Tami Mauriello

[Barn]

If I thought I could get more than 3 members......

I would happily join :-)

[Steak]

Interesting bit of Mauriello trivia:

When he lost a split decision to Gus Lesnevich in a challenge for the light heavyweight crown back in 1941, he was not yet 18 years old.

In that fight one judge had Mauriello winning 10-5... but was overruled by the other 2, who scored it for the defending champ 8-7 and 8-6-1, respectively.

In other words; if world title fights weren't decided by 3 individual scores, but by the TOTAL number of rounds awarded by the 3 judges, then Mauriello would have won with a score of 23-21-1, and would today be known as the youngest (17Y,11M,8D) ever world champion in one of the 8 classic divisions... and the 2nd youngest overall (behind Benitez)!

that actually is very interesting trivia, thank you for sharing.

now Im interested in seeing that fight.

[DarkTerror88]

I would happily join :-)

im cool enough to count as 2 people so 2 more people to join and then Marvelous so that means 3 +GJC=4
4>3
therefore more than three.
Im so smart.

[fitefanSHO]

According to his "Title Bout" fighter card bio...

"Contender during the middle 40's. Lost a title fight to Joe Louis and never received another shot although he was a contender for a number of years. A plodding slugger, Mauriello hit hard if not often, but took too many punches himself to get the job done."

[McGoorty]

Interesting bit of Mauriello trivia:

When he lost a split decision to Gus Lesnevich in a challenge for the light heavyweight crown back in 1941, he was not yet 18 years old.

In that fight one judge had Mauriello winning 10-5... but was overruled by the other 2, who scored it for the defending champ 8-7 and 8-6-1, respectively.

In other words; if world title fights weren't decided by 3 individual scores, but by the TOTAL number of rounds awarded by the 3 judges, then Mauriello would have won with a score of 23-21-1, and would today be known as the youngest (17Y,11M,8D) ever world champion in one of the 8 classic divisions... and the 2nd youngest overall (behind Benitez)!

Not even Darcy won a title at 17..... 19 yes,... I think there have been about half a dozen to win titles before 20 yo...... but please don't ask me to name them.

[McGoorty]

If I thought I could get more than 3 members......

Gee G. ......... maybe it's because I'm down under, but I never heard of Baksi.......... Say, did Barney ever send you that Darcy Mafia Invite ????..... I just remembered about that. ----------------- So tell me some Joe Baksi, sounds like a snooker player,........ I played millions of frames of Snooker in Sydney and every second bloke I played had a name like Baksi,..... you know the sort, Minici, Gimenez, Backo, Calabrese, Lulandi, Robertsoni, etceterari