Boxing in 1958: by Brian Zelley
As we travel back to '57/58 time period in
Professional boxing, the world champions
as of January 1958 included:
Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Carmen Basilio,
Joe Brown, Hogan "Kid" Bassey,
Alphonse Halma and Pascual Perez.
Some top ranked fighters
Heavyweights
Eddie Machen, Zora Folley, Roy Harris,
Pat McMurtry and Mike DeJohn.
Eddie Machen on the front page.
In the light heavy and middle we had:
Harold Johnson, Yvon Durelle, Tony Anthony,
Gene Fullmer, Rory Calhoun,
Joey Giambra and Bobby Boyd.
Welterweights and Lightweighta
Gil Turner, Isaac Logart, Virgil Akīns,
Kenny Lane, Ralph Dupas, Joe Lopes
and Orlando Zulueta.
The lighter divisions had a grat mix
of talented boxers suchas:
Ike Chesnut, Ricardo Moreno,
Peter Keenan, Pone Kingpetch
and Paul Jorgensen.
One of the outstanding boxers in '58
was Vince Martinez whose victory
over Gil Turnerput him in contention
for the vacant welterweight title
along with Virgil Akins and
Isaac Logart but there was
also Tony DeMarco.
Some new faces and names that
folks would pay attention to wou'd be
Joe DeNucci and Denny Moyer,
Denny Moyer, from Portland, Oregon.
Some interesting fights were
Joey Giardello over Tiger Jones ,
Paoli Rossi over Johnny Busso
and lightweight title fight that
had champion Joe Brown stopping Joe Lopes.
British Empire Boxing
At the start of 1958 some of
the top boxers were:
Joe Erskine, Joe Bygraves,
Yvon Durelle, Gordon Wallace,
Wilf Greaves, Dick Tiger, George Barnes,
Dave Charnley, Armand Savoie,
George Bowes, and Terry Spinks.
Wilfie Greaves, Edmonton's own
An Important Canadian fixture
was televised amateur boxing
in Ontario that began in 1953.
Noted pro fight promoter
Jack Allen felt televised amateur
boxing in Toronto kept pro
boxing and amateur boxing
alive in Toronto.'s George Chuvalo
George Chuvalo
