Finnish boxer Pekka Kokkonen training. No date is available, but this is either in late 1950s or 1960s.
Kokkonen fought his first professional boxing match in 1957. A decade later, he fought for the European champion’s title in 1967, loosing the 15 round match by points to Piero Del Papaa of Italy.
Filming practice sessions was an expensive endeavour back then, so it is likely that the footage is actually from the mid 1960s, around the height of Kokkonen’s career.
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