Barbados Joe Walcott have a clear advantage in all but the seventh round. Many in the crowd were shocked with the decision, and Walcott himself was immediately angered at referee Sullivan who made the call. The match was disregarded as a title bout when it was discovered, not surprisingly, that referee Sullivan had bet on Dixie Kid to win the match. Walcott fought the exceptional black boxer Sam Langford in a non-title fight before a modest crowd of 1200 in Manchester, New Hampshire on September 5, 1904, with the fight ending in a fifteen-round draw. Langford had the better of the bout for
Theo Walcott honest, good defenders would catch him offside every time." Walcott started England's friendly victories against Mexico and Japan in May 2010. However, on 1 June 2010, it was announced that Walcott had been left out of England's 23-man World Cup squad by Fabio Capello. On 4 July, a few days after England's exit from the World Cup, Lionel Messi said that he was shocked by Walcott's exclusion as he believed that Walcott could have made the difference against Germany and Algeria. In January 2011, Capello admitted that he had made a mistake in not selecting Walcott for the 2010 World