I am going to list the before and after rankings now on the fight cards listed as (before/after) all rankings will be the WBA rankings unless it's a title fight for another organization. Also I will list my scorecard on the fights I watch in bold.
May 20, 1910
The commissioner of the LBA (Me) decided this would be the first 12 round fight in about 2 years. Top ranked guys have avoided each other for a while (or I just got lazy whatever
). It was good thing for Jack Dempsey NP (5/1) (35-5), because he would have lost after 10 rounds.
Instead he scored a TKO11 over Billy Papke (1/2) (19-3). Papke suffered a bad cut over his right eye in the second round. His corner did a great job on it as it was only re-opened once in the 6th, and didn't factor into the out come of the fight. It was a close fight with Papke dominating the first 5 rounds and then Dempsey coming back in the late rounds.
Dempsey went down early in the 10th and Papke swarmed all over him. Dempsey went down a second time with still a minute to go, but managed to hold on to get out of the round. Papke sensed the kill and went after Dempsey in the 11th, but got careless and took a hard right hand that dropped him for an 8 count. He was nearly defenseless and Dempsey pounded him for another minute before the ref stopped the bout.
I had it
96-92 papke at the stoppage.
On the undercard
FW - Charles Slusher (21/21) (9-5-2) DRAW10 Thomas Palmer (31/31) (17-19-3) (slusher at pre, Palmer at post)
LH - Jim Dunn (15/11) (12-6-1) UD10 Jack Welsh (16/22) (10-5-4) (both at pre)
FW - Eddie Lenny (47/31) (11-7-4) UD10 Chris Tucker (28/32) (12-4) (tucker at pre)
MW - Jack Smith (UR) (7-3-1) SD8 Johnny McGlade (club) (17-22-3) (smith at pre, mcglade at end for this club fight)
BW - Steve Flanagan (UR) (10-1) UD8 Jimmy Brackett (UR) (7-7) (both at pre for this club fight, flanagan moves to main with the win)