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June 22, 1906

Young Griffo (20-4-3) retained his LBA Featherweight Title by virtue of a DRAW15 against #6 Tommy Sullivan (7-8-2).

Griffo piled up a big round lead with slim round wins (by 1 or 2 points) in 5 of the first 8 rounds, and good rounds in 2 others. By most score cards he held a 7-1 round lead after 8 rounds. Then Sullivan took over winning rounds 9-14. I had it even going into the last round.

Sullivan started slow in the 15th with Griffo scoring the first 8 points. Sullivan battled back to tie the points at 10, then Griffo landed a 2 pointer with 10 seconds left to take the round. That's right 6 of the 8 rounds he won by 2 points or less, talk about barely doing enough.

I had it 143-142 Griffo. Dan Cuoco rindside had it 143-143 with round 1 even. The official judges had it 142-142/142-142/143-141 Griffo.

On the undercard
HW - Bob Armstrong 19-7-2) UD10 Charley Stevenson (3-4) (Stevenson stepped up to HW for the loss)
FW - Clarence Forbes (8-5) SD10 Martin Flaherty (2-5-2)
FW - Kid Broad (6-1) UD8 Alvin Rose (TC) (1-3) (Broad fought pre-prime in this club fight)
MW - Arthur Cripps (5-1) TKO2 Steve Bacon (TC) (0-2) (Cripps fought pre-prime in this club fight)
HW - Joe Lannon (10-13) MD10 Joe Hess (1-18) (club fight)


This concludes the title fights for June ... see you in a day or two with July's title fights