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Featuring the American Lightweight Title

FW - Torpedo Billy Murphy (13-15-1) UD10 Tommy Danforth (8-2)

This was Danforth's first fight on a major card, it is unlikely he will be getting another invite anytime soon, his record was exposed as being achieved through fighting club fighters. Cumbersome and slow, he found the old stalwart Murphy far too much to handle.

FW - Mike Cushing (9-0-1) UD10 Tommy Barnes (12-1)

Barnes lost his perfect record in this ten rounder. He managed to cut his opponent over the right eye in the second round, but that was about as much joy as he had.

Cushing was a comfortable winner and fought tidely behind his lead left.

MW - Charles 'Kid' McCoy (12-1-1) KO1 Ed Binney (10-2)

Less than a minute into the fight, Binney was flat on his back. With the first meaningful punch of the contest, McCoy landed a peach of a right hook and ended his evenings work.

McCoy is beginning to make a name for himself.

LW - Joe Gans (20-0) TKO3 (cuts) Mike Daly (12-13-1)

The connections of Joe Gans (bottom left) have been accused of wrapping their fighter in cotton wool, no longer!

Their nineteen year old sensation sliced Daly to pieces, cutting him first over the right eye then in the third round landing a right cross over Daly's left eye leading to a cascade of blood pouring down over the veterans eye.

The referee took one look at the injury and called the fight over.

BW - Danny Dougherty (16-2-1) UD10 Ike Weir (7-7)

The capable Dougherty made it three from three against his Irish opponent.

Weir was never really in with a shout, finding it difficult to cope with Dougherty's superior ting craft.

Dougherty has now built up a nice sequence of wins.

American Lightweight Title

Jimmy Carroll (34-6-2)(Holder) UD12 George Taylor (14-2)

A bout worthy of a title belt.

Pre fight rumours of 'heavy socialising' by Taylor (below right) look to have been wide of the mark, if they were true then it was Carroll's lucky night. Taylor took the ex World Champion to the wire.

Behind at halfway, Taylor took the fight to his man. The crucial moments of the fight were in the eighth stanza, when after a crushing right uppercut Taylor found himself on the deck twice, and the penultimate round when a right cross send the challenger to the floor for the third time in the bout.
In between Taylor gave as good as he got.

However the Champion was a deserved victor on the scorecards, a rematch would certainly draw the crowds.