SLAKKA, I'm probably one of the few ESB to see Georgie Abrams live, snd he was a helluva middleweight..I saw Georgie Abrams fight Marcel Cerdan, in Cerdan's debut in the USA..1946, MSG...Marcel Cerdan had his hands full but eked out a dec. Look at Abrams victims...Teddy Yarosz, Billy Soose, Coco Kid, Steve Belloise, Lou Brouilard, etc..Abrams drew with Charley Burley, no small feat and lost a disputed, and booed decision to a prime Ray Robinson...He also dropped Tony Zale...Today Abrams would be middleweight champion for sure...Greatly forgotten now...
This would have been even better 8 years previously: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxk5RpDZAy0[/ame]
Louis Kid Cocoa vs Washington's own Georgie Abrams by Nate Phillips THE RING. Nov 1940 At Washington, another Madison Square Garden attraction was presented in the main go of ten rounds between the number one welterweight contender, Louis Kid Cocoa. THE RING'S No. 5 middleweight and Washington's own Georgie Abrams. Cocoa scaled 1481/2 and Abrams, 158. For the first three rounds, Abrams took the fight to Cocoa and had a slight edge, but at the start of the fourth, Cocoa found the range with that left of his and landed many telling blows in infighting. the fifth, sixth and seventh were very big rounds for Cocoa who had Abrams' left eye cut. Abrams won the eighth by a shade, but in the ninth, Cocoa staggered Abrams and won the round. In the tenth and final, both went at it with Cocoa having a little the better of it, to take the round. The judges declared Abrams the winner at the end of a very good fight
