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Saturday, July 30th, 1949

Cincinnati Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Undercard

FW: Percy Bassett 13-0 (6) TKO 3 Felino Sarmiento 11-10-2 (2)
Bassett scored a knockdown and hammered Sarmiento when his corner threw in the towel. Bassett remains #9.

LW: Orlando Zulueta 16-0 (1) UD 8 Millard Morgan 7-3-3 (1)
Zulueta was unimpressive, but managed a clear decision as he improves to #6.

BW: Manuel Armenteros 15-0 (8) MD 8 Guido Ferracin 12-2-2
Armenteros looked very good, though the fight was boring, and won all but one round. One judge saw it as a draw for some reason, but it was a clear win for the bantamweight #3.

MW: Artie Towne 22-1-1 (9) UD 8 Ryan Kuhn 9-9-2 (3)
Towne scored a knockdown and won a wide decision as he improves to #2.

Live

HW: Nino Valdes 19-1 (12) vs Gordon Robertson 6-3-1 (3) II
8 rounds of heavyweight boxing, live from Cincinnati, USA.

Valdes finally gets his rematch against the guy who shockingly knocked him out in the 1st round to hand him his first defeat. Very exciting fight by the looks of it.

Round 1: A furious Valdes comes out swinging and a big cross puts Robertson down! Robertson makes it up at the count of 8. Valdes struggles to find the hole for another punch, but when he does a big hook sends Gordon down again. He is counted out.

Nino Valdes KO 1 Gordon Robertson

That's what i call revenge! Bigtime payback as cuban Nino Valdes settles the score with a spectacular 1st round knockout.

Nino Valdes improves to 20-1 with 13 knockouts and is now ranked #8.

Live main event

WW: George Costner 25-0-1 (18) vs Theron Wells 12-5-6 (3)
10 rounds of welterweight boxing, live from Cincinnati, USA.

The #2 in the strongest division in the boxing world right now takes on Theron Wells and should get a simple win.

Round 1: After some clinching, Costner gets in a couple of quick shots inside. Then a solid uppercut that rocks Wells. 10-9 George Costner

Round 2: Wells lands a bit more, but Costner lands much bigger and stuns Theron a couple of times. 20-18 George Costner

Round 3: Costners fast, crisp punching is doing the work here. 30-27 George Costner

Round 4: Costner is dishing out a beating here, but so far, Wells is taking it and moving forward. 40-36

Round 5: Not too much action as Costner is gaining full control. 50-45 George Costner

Round 6: Costner lands a big uppercut that sees Wells drop to the canvas. Wells makes it up, only to get teed of on for the rest of round. 60-53 George Costner

Round 7: Another dominant round for "Sugar". 70-62 George Costner

Round 8: Costners jab and his combinations are scoring at will, while Wells seems confused and he has no answer to the beating he is taken. 80-71 George Costner

Round 9: After some more dominance, Wells finally gets a big shot in, and he goes in to follow, and is suddenly caught with a short hook that has him landing face first to the canvas. Wells fights and gets up again. Wells is out of it, and Costner lands at will. The fight is rightly stopped.

George Costner TKO 9 Theron Wells

Fantastic perfomance from George Costner who hammered Wells from the get-go.

George Costner improves to 26-0-1 with 19 knockouts, and takes the #1 ranking back from Tommy Bell.