Heavyweight contender James "The Boilermaker" Jeffries took care of business in front of his home crowd in San Fransisco as he improved his perfect record to 19-0 with all wins coming by KO. The athletically gifted Jeffries was to fight his first ever 10-rounder as a tune-up for the upcoming tournament, but instead he blew journeyman Robby Allen out of the arena in only 5 rounds.

From the beginning of round one till the end of the fight, it was clear that this fight had only two possible outcomes. Most likely it would be a KO for James Jeffries, but the possibility that he was going for the experience of fighting 10 rounds, before he needs to exactly that in his quarterfinal bout against Gus Ruhlin, did surface the mind. It never looked like anything but a blowout as Robby Allen, who went into the fight with an unimpressive 16-11 record, had little answer to the fast and crisp punching of the gifted 24 year old. In the 5th the referee decided to spare the bloodied and bewildered opponent of more punishment. Jeffries was very aggresive and never stopped throwing punches, and even though he did only connect at a rate of 39,9% he still landed four times as many punches than Allen per round. It should be very exciting in March as "The Boilermaker" is fighting Gus Ruhlin, who holds an undefeated record in 21 fights of 20-0-1 with 10 KOs, on a 1/4 finals doubleheader, with the other fight being between irish hard-hitter Tom Sharkey and colombian ditto Ricardo Torres.

On the undercard of tonights main-event canadian Sandy Ferguson improved his record to 10-1-1 with 2 KOs as he scored a 6th round TKO against phillipine Nestor Ellema who dropped to 21-4 with 17 KOs. We also saw an exciting battle of undefeateds that saw Fred Russell improve to 7-0 with 3 KOs as he finished Denver Ed Martin in three rounds, which drops him to 4-1 with 2 KOs. The opener saw Jim Jeffords have an easy time improving his record to 8-0 with 4 KOs as he needed two rounds to get the knockout against Meqran Matari who drops to 13-20-3 with 4 KOs.

Soon, we will be publishing a presentation of the 8 fighters, who have been given a shot at being the first ever heavyweight champion of the world. Three of these fighters will be in action in January next year as Jack Johnson, Mexican Pete Everett and Gus Ruhlin have tune-ups on another exciting card.