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Looking at some of the smallest but best boxers of all time from Willie ‘O’ Wisp ‘Pep’ Pep to Ricardo ‘Finito’ Lopez!
Pep, with Rocky Hill, Connecticut, had more victories than most, let alone the smallest boxers. He held the title in Pero twice. From November 1942 to October 1948 again, from February 1949 to September 1950.
PEP’s final record was an extraordinary 229-11-1 with 65 stops. He once told the Rocky Graziano middle category champion: “You couldn’t hit me with a fist full of stones!”
PEP won the first 62 fights before March 19, 1943, lost the decision on a 10 -year round from the former champion in Sammy Angott’s lightweight category. He defeated Chalky Wright in the 15th round by unanimous decision at the age of 20, November 19, won at UTRANT, won Peather, Peather, Peather, in Peather, won Peather, Peather, in PEATHRIGORY, in Peather, in Peather, Peather. 1946.
PEP had a record of 134-1-1 when he lost to Sandy Saddler, 86-6-2, knockout of the fourth round 29 October 1948. He beat Saddler in the rematch with a unanimous decision of 15 rounds to return the title on February 11, 1949.
Pep retired in 1959, just to return in 1965, and fought ten times before he retired to good at the age of 1943. On April 26, 1965, Jackie Lennon won, and this writer was present, although he was not yet a writer. He beat 9 out of 19 by losing his last fight for Calvin Woodland.
WBC, WBA, WBO’s minimum weight champion and slight torment Ricardo ‘Finito’ Lopez was 51-0-1 with 38 stops, from Mexico City, Distito Federal, Mexico.
Lopez was 47-0 when D-TD kept him in 7 rounds to draw Rosenda Alvarez, 24-0. It was demolished in the 2nd round. Alvarez lost one point in the 7th round because of the WBC Rules of the random head. It was August 7, 1998 on November 13, in a rematch, Lopez won a distributed decision to add an empty WBA title to his WBC title.
In the next fight, Lopez won the IBF World light flying title, beating Will Grigsby, 14-1-1, October 2, 1999, Split Delaving. They then won in the last two struggles stopped over Anucha Phothong, 38-5-1, and Zolan Petelo, 17-2-2
Jimmy’s world champion in Jimmy ‘The Mighty Atom’ Wilde, 121-1-1, won the title stopping Dick Heasman, 4-0, in London in the second round. He was from Tylorstown, Wales, UK.
Wilde lost the last two fights, ending with a record of 132-4-1 with 98 stops.
Pascual Perez was a 1948 golden Olympic medal in London. At 4:11 Nickname ‘El Leon Mendocino’ from Ciudad Mendoz, Argentina.
November 26, 1954 Perez, 23-0-1, won the world title of flying victories by Yoshio Shiral, 46-6-4, Tokyo in Japan. He scored a knockout in 5 rounds in rematch.
Perez was 51-0-1, when he lost to Sadao Yaoit, 27-6, in Tokyo in Japan, in January 1959. He won the rematch in November, with the knockout of the tenth round. He finished with a 84-7-1 record with 57 stops.
