Description
Mickey Walker
Birth name Edward Patrick Walker
Alias Toy Bulldog
Record 94-19-4
60 KOs 6 KOs
Bouts 119
Career 1919-1935
Debut 1919-02-10
Nationality USA
Stance orthodox
Height 5′ 7″ / 170cm
Reach 67″ / 170cm
Residence Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Birth place Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Born: 1901-07-13
Died: 1981-04-28 (Age 79)
Career Overview
The only welterweight champion to ever become a successful contender in the heavyweight ranks, Mickey Walker was one of the bravest, toughest, and most popular boxers of his generation. A rugged scrapper with little use for ring technique or proper conditioning, Walker had tremendous success with his unpolished warrior’s style. A two-division champion whose title reigns spanned nine years, he defeated five hall of fame opponents over his sixteen year career and also emerged victorious in ten matches against opponents who outweighed him by twenty pounds or more. He is routinely rated by historians as one of the greatest welterweights and middleweights in history, and was also a fine performer at both light heavyweight and heavyweight. Writers of the age constantly marveled at his small stature but superhuman toughness. Hence his entirely appropriate nickname, Toy Bulldog.
A talented painter and golfer, he pursued these two hobbies with great passion in his later life and died on April 21, 1981 at the age of seventy-nine. In 1990 he became part of the inaugural class of inductees into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Categories: Irish American Boxers| World Welterweight Champion| World Middleweight Champions Two Division World Champions| American World Champions |IBHOF Members |World Boxing Hall of Fame Members
