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Coulon loses his title
November 24, 1911
Main Event
BW - Harry Forbes (18/CH) (23-18-7) wins his first ever title with a TKO12 over Johnny Coulon (CH/6) (28-4-2) to win the WBC BW title.
It was a very close fight and cutmen turned out to be the deciding factor. Both fighters were cut. Forbes in the 4th over the left eye and Coulon in the 6th over the left eye. Forbes cut was re-opened once and Coulon's twice. The second time the fight was stopped. It was a back and forth fight so Forbes was in it despite the cut and both eyes swelling.
I had it 105-104 Coulon at the stoppage. There will be no mandatory rematch as it was a justified stoppage.
Elimination Fight
LH - As shocking as the main event was this may have topped it. Charles McCoy (1/1) scored a UD12 over Georges Carpentier (6/9) (20-4) to win the IBF title eliminator and he will move on to fight Joe Butler in the next round.
That McCoy won wasn't the shocking part, but how throughly he dominated the fight. Carpentier never won a round and was down in the 7th and the 10th. It would have been a shutout but McCoy was warned 5 times and penalized twice. So I had it 118-106 as did two of the official judges, the other had it 117-107.
Other Fights
FW - Dan Daly (UR/42) (10-4-1) got a win by DQ5 over Steve Sullivan (UR) (5-1) which gave Sullivan his first loss. Sullivan was winning the fight when he head butted Daly which hurt Daly and the ref ruled it blatant and stopped the fight. Bad call should have been warned instead. I had it 39-37 Sullivan at the stoppage.
LW - Harry Lyons (4/4) (35-17-1) UD10 Young Joseph (63/70) (12-15-2)
HW - Jack Burns (51/38) (19-9-1) KO8 Dan Dwyer (38/51) (29-12-1) ***
HW - Ed Dunkhorst (44/40) (26-17-3) KO4 Charlie Wilson (137/140) (10-13-3) (Dunkhorst 5th straight win)
*** not sure I've seen two fighters just switch places in the rankings like this when they were more than 10 spaces apart!
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