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December 20, 1912
Title Fight
BW - (WBC) George Dixon (CH) (37-11-2) scored a late knockdown and pulled out a DRAW15 against Owen Moran (9/9) (34-8-7) for his third defense of the WBC BW title. It was a close fight the whole way with no cuts. Dixon dropped Moran in the 12th. The judges scores were 143-143/144-142/143-143.
Title Tourney
LW - (WBC) Battling Nelson (18/8) (30-17-1) scored a TKO7 over Arthur Chambers (3/10) (25-6-1) to move onto the second round of the WBC LW title tourney. Nelson will face Patsy Sweeney in February. Chambers was cut over the right eye in the 3rd and it was reopened every round afterwards until the doc finally stopped it in the 7th. I had it 58-56 Nelson at the stoppage.
Other fights
HW - James Corbett (5/4) (37-11-3) UD10 Jimmy Elliot (34/37) (31-11-4) 99-92
FW - Billy Ryan (92/78) (16-11-1) MD10 Eugene Criqui (58/80) (14-2) (Criqui at pre, he will have a long road back to the top 10 with two straight losses)
MW - Bob Moha (26/21) (20-6-6) UD10 Tom Henry (99/100) (9-12-5) 98-94
LW - Danny Duane (45/41) (20-14-5) SD10 Art Simms (86/93) (14-4-1) (simms at pre)
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