BOXING
SIKI’S LATEST ENTERPRISE. PARIS, June 18. Siki states he is disgusted with boxing and everything connected with it, and has decided to abandon it and take up lion training. AMERICAN BOUTS. DEFEATED MAN’S PLUCKY EFFORT. NEW YORK, June 18. (Received June 19, 8.5 pun.) Pancho Villa knocked out Jimmy Wilde in the seventh round of a scheduled 15 rounds bout, thus gaining the world’s flyweight championship, after a fast fight, in which Villa scored by superior speed in attack,. Wilde distinguished himself in defeat by sheer grit, stepping forth for the third round with his nose spouting blood. Both his eyes were badly gashed, and closing, so that he was unable to see his adversary. Nevertheless, against his manager’s entreaties, Wilde re-entered the ring for the seventh round with his mind made up to go down fighting. Then a left to his ear started him puffing under Villa’s pile-driving attack, culminating in a right hook to the jaw which floored wilde, face downwards. Wilde’s seconds then carried him out, thus dispensing with the necessity for a count. At Mexico City, Firpo knocked out Jim Hibbard, an American, in the second of 20 rounds.
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Southland Times, Issue 18972, 20 June 1923, Page 3
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