Hector Thompson vs Lawrence 'Baby Cassius' Austin was a beauty. The pair met 3 times inside 6 months, each time for the Commonwealth & Australian light welterweight titles and each time one title or both changed hands! April 1977 - Austin won by TKO in round 15 of 15, retaining his national title and winning Hec's Commonwealth title. June 1977 - Thompson won by SD over 15 rounds, winning back his Commonwealth title and taking Cass' national title with it. Sept 1977 - Austin won on PTS over round 15 rounds winning back the national and Commonwealth titles.
There was a fourth fight between these two. The first two you have listed are right, the third was in 1968, when Casey won the vacant title in Brisbane, on points. The fourth was also in Brisbane, in 1970 when Bibron took the title from Casey, in 7 rounds, cut eye stoppage. Foster Bibron didn't win the heavyweight title in 1962, he was ko'd by Tony Vickers in 2 rounds in Darwin in his first try at the title. He didn't win it until 1970. Also, I think Foster is a Victorian. Boxrec says his birthpace is Hawthorn, but I always thought he was from Gippsland. I'll add to the trilogy list with: Max Carlos vs George Bracken. 1957-58. 2-1 in favour of Max, with the second being a successful one , taking the Australian Lightweight title from George. Ambrose Palmer vs Jack Haines. In the space of three months in 1930. The first a surprise win by Ambrose over the Australian middleweight champ in a non-title fight. the second was a draw for the title & the third ended with a new champion & the end of Jack Haines' career.
Appreciate your post HOF, and the nominations towards the end of it. Have attempted to add the corrections you identified in below - hopefully I'll nail it this time mate: 'Fearless' Fred Casey represented Australia in the 1964 Olympics and joined the pro ranks in December that year. Casey's second fight would be the first of an exciting FOUR bouts with Hawthorn (Vic) born Foster Bibron. Casey would the Australian heavyweight title in only his 3rd pro bout in 1965. While Bibron would have to wait a lot longer, winning the Australian title in 1970, in his fourth and final match-up with Casey. Fred Casey and Foster Bibron's 4 meetings were as follows: 1965 - Casey winning in Brisbane by KO in round 3 of 12. 1967 - Bibron winning in Melbourne by TKO in round 2 of 12 (Casey cut eye). 1968 - Casey winning winning the vacant Australian title on PTS over 15 rounds in Brisbane. 1970 - Bibron winning the vacant Australian title in Brisbane by TKO in round 7 of 12 (Bibron cut eye). From the results above it's obvious the judges were only required the once - the other 3 times they sorted things out for themselves!
Got one involving 3 Australian title holders, 2 of them brothers. A southpaw fought one of the brothers 4 times and the other twice. Sound familiar to anyone? More to follow soon.......
There's not that many good Aussie trilogies in recent times mate - so the 4's (and more) shouldn't be ignored I don't think. ...I could always change the thread title if needs be - LOL. Did your family have something personal against Andy mate?
Andy Broome vs the Ropis brothers. Frank (4 times) & Matt (twice)? He beat Matt both times, but lost all four to Frank.
The well travelled Ray Perez was the real 'Mr 3 Time' Ced. Perez fought the following fighters at least 3 times: 1/ Lionel Rose. 2/ Rocky Gattelari. 3/ Billy Brown. 4/ Bob Allotey. 5/ Toro George. 6/ Larry Dingui. 7/ Ray Pacheco. 8/ Noel Kunde (a staggering 7 times if my count is correct). ....they're only the ones I counted and I could easily have missed a couple.
He certainly gave good value because Stadiums' managers in Sydney, Brisbane & Melbourne were keen to have rematches. They could see the $$$ the rematches would draw. Also,before coming to Australia to fight Rocky Gattellari, he fought three world flyweight champs in Walter McGowan, Hiroyuki Ebihara & Fighting Harada. He beat Lionel Rose in one of their three fights. Is Ray still living in Sydney?