RORY LOPEZ - AMERICAN CHEREKEE INDIAN . I would like to know if anyone may know of this man. It was between 1930 - late 1930s that he came to Nelson, New Zealand. He may have changed his surname to LOPER and was good friends with a man called Reg Fawcett in Nelson. They worked together in a roading gang building roads in Collingwood in the Golden Bay - Nelson. RORY was a champion boxer or wrestler and had many trophy belts he had won. He knew a woman called WINNIE FAWCETT in Nelson and they had 2 daughters. PEGGY and JACQUIE they where never married and were not allowed to be together. He would have been about 37 years old then. Rory may have had 2 sisters here in Nelson or other relatives we don't know of. He may have know a lady by the surname of Emmerson ???? RORY died alone at the age of about 72 years in a house fire in Wellington, New Zealand. In 1974 we think. He was my Grandfather I never knew and my mums Dad she never really knew. If anyone may know of him and can lead some light on his past we would love to have the opportunity to know a little more about him. With the kindest regards Janine
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I never heard of him but would like to try and help you find something. A site like www.boxrec.com which lists boxers and all their opponents might help although I did not see his name on a search. If you could list any semi-popular fighter of that era that you are sure he fought I may be able to find his name at least as an opponent. Perhaps you can search different variations of his name and come up with a possible alias as well. I hope your search leads you to something if it was wrestling it wouldn't be on the site listed but there are plenty of wrestling sites that will do the same thing boxrec does for boxing.
