Career
Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Fields as the #19 ranked welterweight of all-time. Fields was elected to the United Savings-Helms Hall of Boxing Fame in 1972, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1979, the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1987, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004. Over the course of Field"s amateur career, he participated in 54 fights, winning 51 of them.
He was 16 years old.
Olympic Results (1924)
Defeated Mossy Doyle (Ireland) PTS
Defeated Olaf Hansen (Denmark) PTS
Defeated Carlos Abarca (Chile) PTS
Defeated Pedro Quartucci (Argentina) PTS
Defeated Joseph Salas (United States of America) PTS
On July 25, 1929 Fields faced Joe Dundee in a match for the welterweight championship. Fields was awarded the fight in the second round after Dundee, having been knocked down twice, delivered a foul blow which left Fields incapable of continuing the fight. Dundee, who had taken a $50,000 advance to participate in the fight, claimed that the foul was unintentional.