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Originally Posted by Piggy Lid

Sorry if this doesn't mean much to anyone on the other side of the Atlantic but Accavallo's a dead ringer for a young George Formby.

Except for the banjo

[Tommysixfingers]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Great tourney Tom!

Agreed. I like theese short summary type uni's.

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Elky Clark (#15) KO7 Vuyani Nene (#50)

Clark scored another victory for the Scottish camp. A right hook halfway through the seventh round ended proceedings.

Both men stood toe to toe and slugged it out, Clark though had clearly the better of it and by the time Nene was counted he was comfortably clear on the scorecards.

The Scotsman will meet Horacio Accavallo in the next round.

Up next ..............

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Frankie Genaro (USA)(#14) V Walter McGowan (Scotland)(#51)

Madison Square Garden, New York

Genaro (left) was the American and NBA World Flyweight Champion. This light hitting technician fought 131 times over a 14 year period. During his career his victories included those against Pancho Villa, Bud Taylor, Memphis Pal Moore, Bushy Graham, Kid Williams and Frenchy Belanger.

McGowan won British, Commonwealth, European and WBC 'World' titles at Flyweight. He outpointed fellow Euro Fly Salvatore Burruni to win the WBF belt but lost the belt in the same year after being stopped by Chartchai Chionoi.

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Frankie Genaro (#14) UD10 Walter McGowan (#51)

A bit of a stinker!

Genaro moved through to the next round and a bout with Erbito Salavarria after a unanimous but close points decision. The New York man was always doing behind his left jab but will have to pick his game up from now on. He appeared to have hardly broken sweat when the final bell rang.

Next up .........

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Yoko Gushiken (Japan)(#13) V Pone Kingpetch (Thailand)(#52)

Korakuen Stadium, Tokyo

Gushiken (left) fought only 24 times in a career spanning 7 years. He won the WBA Light Flyweight title in only his ninth pro contest, knocking out Juan Antonio Guzman. He made 14 defences until being stopped by Pedro Flores for his only defeat. Gushiken was a big hitter, achieving 15 of his 23 victories by stoppage.

Kingpetch held the Thai, OPBF, WBA and WBC titles at Flyweight. He won his first World title in 1960 when he outpointed Pascual Perez. He defended the title four times before being knocked out by Fighting Harada. Kingpetch regained the title a year later before repeating the trick with Hiroyuki Ebihara. He lost his title to Salvatore Burruni in 1965 and retired a year later.

[CONN CHRIS]

Originally Posted by Tosti

Frankie Genaro (#14) UD10 Walter McGowan (#51)

A bit of a stinker!

Genaro moved through to the next round and a bout with Erbito Salavarria after a unanimous but close points decision. The New York man was always doing behind his left jab but will have to pick his game up from now on. He appeared to have hardly broken sweat when the final bell rang.

Next up .........

Revenge for letting Chionoi fall out of the tourney!

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Yoko Gushiken (#13) UD10 Pone Kingpetch (#52)

Gushiken made hard work of Kingpetch.

The turning point in the bout came in the ninth round, Gushiken landed a heavy left hook to the jaw of Kingpetch sending him sprawling. He beat the count but the damage was done. Gushiken closed the job out in the last, Kingpetch couldn't land a blow.

Subsequent studies of two of the scorecards showed Gushiken to be a point behind going into the penultimate round.

Gushiken moves on to meet Benny Lynch in the next round, should be a war!

Next contest .............

[Tosti]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Revenge for letting Chionoi fall out of the tourney!

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Santos Laciar (Argentina)(#12) V Peter Kane (England)(#53)

Estadio Luna Park, Buenos Aires

Laciar (left) won the South American and WBA Flyweight titles along with the WBC Super Flyweight title during a 15 year 101 fight career. 'Falucho' stopped Peter Mathebula in Soweto to win the WBA title in 1981, he lost it in his first defence to Luis Ibarra before winning it back a year later against Juan Herrera. Wins against men like Prudencio Cardona and Hilario Zapata followed before he moved up to Super Fly.

Kane held both the British and 'World' titles at Flyweight. In 1938 the Liverpool born slugger decked Jackie Jurich 5 times before going on win the World title on points. He immediately relinquished the belt to move up to Flyweight where he won the European title.

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Peter Kane (#53) UD10 Santos Laciar (#12)

Liverpudlian Kane travelled to Buenos Aires and dumped the twelve seed out of the competition.

Kane was on top throughout and made his intentions known by wobbling the Argentinian with a right hook in the first round. He suffered a setback in the fourth stanza when a right cross from Laciar opened a nasty cut on Kane's forhead, it bothered him for the rest of the fight.

In the ninth round Laciar enjoyed his best moment of the fight, Kane was visibly in trouble after shipping a right cross from the home fighter.

Kane though saved the best til last, with two minutes remaining in the fight he decked Laciar after landing a crushing combination. Laciar survived to the bell but the damage was done.

