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Robert Villemain Will Fight Joe BIqckwood in Milwaukee MilwaukeeMILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE Wis May 12 UP Promoter Phil Valley said today that former European welterweight champion Robert Villemain will fight a 10 rounder with hard punching Joe Blackwood of Patterson N J at the Milwaukee Auditorium May 19 19Villemain Villemain won the European welterweight crown in 1947 He gave it up in 1948 when he could not longer make the weight Ville ¬ main who lives in Paris now fights as a middleweight middleweightLast Last February the French boxer upset Danny Nardico a highranking light heavy ¬ weight in a 10round match in New York YorkBlackwood Blackwood has had more than 60 bouts in eight years winning 30 of them by knockouts
