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21st June 1893 - Rushcutters Bay, Australia
Featuring the Commonwealth and Pacific Middleweight title and Pacific Welterweight Title.
FW - Eddie Lenny (11-4-2) UD10 Chiddy Ryan (13-1)
LW - Andy Bowen (21-11) UD10 Peter Boland (7-2)
BW - Abe Willis (13-6-2) MD10 Bill Baxter (11-10-1)
MW - Peter Newton (13-0) KO4 Herb Goddard (2-8)
Newton (below left) made it thirteen from thirteen, all by stoppage. He controlled the fight throughout and landed heavy right hooks to the chin of Goddard. A right cross at the end of the fourth round ended the proceedings.
Pacific Welterweight Title
Dick Sandall (12-1) KO10 Mick Dunn (11-7) (Holder)
Dunn is not one to take a negative attitude in the ring.
This time round it cost him his Pacific Welterweight belt. With three rounds left in the fight he was comfortably on top on the scorecards, dominating inside with a cruel right uppercut.
He continued to carry the fight to his Kiwi opponent in the tenth round, as he moved in to punish Sandall on the ropes the challenger threw a hopeful right cross which thudded onto the chin of Dunn, he was out cold before he hit the canvas.
Commonwealth and Pacific Middleweight Title
Billy McCarthy (19-3-1) UD12 Harry 'Dummy' Mace (12-1)
Mace (below right) came into the fight unbeaten and had stopped all his opponents. However he was unable to make the huge step up in class against McCarthy and found himself on the wrong end of a one sided beating.
Mace did well to last out the full twelve rounds, he was on the deck in the fifth, sixth and seventh rounds and appeared to be out on his feet for the last half of the fight.
McCarthy still has legitimate claims for another crack at the World title held by Jack Dempsey, but you do feel that this is the most competitive the Middleweight division has been for sometime.
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