The last round had made all the difference on the cards and proved enough to give Kane a unanimous but close points decision.

In the next round Kane will travel to France to meet Louis Skena.

Next fight .... Saman Sorjaturong V Johnny Hill

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Saman Sorjaturong (Thailand)(#11) V Johnny Hill (Scotland)(#54)

National Arena, Bangkok

Sorjaturong (left) held the IBF and WBC Light Flyweight titles. He failed in his first attempt at World homours when challenging Ricardo Lopez for his Minimumweight title, the Mexican stopped him in two rounds. Two years later he won the Light Flyweight belt, in the 1995 Ring Magazine fight of the year he stopped Humberto Gonzalez in 7 rounds. He made 10 defences before dropping a points decision to Yo Sam Choi. Sorjaturong was a murderous puncher, achieving 35 of his 45 victories through stoppages.

Hill was the British, European and World Flyweight Champ. Hill died when he was only 24 years of age after suffering a broken blood vessel in his lung. The Scotsman outpointed Newsboy Brown in 1928 to become the World Champion and although he suffered a knockout defeat to Emile Pladner for the European title he was still the World Champ when he passed away.

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Saman Sorjaturong (#11) MDPts Johnny Hill (#54)

According to most at ringside Hill was on the wrong side of a home decision. It appeared that the Scotsman had finished the fight on top and done enough to secure a close points win.

The judges saw something different. One gave it as a draw whilst the other two had it for the Thai slugger by two points.

Hill kept up the good tournament record of the Scottish and had no problems dealing with Sorjaturong's much vaunted power.

The Thai fighter will meet Newsboy Brown in the next round.

Up now .............

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We are now into the top ten seeds...


Midget Wolgast (USA)(#10) V Jesus Chong (Mexico)(#55)

Olympia Athletic Club, Philadelphia

Wolgast (below) was an extremely quick individual who utilized nature's gift to earn a version of the Flyweight Championship of the World. He was a talented boxer with ring "savvy" who truly made a living at fighting - over 200 bouts during his career; His boxing skills, fast hands and fast feet made him a very elusive and dangerous adversary in the ring. Nat Fleischer rated him as the 8th all-time greatest Flyweight. Along the way he defeated Izzy Schwartz, Johnny McCoy, Black Bill, Speedy Dado, Little Pancho, Pete Sanstol and Small Montana.

Chong held NABF, WBO and WBF titles at Light Flyweight. Of his 32 victories 28 were by the way of stoppage. He recorded wins over Francisco Montiel, Cuauthemoc Gomez and Jorge Luis Roman.

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Midget Wolgast (#10) UD10 Jesus Chong (#55)

Wolgast produced the best display of 'boxing' in the tournament so far. He shut out Chong on the scorecards, the only blemish being a point deducted for butting, with the Mexican hardly landing a blow in anger.

The American had his man running on empty for over half the fight whilst Wolgast returned to his stool at the end of the contest looking like he could do it again.

Wolgast will face up to Yuri Arbachakov in the next round.

Next up .....

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Myung Woo Yuh (South Korea)(#9) V Johnny Buff (USA)(#56)

Chungmu Gymnasium, Daejon

After winning the OPBF title at Junior Flyweight Yuh (left) defeated Joey Olivo to win the WBA 'World' version. He defended the title 17 times before losing out to Hiroki Ioka, a loss which he avenged for the title a year later. Yuh defeated Rodolfo Blanco, Leo Gamez and Wily Salazar during his reign.

Buff stopped Abe Goldstein to win the American Flyweight title before going onto win the World Bantamweight title. In an 89 fight career he defeated amongst others Charles LeDoux, Pete Herman and Frankie Mason.

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Johnny Buff (#56) SD10 Myung Woo Yuh (#9)

A point deduction for a low blow effectively cost Yuh the fight.

Though in all seriousness Buff appeared to be a comfortable winner in a dull affair. The American dominated much of the action, finding Yuh an easy target for his left jab.

Yuh simply didn't turn up.

Buff will travel to England to meet Terry Allen in the next round.

Next up ...........

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Michael Carbajal (USA)(#8) V Koji Kobayashi (Japan)(#57)

MGM Grand, Las Vegas

Carbajal (left), an olympic boxing silver medallist in 1988, was a tough hard hitting fighter who held various 'World' title belts at Light Flyweight. His victories included those over Muangchai Kittikasem, Humberto Gonzalez and Melchor Cob Castro. He only suffered one career stoppage, a cuts TKO against Jacob Matlata.

Kobayashi was a talented left-handed fighter who had a short career but won the WBC Flyweight Championship of the World during his ring tenure. Koji defeated such men as Frank Cedeno, Jiro Takada, Allan Makitoki, Flash Jagdon, Jackal Maruyama and Rord Mitsuru.

[Infinity]

I'm enjoying this tremendously.....

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Originally Posted by Infinity

I'm enjoying this tremendously.....

Good

So am I