40 Facts About Bob Olin

Robert Lous Olin was an American boxer who became the World Light Heavyweight champion on November 16,1934, against Maxie Rosenbloom at Madison Square Garden.

Bob Olin was trained by Ray Arcel and managed by Harold Scadron.

Bob Olin was born on July 4,1908, to a Jewish family in New York's crowded Lower East Side, and raised in Brooklyn.

Early in his boxing career, Bob Olin continued to broker the sale of bonds as a side line.

Bob Olin won all 35 of his amateur fights, as well as the New York Metropolitan Amateur Athletic Union title, and turned professional in 1929.

On June 3,1930, Bob Olin met Ralph Ficucello, a former 1929 New York Golden Gloves Heavyweight Champion, at Queensboro Stadium in Queens, New York.

On October 22,1930, Bob Olin bested Willard Dix in a hard-fought ten round points decision at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Bob Olin floored Dix for a nine count in the fourth and ninth rounds.

Bob Olin took a ten-round decision against Joe Banovic near the end of 1930 at Madison Square Garden.

On July 27,1931, Bob Olin defeated Al Gainer, a determined World Light Heavyweight Championship contender, in a ten-round bout at White City Stadium in New Haven, Connecticut.

Gainer led in the early rounds, but Bob Olin came through in the ninth and tenth to win the referee's decision.

On December 18,1931, Bob Olin achieved a fourth-round knockout of Tait Littman in the opening round of the National Boxing Association World Light Heavyweight Tournament at Chicago Stadium.

Bob Olin's telling blow was a left hook delivered with Littman against the ropes.

On February 15,1932, at New York's St Nicholas Arena Bob Olin broke his right hand placing three smashing rights to the jaw of Arthur Hittick in the first, and he lost the bout as a result.

Regardless, Bob Olin won in two of their four meetings and drew one.

Bob Olin took a six-round points decision on October 9,1933, at Madison Square Garden against Black boxer Ed "Unknown" Winston.

On November 17,1933, Bob Olin just managed to win the decision in a hard-fought eight round bout with Charley Massera at Madison Square Garden.

Bob Olin lost to Lou Brouillard, former National Boxing Association World Welterweight Champion, on January 19,1934, in a ten-round split decision in New York's Madison Square Garden.

Brouillard lost the second and fourth rounds from low blow fouls, but in the remaining rounds, he took the offensive and Bob Olin had to hold or back away at times to remain in the fight.

Late in the eighth, Bob Olin scored with a few smashes to the head of Brouillard that only made Brouillard's fight harder in the following round.

Bob Olin charged to the middle of the ring, and landed a left hook to the chin of Godwin only five seconds into the bout, immediately dropping him for a no count.

The win helped Bob Olin recover his confidence from his losses to Brouillard.

Bob Olin answered the third round's opening bell, but went down for the count with another harsh round of body blows from Olin.

Bob Olin lost his title to John Henry Lewis on October 31,1935, in a fifteen-round unanimous decision at the Arena in St Louis.

Bob Olin suffered severely at the hands of McCoy, with a barrage of blows to the body and head.

Bob Olin performed well in the opening rounds, but by the final two, he was reeling about the ring, and nearly out on his feet from the brutal attack of McCoy.

In one of his better late career matches as a fringe Heavyweight contender on April 2,1936, Bob Olin lost to Tommy Farr at Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, England in a fifteen-round points decision.

On January 15,1937, Bob Olin lost to black boxer Tiger Fox, Spokane native, in a second-round TKO at the Armory in Spokane, Washington.

Bob Olin took vicious blows to his head in the two round bout, and received a deep gash under his right eye, later requiring six stitches to close.

Bob Olin was on the mat for a count of nine from a right to the body in the fourth.

Bob Olin received only $3,000 for his efforts, but was compensated an additional $1,800 by Lewis, who had promised him the rematch after their previous title fight.

Bob Olin won a decisive victory over Patsy Perroni on September 13,1937, in a third-round technical knockout at the Convention Hall in Toldedo, Ohio.

On September 28,1937, Bob Olin lost a sixth-round TKO to Leroy Haynes at Convention Hall in Philadelphia due to a cut eye which was bleeding.

In frustration with the ruling to end the hard-fought bout, and perhaps sensing the end of his boxing career from his recent losses, in an atypical breach of boxing etiquette Bob Olin struggled with the referee to change the ruling.

Bob Olin's handlers were required to step in and separate the two men.

Bob Olin effectively blocked the blows of Olin, who was beginning to show wear from several recent losses.

The Associated Press gave Risko seven of the ten rounds with Bob Olin taking the sixth and seventh, and the fourth remaining even.

Bob Olin opened up his own restaurant in 1946 at 128 West 58th Street in New York but had to close it and another restaurant for lack of business.

Bob Olin gained far greater success and a bit of local fame when he moved his restaurant to Central Park West and 61st Street and renamed it "Bob Olin's on the Park".

Bob Olin was married once and divorced, but left no children.