Three Of Boxing’s Most Unusual Endings!

On January 13, 1995 the 12-rounder for the vacant NABF gentle heavyweight title between former IBF champion Prince Charles Williams, 36-6-2, of Mansfield, OH, and Merqui ‘El Corombo’ Sosa, 24-4-1, of San Pedro, DR and Brooklyn, NY, in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey, was declared a technical draw after seven rounds when ring doctor Frank Doggett, determined they’d every taken an excessive amount of punishment for them safely to proceed. Williams was up on all scorecards by 69-64 twice and 69-63.

On June 30, 1995, of their rematch on the Conference Heart in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sosa scored a tenth spherical knockout over Williams. Williams would struggle as soon as extra, scoring a knockout, and retire. Two fights later, Sosa can be stopped by Roy Jones, Jr. in two rounds at Madison Sq. Backyard, New York, in a non-title struggle.

On September 28, 1959, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, welterweight Eddie Woods, 7-0-1, and Brooklyn, New York, Tremendous Welterweight Al Milone, 12-11, had been too severely reduce to proceed their struggle after 5 rounds.

The unique resolution was a stoppage loss for each. It was later modified to a no-contest.

There was a double knockout within the (USA model) world light-weight title struggle between champion Advert ‘Michigan Wildcat’ Wolgast, 66-8-10, and Mexican Joe Rivers, 15-2-3, in Los Angeles on July 4, 1912. Each had been knocked down concurrently within the thirteenth spherical, and with neither trying prone to beat the rely, the referee picked up the champion and, holding him below the arm, continued counting out Rivers.

Wolgast then went on to have three non-title attracts, then misplaced by DQ at 2:36 of the sixteenth spherical to Willie Richie, 22-7-12, of a scheduled twenty rounds.

In what may very well be thought of probably the most peculiar ending ever to a championship struggle was when challenger George Bernard, 27-12-14, of Paris, France, fell asleep in his nook in the course of the interval between the sixth and seventh rounds, shedding to middleweight champion Billy “The Illinois Thunderbolt” Papke, 38-11-8.

Bernard couldn’t be woken in time for the seventh spherical, and the ending was recorded as a retirement. He claimed he had been drugged and was most likely proper.

In Papke’s subsequent struggle, he misplaced by DQ in fifteen rounds to Frank Klause, 65-12-12, of a scheduled twenty rounds.