Some also cited the apparent discrepancy between how Steele responded in this bout and his actions two years before this match in the bout between Thomas Hearns and Iran Barkley.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

On 6 January 1681, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle ( and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica ) engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize.

Some of the first films of this new genre were Godard's Breathless ( À bout de souffle, 1960 ), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Rivette's Paris Belongs to Us ( Paris nous appartient, 1958-distributed in 1961 ), starring Jean-Claude Brialy and Truffaut's The 400 Blows ( Les Quatre Cent Coups, 1959 ) starring Jean-Pierre Léaud.

Cantor suffered his first known bout of depression in 1884.

On the first day of the tournament, a bout of individual jousting, a mysterious masked knight, identifying himself only as " Desdichado " ( which is described in the book as Spanish for the " Disinherited One ", though actually meaning " Unfortunate "), makes his appearance and manages to defeat some of the best Norman lances, including Bois-Guilbert, Maurice de Bracy, a leader of a group of " Free Companions " ( mercenary knights ), and the baron Reginald Front-de-Boeuf.

Most notably, Fujiwara was the first non-Thai to win an official Thai boxing title, when he defeated his Thai opponent in 1978 at Rajadamnern Stadium winning the lightweight championship bout.

Carlisle never actually played with the band, owing to her being sidelined by a bout of mononucleosis for an extended period, and she was replaced by her friend Donna Rhia, real name: Becky Barton, who played three gigs and recorded their first single.

This was Johnson's first bout since winning the heavyweight title from Tommy Burns.

With his first professional bout at age 14, he was welterweight champion of France and of Europe in 1911, middleweight champion of Europe in 1912, and light heavyweight champion of Europe in 1913.

" Real life " affected Mussorgsky painfully in 1865, when his mother died ; it was at this point that the composer had his first serious bout of either alcoholism or dipsomania.

In the playoffs, after losing the first two games of the conference quarterfinal series against the Montreal Canadiens, Laviolette lifted goalkeeper Martin Gerber-who had been struggling to regain his form after playing through a bout of intestinal flu-in favor of rookie Cam Ward.

Many of boxing's biggest fights were held at Madison Square Garden, including the Roberto Durán-Ken Buchanan affair, and the first Joe Frazier – Muhammad Ali bout.

" The Explosive Thin Man " suffered an unavenged first round TKO loss in his 1968 professional debut, but then won 36 of his next 38 bouts, which then led him to a world Featherweight championship bout against experienced WBA champion Ernesto Marcel of Panama in Panama.

The fight was beset with a number of controversies and odd happenings, the first coming before the bout started, when a man with a weapon tried to gain access to Arguello's dressing room.

The controversy proved to be so strong that despite the fact that Pryor was not tested for any substance abuse before or after the fight, a rematch was ordered and took place just 10 months after the first bout, and Pryor was tested before the second fight to prevent any other foul play.

In his next bout, he handed Alberto de las Mercedes Cortes ( 44-0 ) his first career loss by scoring a third round knockout.

A large gash appeared over the right eye of Chávez within the first minute of the first round, leading many to assume what Chávez later confirmed — that the cut occurred earlier in training and was re-opened in the bout.

Women's boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games at a demonstration bout in 1904.

The first sanctioned bout between women was in November 1998 at Streatham in London, between Jane Couch and Simona Lukic.

Durán was the first challenger to last the distance with Hagler in a world-championship bout.

In December 1908, Burns became the first fighter to agree to a heavyweight championship bout with an African American boxer, Jack Johnson, to whom he lost his title in a match held in Sydney.

His first professional bout was held on February 6, 1963.

The original sanctioning body of professional boxing, the World Boxing Association can be traced back to the original National Boxing Association, organized in 1921 ; the first bout recognized by the organization being the Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier Heavyweight Championship bout in New Jersey, USA.

While many hoped for an immediate rematch, Taylor moved up in weight in his next bout and the fighters did not meet again until 1994 when Chávez dominated and then knocked out a faded Taylor in eight rounds.

A judge agreed, but rather than face Ruiz in a bout that was seen as commercially unattractive, Lewis instead fought Michael Grant, considered to be a very worthy contender at the time having knocked out a series of recognized ' name ' opponents on HBO.

Trained by his elder brother Dick, who himself was a successful middleweight, Randolph knocked out Gordon Griffiths in his first bout.

The bout that helped put him in the media spotlight occurred on June 25, when Louis knocked out a former World Heavyweight Champion, the 6 ' 6 ", 265-pound Primo Carnera, in six rounds.

His next fight came three months later against Frankie Duarte, whom he had knocked out in a 1977 bout.

It was the first occasion Mosley had ever been knocked down once ( let alone twice ) in a bout.

Backus resumed his boxing career in 1966, but probably never in his wildest dreams could he have envisioned what happened next: in his comeback bout, he knocked out Tod Purtell in the first round, and that marked his embarkment on a seven fight winning streak that included avenging an earlier loss to Dick French.

There, he knocked out George McInnis, but hurt his hands during the bout and was forced to withdraw from the tournament.

In her first bout on February 14, 1997, she knocked out Angelica Villain in 54 seconds of the first round and earning her the nickname " The Knockout.

The press laughed at the match-up and predicted St. John would be knocked out early in the bout.

During the bout Mayorga suffered a broken finger and was later knocked out by Cotto.

But in 1978, Olivares found what would be the beginning of his last hurrah in his 93rd bout, as he knocked out the future 2 time world Lightweight champion José Luis Ramírez in two rounds at Ciudad Obregón, and he followed that win with wins over Shig Fukuyama and Isaac Vega.

Records remain unclear whether he received payment for a bout in which he knocked out Herbert Slade in two rounds.

After that bout he knocked out Alexei Varakin in the second round of a contest in Soelden, Austria, in December 2004.

New York State boxing authorities were criticized for giving Paret clearance to fight just several months after he was knocked out by Gene Fullmer in his second to last bout.

During the bout, Filipović knocked down Al-Turk with punches within the first round, then allowed him to stand.

His next fight was an exciting non-title bout on ESPN in the middleweight division against Paul Whitaker of New Orleans, who was knocked down and brutally battered by Hilton before being KO'd in the fourth round.

An Associated Press article in the September 9, 1932 Sports section of the New York Times describes the end of the return bout as follows :" Two seconds before the fight ended Schaaf was knocked flat on his face, completely knocked out.

* April 16-In a highly anticipated bout, Sugar Ray Robinson retains his world Middleweight title with a third round knockout of former world champion Rocky Graziano, who had knocked Robinson down seconds before losing the fight, Chicago.

Conn led the bout into the final round, but fought for the knockout and was knocked out himself.

Patrick would referee another rematch for the vacant belt, taking over for Charles Robinson ( who had been knocked out during the bout ).

heavier than Langford, and though he knocked down Langford in the sixth round, many spectators felt Langford had won the bout.

The only fighter of note he did beat in that period was future Colored Champion Big Bill Tate, whom he knocked out in the second round of a scheduled 10-round bout.