DAYTON PROFESSIONAL BOXERS
Compiled by Tom Archdeacon
Eddie Brandt
- Good lightweight journeyman
- Former president of Old Time Boxers’ Club of Dayton
Sugar Costner, Cincinnati/Dayton
- Top ranked welterweight
- Beat Kid Gavilan and Ike Williams
- Lost to Jake LaMotta and Sugar Ray Robinson
Charles “Buddy” Knox
- Heavyweight contender
- Trained Dayton Golden Gloves team
Joe Marinelli
- World ranked featherweight
- Defeated two former world champs, Jmmy Perrin and Joey Archibald, at Memorial Hall
Joe Sekyra
- Top rated light-heavyweight and heavyweight
- Later coached Dayton Golden Gloves team
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