BOXING.
WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP. DEMPSEY DEFEATS GIBBONS. Press Association—Electric Telegrapli—Copyrigl, (Received Thursday, 12.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, Wednesday. Dempsey defeated Gibbous for the world’s heavyweight championship, on the referee’s decision. The fight lasted fifteen rounds. — Dempsey’s weight was 188 ponno3 and Gibbons 175|1b. In round one Dempsey led viciously, landing heavy body blows, and drew blood from Gibbons’ mouth with a left hook. Gibbons retreated and landed twice on Dempsey’s jaw, but the champion knocked the challenger about easily. In round two Gibbons landed a hard right to the body, and then opened Dempsey’s eye. Dempsey jarred his opponent by a left to the jaw. In round three Gibbons protested against Dempsey mauling him in the clinches. Dempsey pounded his body savagely. Both exchanged head blows. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. In round nine Gibbons was distinctly out-boxing the champion. ' In rounds ten and eleven Dempsey was out-man-oeuvred. Jin rounds seven and eleven Gibbons was struck below the belt, the crowd becoming furious.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14955, 5 July 1923, Page 5
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161BOXING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14955, 5 July 1923, Page 5
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