As my name implies I was CLEVER. But in my last bout with a HOF fighter, I collapsed next morning and died from a brain injury..I was never a champ but was very popular in my small country...Who was I ?
Inocencio Moldes - Clever Sencio On April 20, 1926, shortly before 9:00 a.m., a window washer discovered 21-year-old Sencio lying dead in his hotel room, upon the bed in a pool of blood. This was the morning after his bout with Taylor. He had been in the United States for about eight months, and had engaged in half a dozen or so contests. It was later determined that he had died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Dr. Edward Milosphalvich said, "Sencio's body was that of a child in delicacy of structure." Sencio had "lightness of his arteries and veins on the left side of his skull, in the region of the forehead." Further, there was evidence of a previous hemorrhage. The doctor continued, "I feel positive death would have resulted in any encounter in which he engaged at that time. His vein and artery structure was too light and he simply was not suited for heavy ring combat." Sencio's funeral was held at St. John's Catholic church in Milwaukee on April 21. He was buried in Manila.
H, YOU, are too CLEVER ! Yes, Clever Sencio of the Phillipines, who was groomed to be the next Jimmy Wilde, but fate intervened ! :good
Bud Taylor had two boxers die as the result of his punches, Sencio and Frankie Jerome, who was kod by a left hook ,hit his head hard on the ring floor, and died two days later.
