In looking at among the smallest but finest boxers of all time from Willie ‘Will o’ the Wisp’ Pep to Ricardo ‘Finito’ Lopez!
Pep, from Rocky Hill, Connecticut, had extra wins than most not to mention the smallest of boxers. He twice held the featherweight title. From November of 1942 to October 1948. Once more, from February 1949 to September 1950.
Pep’s remaining file was an impressive 229-11-1 with 65 stoppages. He as soon as instructed middleweight champion Rocky Graziano, ‘You couldn’t hit me with a fist stuffed with stones!’
Pep gained his first 62 fights earlier than shedding a ten-round determination to former light-weight champion Sammy Angott on March 19, 1943. He defeated Chalky Wright by a 15-round unanimous determination on the age of 20 to win the NYSAC World Featherweight championship on November 20, 1942. He defeated NBA World Featherweight champion Sal Bartolo by a Twelfth-round knockout to change into the undisputed World Featherweight champion on June 7, 1946.
Pep had a 134-1-1 file when he misplaced to sandy Saddler, 86-6-2, by a 4th spherical knockout on October twenty ninth, 1948. He defeated Saddler in a rematch by a unanimous 15-round determination to regain the title on February 11, 19, 1949.
Pep retired in 1959, solely to return in 1965, and fought ten extra instances earlier than retiring for good on the age of 1943. On April 26, 1965, he defeated Jackie Lennon, and this author was in attendance, although not but a author. He gained 9 of 19 shedding his remaining struggle to Calvin Woodland.
WBC, WBA, WBO Minimumweight and Gentle Flyweight champion Ricardo ‘Finito’ Lopez was 51-0-1 with 38 stoppages, from Mexico Metropolis, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Lopez was 47-0 when he was held to a draw by Rosendo Alvarez, 24-0, by D-TD in 7 rounds. He was knocked down within the 2nd spherical. Alvarez misplaced one level within the seventh spherical as a result of WBC unintended head butt rule. It was on August 7, 1998. On November thirteenth, within the rematch, Lopez gained a break up determination so as to add the vacant WBA title to his WBC title.
Within the subsequent struggle Lopez gained the IBF World Gentle Flyweight title defeating Will Grigsby, 14-1-1, on October 2nd, 1999 by break up determination. Then gained his final two fights by stoppage over Anucha Phothong, 38-5-1, and Zolani Petelo, 17-2-2.
World Flyweight champion Jimmy ‘The Mighty Atom’ Wilde, 121-1-1, gained the title by stopping Dick Heasman, 4-0, in London within the second spherical. He was from Tylorstown, Wales, UK.
Wilde misplaced his final two fights ending with a 132-4-1 file with 98 stoppages.
Pascual Perez was the 1948 Olympic Gold Medalist in London. At 4:11 nicknamed ‘El Leon Mendocino’ from Ciudad Mendoza, Argentina.
On November 26, 1954, Perez, 23-0-1, gained the World Flyweight title defeating Yoshio Shiral, 46-6-4, in Tokyo, Japan. Within the rematch he scored a knockout in 5 rounds.
Perez was 51-0-1, when he misplaced to Sadao Yaoita, 27-6, in Tokyo, Japan, in January of 1959. He gained the rematch in November, with a tenth spherical knockout. He ended with an 84-7-1 file with 57 stoppages.
