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Kid Black

1712 KOs
174 KOs
5Draws
Last six: D-L-D-W-L-W
Career
division
Lightweight
status
inactive
bouts
39
rounds
221
KO %
70.6%
KO wins
12
KO losses
4
career
1916–1923
debut
1916-03-08
last fight
1923-05-14
Profile
sex
M
nationality
United States
origin
United States
city / state / zip
Buffalo, New York
dob
0000-00-00

Latest news

Keeping Philly boys out of gangs with boxing gloves and early intervention
2013-11-06 · Newsworks.org
Alan Gonzalez, 13, is a wiry kid, but somehow he looks perfectly at home in the noise and sweat of a boxing gym. With big black boxing gloves punctuating the ends of his skinny arms, Badlandz Gym on American Street in Philadelphia's Kensington …
Boxing Gym in Canton a 'dream come true' for two cousins
2013-07-23 · Canton Repository
Eyes fixed on an imaginary face, Chris Hoelzle throws bare-fist punches into the warm breeze running through the matchbox-size gym on the southwest side of the city. Feet away, a bright-eyed kid in black-rimmed glasses works himself into a sweat…
Spadafora scores KO in comeback bout
2006-11-23 · Review,PA
Instead of wearing his customary black and gold trunks, Paul Spadafora wore white with blue trim and emblazoned with a new nickname: The Comeback Kid.…
Bobby Dykes, fought Kid Gavilan, Sugar Ray Robinson, dead at 77
2006-06-01 · The Ledger,FL
Bobby Dykes, a veteran of 146 boxing matches who took on Kid Gavilan in the first ever match between black and white fighters in Miami, has died.…
Baddest man in boxing went out without a fight
2005-05-24 · The Australian World News
NOBODY can say for sure when the fighter Charles "Sonny" Liston was born because official record keepers in Depression-era Arkansas weren't all that fussed about another Negro kid coming into the world; especially one born to a dirt-poor plantation black who had already sired 23 children. Nor can anyone say with certainty how Liston died.…

Fight history

date
w-l-d
last 6
result
May 14
Benny Ross
16 8 3
W-PTS
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
6 of 6 · 143 / 153 lbs
Event →
Apr 18
Mike Dempsey
2 3 0
L-PTS
Convention Hall, Rochester, New York, United States
10 of 10 · 142 / 147 lbs
Event →
Jan 6
Carl Smith
3 0 0
W-KO
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
5 of 6 · 149 lbs
Event →
Dec 30
Sailor Hoffman
3 1 0
D-PTS
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
10 of 10 · 138 / 141 lbs
Event →
Dec 5
Frankie Venchel
10 10 4
L-KO
Rochester, New York, United States
5
Event →
Nov 28
Young Cross
28 18 7
D-PTS
Rochester, New York, United States
10 of 10
Event →
Nov 3
Young Neil
4 6 5
W-NWS
Armory, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
10 of 10
Event →
Apr 15
Young Cross
27 16 5
D-PTS
Arena, Syracuse, New York, United States
10 of 10
Event →
Feb 5
Fighting Zunner
49 34 14
W-PTS
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
10 of 10 · 150 / 146 lbs
Event →
Jan 21
Joe Hennessey
3 4 3
W-KO
Buffalo, New York, United States
3 · 149 / 146 lbs
Event →
Nov 26
Young Cross
23 15 5
L-MD
Arena, Syracuse, New York, United States
10 of 10 · 143 / 145 lbs
Judges: Jeremiah Yank Sullivan | Thomas O'Brien
Referee: Tommy Connolly
Event →
Nov 15
Joe Gaston
0 1 0
L-NWS
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States
10 of 10
Event →
Nov 12
Andre Blazy
3 1 0
W-KO
Arena, Syracuse, New York, United States
2 · 145 / 147 lbs
Event →
Oct 29
Sam Wilbert
8 3 0
W-KO
Arena, Syracuse, New York, United States
3 of 6 · 146 / 142 lbs
Judges: John Fay | Thomas O'Brien
Referee: Tommy Connolly
Event →
Aug 18
Joe Hurley
6 1 0
L-NWS
Arena, Syracuse, New York, United States
10 of 10
Event →
Aug 2
Johnny Cooney
5 3 0
W-KO
Bison Stadium, Buffalo, New York, United States
1 of 6 · 145 / 148 lbs
Event →
Jul 26
Frankie Nelson
38 35 4
W-NWS
Velodrome Park, Buffalo, New York, USA
6 of 6
Event →
Sep 1
Joe Gravelle
3 3 0
W-NWS
Bison Stadium, Buffalo, New York, United States
6 of 6 · 140 / 140 lbs
Event →
Aug 2
Young Dempsey
0 0 0
W-KO
Arena, Syracuse, New York, United States
6 of 6
Event →
Jun 24
Leo Michaliak
1 6 0
W-KO
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
2 · 143 / 148 lbs
Event →
Jun 6
Rocky Kansas
66 14 7
L-KO
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
2
Event →
May 24
Harry Boyle
30 24 6
L-TKO
Olean, New York, United States
5
Event →
Apr 17
Fighting Zunner
36 27 11
L-NWS
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
6 of 6 · 140 / 143 lbs
Event →
Apr 2
Kid Fewclothes
7 0 0
W-KO
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
4 · 142 / 146 lbs
Event →
Mar 19
Spider Lewis
11 7 7
L-NWS
Geneva, New York, United States
6 of 6 · 135 / 130 lbs
Event →
Jan 25
Eddie Dorsey
9 11 1
L-NWS
Buffalo, New York, United States
6 of 6
Event →
Oct 18
Eddie Dorsey
8 10 1
L-NWS
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
Event →
Oct 5
Mose Donnelly
0 0 1
W-TKO
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
2 · 144 / 141 lbs
Event →
Sep 27
Mose Donnelly
0 0 0
D-NWS
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
4 of 4 · 138 / 141 lbs
Event →
Aug 13
Johnny Burns
4 5 4
D-PTS
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States
10 of 10
Event →
Aug 3
Reddy Strauss
0 0 0
W-TKO
Urban Liberty Park, Buffalo, New York, United States
2 · 142 / 146 lbs
Event →
Jun 29
Frankie Nelson
28 26 3
L-NWS
Urban Liberty Park, Buffalo, New York, USA
6 of 6
Event →
Mar 8
Frankie Nelson
25 25 3
L-NWS
Fillmore & Broadway, Buffalo, New York, USA
10 of 10 · 142 / 136 lbs
Event →
Nov 30
Young Murphy
19 5 2
L-NWS
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
6 of 6 · 134 / 134 lbs
Event →
Oct 20
Mickey Kraus
0 0 0
L-NWS
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
6 of 6 · 137 / 138 lbs
Event →
Oct 13
Battling Ray
1 2 1
W-KO
Buffalo, New York, United States
1 · 137 / 142 lbs
Event →
Sep 25
Nick Schilling
0 0 0
W-KO
Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, United States
2 · 138 / 137 lbs
Event →
Mar 13
Ray Graham
2 0 0
L-DQ
Jamestown, New York, United States
4
Event →
Mar 8
Frankie Nelson
13 18 3
L-KO
Coliseum, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
4 of 6
Event →