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In round fifteen, Hearns seemed to think he had the decision secured, and Benitez seemed to imagine he needed a knockout to win, so Hearns proceeded to use his jab for three more minutes and Benitez tried to avoid defeat by throwing quick combinations onto Hearns ' face to see if he could find the punch that would finally lay down The Hitman for good.
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Leonard put Benitez down again in the fifteenth round and the referee stopped the fight with six seconds left in round fifteen.
Even though Uehara was fighting in his homeland, all judges agreed and gave Serrano more rounds than they gave Uehara, and Serrano the world title back by a fifteen round unanimous decision.
Following this a large flouring mill was erected, and large brick blocks have taken the place of round log cabin, and instead of the plank road we find the Air Line Division of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, and instead of the hamlet in the woods, we find a beautiful village of fifteen hundred inhabitants, adorned with churches, schools, and fine residences.
Most of the criticism faded after Schmeling's first defense, an impressive fifteen round TKO over Young Stribling, a future hall-of-famer with 239 wins to his credit by 1931.
He finished 1971 with a ten round decision win over Jose Gabino, and went 3-2 in 1972, losing two fifteen round decisions to world title challenger Hedgemon Lewis.
Against Maxim, Moore consistently landed powerful right hands, hurting him several times en route to a fifteen round decision.
He defended the world title with a fifteen round decision over Mando Ramos in Los Angeles, and then, he closed the year by winning a non-title bout in Tokyo, also by decision, in ten.
A return to London resulted in an 11th round knockout victory over Dave Boy Green, after which he defended against Everaldo Acosta Azevedo and Jose Palacios, Azevedo being defeated by decision in fifteen and Palacios by knockout in thirteen.
His championship run ended in 1979, when he traveled to Puerto Rico, where he was defeated on January 13 by hometown boxer Wilfred Benítez via a controversial fifteen round split decision.
The two men would meet three more times, with Tunney successfully defending his regained title in another fifteen round bout and then splitting a pair of no decision battles ( Greb got the nod of two of three local newspapers in the fourth bout while Tunney easily won the fifth, after which, Greb told Tunney that he didn't want to fight him again, as he saw that Tunney was better.
Cornelius Boza-Edwards won the WBC world Jr. Lightweight title from Rafael Limón with a fifteen round decision in 1981 at Stockton, California, this after Limón, a Mexican, had made his infamous You know what happens to British boxers when they face Mexicans comment, in a reference to the fight between Lupe Pintor and Johnny Owen, after which Owen lost his life.
After winning two fights to start 1925, he went up in division to challenge World Middleweight Champion Harry Greb on July 2 but failed to win the Middleweight crown at that time, losing a fifteen round decision to the division champion.
His debut as a Heavyweight on July 22 against former World Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, ended with a fifteen round draw ( tie ).
He went down in weight again, to the light heavyweight division in 1933, when he lost a fifteen round decision to Maxie Rosenbloom for the world title.
The following season saw the Desperados post an AFL record fifteen wins and the team appeared destined to make their first ArenaBowl appearance, but they were shocked by the Columbus Destroyers, who had entered the playoffs with a 7-9 record, in the first round.
The circle of fights between these five gladiators actually began on November 30, 1979, when Leonard beat Benitez by knockout in round fifteen to win the WBC world Welterweight title, on the same night Hagler drew ( tied ) with Vito Antuofermo in his first bid to become the world's Middleweight champion.
* January 24-Eusebio Pedroza retains his WBA world Featherweight title with a fifteen round unanimous decision over Juan Laporte in Atlantic City.
* January 30-Wilfred Benítez retains his WBC world Jr. Middleweight title with a fifteen round unanimous decision over Roberto Durán in Las Vegas.
* November 26-Larry Holmes retains his WBC world Heavyweight title with a fifteen round unanimous decision over Randall " Tex " Cobb, fight after which Howard Cosell quits as a boxing commentator, disgusted by what he described as mismatches.
* December 3-the Carnival of Champions: Wilfredo Gómez retains his WBC world Super Bantamweight championship with a fourteen round knockout over Lupe Pintor and Thomas Hearns becomes the WBC's world Jr. Middleweight champion with a fifteen round majority decision over Wilfred Benítez.
* January 31-In the first world title fight scheduled for twelve rounds instead of fifteen in various decades, Rafael Orono retains his WBC world Jr. Bantamweight championship with a four round knockout over Pedro Romero in Caracas, Venezuela.
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" Hagler, despite a cut to the head and being covered in blood, managed to overpower Hearns in the third round after a glancing right hand followed by two more rights and a left, scoring a decisive knockout.
The first round of Hagler v Hearns is often considered to be among the best three minutes in boxing in middleweight history as the two fighters stood toe-to-toe trading blows.
Rounds two and three couldn't live up to the first, as Hearns broke his hand in the first round, but were still very competitive.
