WILDE'S VIEW OF THINGS.

NZ Truth, Issue 749, 25 October 1919, Page 8

WILDE'S VIEW OF THINGS.

Jimmy Wilde viewed the contest m a different light to that of Moore, and said: "I confess that anything might ■have happened m the 16th round — if that was the one m which I received this blow over the nose," he said. "I have no definite idea m which round it occurred, but I know "It virtually stunned me. Personally I am quite certain that it resulted from Moore's head coming into contact with the bridge of my nose — accidentally, of course — and a very forcible collision it was. I appealed at once, and he Bald he was sorry. For the remainder of the round I hardly knew what I was doing, and m the next round I 'was not much better.

"At every other stage of the fight I felt absolutely confident, and as I was boxing after recovering from my dazed condition he would never have beaten me if he had kept at it for a month. Of that I am certain.

"Moore is a great, strong, game fighter, but I do not like his way of hitting with the open glove, and the inside of the wrist. He is rather inclined to hit anyhow and anywhere.

"I am quite ready to box him again Jf he will find his own backing 1 , but not if he is going: to find the backing and get the loser's end of the purse m the event of my beating him again."