I have been studying up on the row lately and am now looking into the carrer of Eddie Booker. This was a fine fighter to say the least with some outstanding wins over Moore, Marshall, Williams, and Shorty Hogue. He was very consistent to. Never seemed to have a let down. Only 5 losses in 70 some fights and all of his losses were to world class fighters (Williams, Chase, Hogue, Zivic, and Kid). He avenged a couple of those losses as well. It's a shame he had to retire when he was 26 because of an eye injury. He was fresh off a win in his final fight over Holman Williams, dominated Archie Moore a couple months earlier, and ko'd Matthews a month or two before that. Black Dynamite seemed to have all the tools. I might have to start rating him pretty high soon. It's a shame he didn't fight Burley. *edit* any information about this fighter would be welcomed. It can be pretty hard to dig up stuff on these guys.
Stonehands wrote an outstanding article on Booker and he may be kind enough to re-produce an article or two here. I agree that Booker has a record in the same ballpark as Burley's and he might even have been just as good. He was an artist by all accounts.
