capone Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 i voted no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 These are the fighters that have been voted into the ringnews24 Hall Of Fame by the members. http://ringnews24.com/index.php/blog/35-demo-content/13788-boxing-hall-of-fame.html#axzz1VC7gtzec Please check the Boxing History section and vote in the other nominee topics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted September 2, 2011 Author Share Posted September 2, 2011 9 more votes needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted October 22, 2011 Author Share Posted October 22, 2011 Pete Sanstol will not be entered into the Ringnews24 Hall of Fame as it is not possible for him to achieve the required 75% pass at 30 votes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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