Billy Backus Autographs
Billy Backus, (born March 5, 1943, in Canastota, New York) is a former World Welterweight Champion professional boxer. In the summer of 2006 Backus retired from his correctional facility job and moved to South Carolina.
Backus, who is the nephew of boxing legend and former world champion Carmen Basilio, started his career by winning only 7 of his first 19 bouts. In 1964, things looked promising when he won four bouts in a row, but then he suffered a three fight losing streak. At this point of his career, he had a record of 8 wins, 7 losses and 3 draws and he retired from boxing. To make things worse, he had lost his last fight, against Rudy Richardson, on his twenty-second birthday.
Backus resumed his boxing career in 1966, but probably never in his wildest dreams could he have envisioned what happened next: in his comeback bout, he knocked out Tod Purtell in the first round, and that marked his embarcation on a seven-fight winning streak that included avenging an earlier loss to Dick French. That streak was broken by a defeat at the hands of Percy Pugh in New Orleans, but soon he started on another winning streak, eight in a row, including two over Pugh. Then, Pugh broke his winning streak once again, beating him in 15 rounds, once again at New Orleans. After splitting two fights with Jerry Pellegrini and drawing in four rounds with Ricky Ortiz, Backus embarked on another winning streak, including an eight-round knockout over Ortiz in a rematch.
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Current items with a signature of Billy Backus
These are the most current items with a signature of Billy Backus that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | BILLY BACKUS - WORLD CHAMPION BOXER - AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO + LETTER | $65.20 |  |
 | Billy Backus Autographed 8x10 Photo #2 COA | $14.99 | |
 | Billy Backus Autographed 8x10 Photo #3 COA | $14.99 | |
Traded items with a signature of Billy Backus
The most expensive item with a signature of Billy Backus (JSA Billy Backus Autograph Signed 82/100 Boxing Hall Of Fame Paperweight ZSW 002) was sold in October 2016 for $199.97 while the cheapest item (Billy Backus WBC WBA CHAMPION Hand Signed 8x10 COA) found a new owner for $0.01 in September 2009. The month with the most items sold (3) was September 2010 with an average selling price of $3.04 for an autographed item of Billy Backus. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2016 with $199.97 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.01 was September 2009. In average, an autographed item from Billy Backus is worth $4.84.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Billy Backus were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | 12/8/1972 PROGRAM-HEDGEMON LEWIS VS BILLY BACKUS-SIGNED-LEWIS+BACKUS+BASILIO | $25.00 |  |
| Autographed Pete Ranzany-Tony Weeks-Billy Backus-John H. Stracey-Hilario Zapata | $0.99 | |
| Billy Backus - Classic Welterweight Champion - Autographed 8x10 Photograph | $16.00 | |
| Billy Backus Autographed 8x10 Photo Hall of Fame Welterweight Boxing Champion | $9.99 | |
| Billy Backus Autographed Boxing 8x10 Signed Photo (WBA World Champion) | $5.99 | |
| BILLY BACKUS AUTOGRAPHED BOXING HOF PAPERWEIGHT VERY RARE 98/100 JSA | $50.00 | |
| BILLY BACKUS BOXING CHAMP SIGNED AUTOGRAPH 8.5x11 PHOTO PICTURE COA HOF | $12.99 | |
| Billy Backus former World Welterweight Champion Hand Signed 8.5 x 11 Photo | $1.75 | |
| Billy Backus Signed/ Autographed Vintage Hutch Boxing Glove...see proof.. | $22.50 | |
| BILLY BACKUS WELTERWEIGHT CHAMP 1970 1971 8 X 10 AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOGRAPH | $9.99 | |
| Billy Backus, former world boxing champion Hand Signed Index Card | $4.25 | |
| James Bonecrusher Smith Billy Backus Kelvin Seabrooks signed framed picture | $9.99 | |
| JSA Billy Backus Autograph Signed 82/100 Boxing Hall Of Fame Paperweight ZSW 002 | $199.97 | |
| Vintage Billy Backus Signed Press Photo with Referee 1971 | $14.99 | |
| Welterweight Boxing Champion BILLY BACKUS Autographed Card from 1990s | $9.95 | |
