Jerry Evans
The Byrdstown Bomber
Nationality: Irish
Weight 169-183
Trainers: Lou Gross and Hiawatha Gray
Fought out of Miami, Byrdstown Tenn. Indianapolis Ind.
Fought as Light-Heavyweight and Heavyweight
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Evans opponents
1968 weights
Sept. 11-Jim Darby, Indianapolis......KO 1 - -
Oct. 24-Roger Smith, Indianapolis....KO 1 - -
Oct. 30-Bob Hayes, Cincinnati........KO 4 - -
Dec. 4-Paul Williams, Indianapolis...W 4 - -
1969
Feb. 14-Marval Hill, Indianapolis..KO'd by 3 - -
Mar. 28-Gene Hunt, Indianapolis......KO 2 - -
Apr. 22-Moleman Williams, Houston.....L 6 - -
Nov. 4-George Holden, Miami Beach....W 8 182 189
Dec. 16-George Holden, Miami Beach...KO 2 - -
1970
Jan. 13-Lacey Hydra, Miami Beach.....KO 5 183 195
Jan. 27-Willie McIntyre, Miami Beach.KO 5 183 175
Feb. 24-Karl Zurheide, Miami Beach....W 10 174 -
Mar. 24-Arnie Brower, Miami Beach.....W 10 176 181
Aug. 11-J.C. Ponder, Miami Beach......W 10 174 162
Nov. 10-Joe Cholston, Miami Beach.....W 8 175 173
1971
Feb. 9-Florentino Fernandez, Miami
Beach........................KO'd by 6 - 171
Apr. 27-Paul Kasper, Miami Beach.....KO 7 177 177
July. 6-Vernon McIntosh, Miami Beach.KO 10 174 171
Aug. 10-Gomeo Brennan, Miami Beach....L 10 171 174
Nov. 13-Willie Walker, Byrdstown.....KO 1 - -
1972
Jan. 15-Ray Vega, Brydstown..........KO 4 182 194
(won heavyweight title of Tennessee)
Mar. 7-Chris Finnegan,London......KO'd by 5 181 173
Apr. 1-James Brannon, Jamestown.....KO 2 - -
July. 8-Charle Hall, Nashville.......KO 5 175 176
Sept. 2-Charlie Keyes, Byrdstown.....KO 7 173 195
Sept. 14-Charlie Jordon, Cleveland.....W 8 - -
Sept. 21-Ed Burd, Panama..............KO 4 - -
Dec. 5-Harold Carter, Des Moines.....L 6 - -
1973
Feb. 22-Vernon McIntosh, Miami
Beach..................... KO'd by 5 176 177
Aug 24-John Mason, Indianapolis......W 8 174 176
Sept. 22-John Mason, Indianapolis.....KO 4 175 175
Oct. 29-Ted Paxton, Indianapolis.....KO 3 175 176
1974
Feb. 16-Syvester Wilder, New Castle...W 8 172 177
Apr. 13-Robert Williams, New Castle..KO 1 170 163
199?
--- Tom Tullings, Muncie, IN D 8
Prepared by Sal Rappa of New York,
World Famous Boxing Historian, Feb. 2001
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