Ray Famechon

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Data
Birth Name	Raymond Famechon
Weight class	Featherweight
nationality	Frenchman
birthday	November 8, 1924
place of birth	Sous-le-Bois- Maubeuge
Date of death	January 21, 1978
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.64 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	116
Victories	100
Knockout victories	27
Defeats	13
draw	3
Profile in the BoxRec database

December 18, 1951: Ray Famechon knocked Padilla down

Ray Famechon (born November 8, 1924 in Sous-le-Bois-Maubeuge , France , † January 21, 1978 in Paris ) was a French boxer . He was European champion among professional boxers in the featherweight division.

Career

Amateur career

Ray Famechon was quite successful as an amateur boxer even in his short time. He became French flyweight champion in 1942. In total, he fought 125 fights as an amateur and achieved 123 victories (!).

Profile career

On November 12, 1944 Ray Famechon began his professional career in Paris with a technical knockout victory in the 3rd round over his compatriot Marcel Marechal. In the first 18 fights of his career, all of which took place in France , he remained the winner. At his first start abroad on February 6, 1946 in Brussels, he then suffered his first defeat against the Belgian lightweight champion Josef Preys when he lost to this boxer after ten rounds on points. Before that, however, he had already become French featherweight champion on September 29, 1945 in Paris by a points win after twelve rounds over Paul Dogniaux and had this title on January 31, 1946 in Rouen against Joseph Parisis by a techn. KO win in the 9th round successfully defended for the first time.

In 1945 and 1946 he successfully defended his French featherweight championship against Roger Tison and Louis Orsini. On March 29, 1947, he won the revenge against Josef Preys in Brussels and on April 28, 1947 he defeated the Englishman Ronnie Clayton (boxer) on points in London , thus gaining the right to challenge the English European champion Al Philipps . The European Championship fight Famechon against Philipps took place on April 27, 1947 in London and ended with the disqualification of Ray Famechon, because he had hit Al Philipps in the 8th round with a head butt and he could no longer box. This unintentional headbutt was bad luck for Ray Famechon as he was clearly on the road to victory in this fight. He had sent Al Philipps to the ground five times in the 7th round.

On January 26, 1948, Ray Famechon defeated the strong Belgian Kid Dussart on points in the Palais des Sports in Paris and was won on March 22, 1948 in Nottingham by a points victory after 15 rounds over Ronne Clayton, who meanwhile Al Philipps the European featherweight title had decreased, new European featherweight champion.

He successfully defended this title on November 20, 1948 in Charleroi by winning points over Belgian Jean Machterlinck and on November 18, 1949 in Manchester by winning points after 15 rounds over Ronnie Clayton. On March 17, 1950 Ray Famechon got the great chance in Madison Square Garden in New York City against the reigning featherweight world champion Willie Pep to fight for his title. Ray Famechon had no chance of winning this fight and lost on points by unanimous decision. All three judges saw him only in three rounds of the 15 rounds at an advantage. Willie Pep had won the other rounds.

On July 29, 1950, Ray Famechon won another title defense in Madrid over the Spaniard Luis de Santiago in the 3rd round by knockout and on June 28, 1951 defeated his Italian challenger Alvaro Cerasani in the Milan Vigorelli Velodrome . KO in the 13th round. Between these fights Ray Famechon had fought a few fights in the USA and Canada and suffered a curious defeat on March 6, 1951 when he fought in Cincinnati against Eddie Burgin, who knocked him down once in the first and second round. After the second knockdown, the referee asked Ray Famechon if he wanted to give up and he replied "no, no quit", which the referee misunderstood and stopped the fight.

In Europe , Ray Famechon remained number one in featherweight. He fought on February 9, 1952 in Brussels against the new Belgian star Jean Sneyers in a non-title fight and defended his European title on April 21, 1952 in Nottingham by winning points over Ronnie Clayton and on October 9, 1952 in Milan by a knockout - Successful win in the 4th round over the Italian Nello Bardadero. On January 17, 1953, he then defeated Jean Sneyers in Brussels on points.

On October 17, 1953, the third fight between Famechon and Sneyers broke out in Brussels. This time it was about the European title. In a balanced encounter, the judges saw Sneyers just ahead, who became the new European champion . Ray Famechon did not give up and got on September 20, 1954 in Paris through a techn. Knockout victory in the 3rd round over Jean Sneyers the European title back. Sneyers was down several times in the 2nd round and gave up the fight that had become hopeless for him in the course of the third round. In an effort to get another world championship fight, Ray Famechon boxed on October 25, 1954 in Paris against ex-world champion Sandy Saddler from the USA. After several downfalls, the corner of Ray Famechon gave up the fight in the break from the 5th to the 6th round.

But Ray Famechon successfully defended the European Championship twice. On January 29, 1955 in Milan he beat the Italian Sergio Milan after 15 rounds on points and won on May 27, 1955 in Dublin against the Irish Billy Kelly with the same result. On November 3, 1955, he finally lost his European Championship title in Paris. The Spaniard Fred Galiana defeated him in the 6th round by techn. KO (job by Ray Famechon).

Ray Famechon fought the last fight of his long career on October 2, 1956 in London. He had to accept a bitter knockout defeat from the Englishman Bobby Neill in the 5th round.

After the boxing career

Although Ray Famechon had good stock exchanges in his boxing career, he got some of it in the end. He put what he had in a laundry he ran in the Paris district of Montmartre . At the beginning of the 1960s he had to file for bankruptcy and then worked as a laborer. He died on January 29, 1978. When he was buried, nobody knew who was there on his last course. He, who had delighted the French boxing audience for over ten years, was forgotten.

literature

• Box Sport trade journal from 1950 to 1956,

Web links

• Ray Famechon in the BoxRec database