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Bob Pastor (January 26, 1914 – January 26, 1996) born Robert E. Pasternak, was a prominent American boxer. He was a top-ranked Heavyweight of the 1940s who once challenged for the world title, losing to Joe Louis. ==Professional boxing career== Pastor began his professional boxing career on his 21st birthday, January 26, 1935, fighting Julius Veight, a veteran who, with a record of 10 wins and 20 losses coming in, had a considerable experience advantage over the debutante boxer. The fight was held at Ridgewood Grove, Brooklyn, New York, and Pastor outscored Veight to win a six round points decision. The fight with Veight was the beginning of an eight fight winning streak that saw Pastor score his first knockout, a fourth round stoppage of another veteran, 11-29-10 Frank LoBianco, at the Dyckman Oval, in New York City, June 12, 1935. Pastor fought at Yankee Stadium on September 24 of that year, outpointing 21-20-2 Terry Mitchell over four rounds. On November 1, in a fight of undefeated prospects, Pastor, by then 7-0 with 1 knockout win, faced Max Marek, who was 5-0, 2 knockouts coming in. This bout marked Pastor's first fight as a professional boxer at the Madison Square Garden. Pastor improved to 8-0 by outpointing Marek over 6 rounds. 28 days later, Pastor received the first blemish on his record, a six round draw (tie) against Eddie Sims, 23-15-1 coming into their bout. The fight with Sims was followed by an encounter with ranked contender Steve Dudas, 36-7, on January 17, 1936, at the Madison Square Garden. This fight ended with Pastor being defeated for the first time as a professional fighter, Dudas taking the fight by an eight round decision. A draw against Al Delaney, 31-5-2, came after that, and then a rematch with Dudas in which Pastor avenged his earlier defeat by outpointing Dudas over 6 rounds on March 13 at the Madison Square Garden. Pastor's next fight was highly unusual in that opponent Art Sykes, 11-12-1, suffered a nervous breakdown before their bout, returning to his hotel from the arena, and had to be persuaded to return from the hotel and fight.〔http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=10529&cat=boxer〕 Sykes became disinterested in fighting and leaped out of the ring in round six, quitting and officially giving Pastor his second knockout win. A win over Terry Mitchell in a rematch came after the fight with Sykes, then wins against Frankie Sims and Ralph Barbara (the later at St. Nicholas Arena) to set up a rubber-match with Dudas, on June 19, 1936, in which Pastor won by six round decision. The third Pastor-Dudas match-up was fought at Yankee Stadium. Pastor then took on John Andersson, 31-15-14, on July 7, 1936. This fight was significant in that it marked the first time Pastor boxed outside New York state as a professional. The bout was held at the Braddock Bowl, Jersey City, New Jersey, and Pastor came out on top with a fourth round technical knockout. On August 1, 1936, Pastor fought in another rather unusual fight, when he met a boxer named Unknown Winston, at the Walnut Beach Stadium in Milford, Connecticut. The October, 1936 issue of Ring Magazine stated that Winston had fought Lou Poster on the day of the fight, not Bob Pastor, and that the fight had been held on August 12 instead. But the magazine later corrected that information in its next issue, clarifying that it was Pastor, not Poster, who faced Winston and that the fight had been held on August 1. In this fight, Pastor won by a ten round decision.〔http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=10529&cat=boxer〕 He followed that with a win over Stanley Ketchell's brother Billy Ketchell, and three wins over mediocre opposition (whose combined records numbered 20 wins, 36 losses and 6 draws) before facing Ray Impelletiere, 10-6 but who held the USA New York State's Heavyweight title. Pastor won the regional belt when he dropped Impelletiere twice before stopping him in round seven, on December 18, 1936 at the Madison Square Garden. With that, Pastor was set to face upcoming star, Joe Louis, 29-1 at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bob Pastor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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