After the Hearns-Shuler fight, Shuler, who had lost by knockout in the first round, showed up at Arum's hotel room to thank him for the opportunity to fight Hearns.
Hearns also got up, and won the ninth round.
Hearns, however, knew he needed the next few rounds to secure another world title, and he outboxed Benitez in round twelve using his jab.
In that bout Barkley first knocked Hearns down in the third round and a discombobulated Hearns appeared to be in no shape to continue but Steele let him go on, stating after the fight that a great champion like Hearns should be given the chance to pull himself together.
Hearns ended Cuevas's 4-year reign by beating him by TKO in the second round.
" In this legendary fight, Hearns suffered his first professional defeat when Leonard stopped him in the 14th round.
He came on strong and put Hearns through the ropes at the end of the round.
Hearns started the round boxing and moving, but after staggering Hearns with an overhand right, Leonard pinned Hearns against the ropes.
Hearns was able to stun Hagler soon after the opening bell, but he subsequently broke his right hand in the first round.
This tactic worked fairly well, but in the third round a smiling Hearns turned his back on Hagler after an exchange.
Hearns quickly made amends by dispatching undefeated rising star James " Black Gold " Shuler with a devastating first round knockout in 1986.
* August 2-Thomas Hearns defeats Jose Pipino Cuevas by a knockout in round 2 to win boxing's WBA world Welterweight title and Yasutsune Uehara knocks out Samuel Serrano in round six to win the WBA's world Jr. Lightweight title in Detroit
In 1981, Main Events became the promoter of the first bout between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns, won by Leonard by a knockout in round 14.
By the end of round five, Leonard had a growing swelling under his left eye, and Hearns had built a considerable lead on the scorecards.
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" But the depiction of thousands of sick and dying people seemed rather gruesome for our light-hearted film, and the thought of our crew taking a 600-year round trip just to bring back a snail darter wasn't all that thrilling ," explained Nimoy.
By the sixth round, Frazier had staggered him in turn and seemed to be gaining control of the bout.
By the fifteenth round, Dauthuille was once again ahead on all scorecards ( 72-68, 74-66, 71-69 ) and seemed to be about to repeat a victory against LaMotta.
According to General Brown said in his report: " Francisco Palafox wanted to leave with his assistant through the lane that seemed shorter to discover the enemy and found himself face to face with a patrol of French Dragoons, and round the last corner, he had to return very quickly rumps '.
First one tree was thus affected, then another, then a third, till, looking round the fields, it seemed as if every fourth or fifth tree had thus been burnt.
The effects were visible as Foreman was staggered by an Ali combination at the start of the fourth round and again several times near the end of the fifth, after Foreman had seemed to dominate that round.
However, in the third round Cotto seemed to successfully swarm Mayweather and land decent flurries to steal himself the round.
Ali managed to survive the round, but from then on Frazier seemed to come back in the next three rounds.
In the sixth round, Ruddock hurt Morrison with a quick combination, but just as it seemed Morrison was in trouble, he countered with a tremendous hook that put Ruddock on the canvas.
Yet he resisted the introduction of steamers, since an infant technology seemed bound to prove expensive and unreliable ; moreover, if navies were to be rebuilt all round as steam driven, Britain would place herself on the same level as her rivals.
Henman seemed slugglish compared to his first round match and threw away serving for the first set.
As Pulp's front-man, part of his trademark image was his glasses, which seemed to " stay magically on his face " no matter his antics on stage, apparently this was achieved with " a huge rubber band round the back ".
In the playoffs they beat divisional rivals South Carolina Shamrocks 2-1 in the first round before falling 4-0 to Charlotte in the conference semi final, but the progress on the field seemed to bode well for the future.
In Minoan Crete, silver and gold bulls ' heads with round openings for the wine ( permitting wine to pour from the bull's mouth ) seemed particularly common, for several have been recovered from the great palaces ( Iraklion Archaeological Museum ).
At the penultime round, the Rally Catalunya, he was leading by almost a minute over Sainz and McRae and seemed to be heading towards his first WRC victory on tarmac, as well as closing in on his fifth title.
By round thirteen, Cooney seemed to believe that he would lose the fight and was just trying to last the fifteen round distance.
may also have felt that he, being better informed about the English and the outside world, should have himself seen the change that now seemed to be just round the corner.
His domestic life was shadowed by the incurable affliction of his only son, and when his brother Charles died in 1853 the world seemed to be darkening round him.
In the previous weeks, however, Mejía had been gaining support while Fernández's numbers had been falling and, as a result, at one point it seemed possible that a second round run-off vote would have to be held between the two top candidates.
He was lost in the magic of the moment, losing all sense of the scenery round about him, just being aware of " downward drifting sounds that seemed isolated from everything else around ".
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