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Joe Walcott, (March 13, 1873 – October 1, 1935) also known as Barbados Joe Walcott to distinguish him from the American
Jersey Joe Walcott

Arnold Raymond Cream , better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He broke the world's record for the oldest man to win the world's Heavyweight title when he earned it at the age of 37....
 known by the same name, was born in Demerara
Demerara

Demerara in South America was one of the original United Kingdom colonies that were joined into the colony of British Guiana, now Guyana. It was located about the lower courses of the Demerara River, and its main town was Georgetown, Guyana....
, British Guyana on March 13, 1873, and died October 1, 1935. Nicknamed "The Barbados Demon" Walcott, stood 5'1 1/2 tall, was a formidable fighter who fought from 1890 to 1911.

ott spent part of his youth in Barbados.






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Joe Walcott, (March 13, 1873 – October 1, 1935) also known as Barbados Joe Walcott to distinguish him from the American
Jersey Joe Walcott

Arnold Raymond Cream , better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He broke the world's record for the oldest man to win the world's Heavyweight title when he earned it at the age of 37....
 known by the same name, was born in Demerara
Demerara

Demerara in South America was one of the original United Kingdom colonies that were joined into the colony of British Guiana, now Guyana. It was located about the lower courses of the Demerara River, and its main town was Georgetown, Guyana....
, British Guyana on March 13, 1873, and died October 1, 1935. Nicknamed "The Barbados Demon" Walcott, stood 5'1 1/2 tall, was a formidable fighter who fought from 1890 to 1911.

Biography

Walcott spent part of his youth in Barbados. As a youngster, he set out to see the world, and got a job as a cabin boy on a ship sailing to Boston. He soon settled in Boston as a piano mover, porter and other odd jobs. Later, he landed a job in a gym, and became popular with other boxers as a human punching bag before turning professional.

Professional career


Walcott first challenged for the lightweight
Lightweight

The word lightweight usually refers to a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight. It is also a slang term, indicating insignificance or ineptitude, for example having a low tolerance for liquor....
 crown on October 29, 1897, but was TKO'ed by the champion George "Kid" Lavigne in the 12th round. He was also unsuccessful in his first attempt to win the world welterweight
Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system....
 title when he was outpointed by Mysterious Billy Smith
Mysterious Billy Smith

Mysterious Billy Smith was a Canadian Boxing. He turned pro in 1890, and in his ninth fight he knocked out Danny Needham to win the welterweight championship in 1892....
 on December 6, 1898. Walcott won the title on December 15, 1901 from James "Rube" Ferris via a 5 round TKO.

On April 4, 1904 Walcott defended his title against Dixie Kid
Dixie Kid

Aaron Lister Brown also known as Dixie Kid was a world welterweight boxing champion....
. He was winning the fight handily when the referee disqualified Walcott for no apparent reason in the 20th round. The match was disregarded as a title bout when it was discovered that the referee had bet on Dixie Kid to win the match.

Walcott also fought the well known Sam Langford
Sam Langford

Sam Langford was an African Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," by ESPN....
 to a draw, and met Joe Gans
Joe Gans

Joe Gans was born Joseph Gant in Baltimore, Maryland. Gans was rated as the greatest lightweight boxer of all time by boxing historian and Ring Magazine editor, Nat Fleischer and was known as the "Old Master"....
 in a non-title fight. The Gans fight occurred on September 30, 1904, and was scored a draw after 20 rounds. After the Gans fight, Walcott accidentally shot himself in the hand during a New Year's celebration, effectively ending his days as a top prizefighter. While he would return to the ring in 1906 (losing his welterweight crown to William "Honey" Mellody in the process), Walcott never regained his old form, losing most of his subsequent fights.

Walcott squandered a fortune earned in the ring and eventually found employment as a custodian at the old Madison Square Garden.

Nat Fleischer
Nat Fleischer

Nathaniel Stanley Fleischer was a noted United States boxing writer. Fleischer inaugurated, in 1922, the Ring Magazine publication. He led that magazine, as editor in chief, for fifty years till his death in 1972....
 rated him as the greatest welterweight
Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system....
 of all time, and in 2003 he was included in the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.

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