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Johnny Saxton, fighting a counter punching battle, stripped listless Kid Gavilan of his world welterweight title last night on a unanimous decision in a dull 15 round fight in Philadelphia's Convention Hall...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Kid Gavilan v. Johnny Saxton, for the welterweight championship, from Philadelphia...
...climbed into the Chicago ring for a fight with Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan. Businessman Bobo should have been fairly well pleased. An audience of 18,582 fans had paid a whopping $334,730 at the gate. Another $100,000 in television rights brought the total to a record for a non-heavyweight bout. Bobo's share of all this was 35%. On good-natured impulse, he took a lei from his own neck and draped it over the neck of the startled Gavilan, then walked to his corner to await the opening bell...
...fighter, Bobo is somberly effective, if not flashy. Boring in steadily with a mixture of flicking lefts and chopping rights to the body, he set himself to close in and take the jumping-jack spring out of bouncy, flurry-punching Kid Gavilan. It was no easy matter. In the ninth round infighting, Olson butted Gavilan with his head, opened a cut on the Cuban's right cheekbone...
...tenth, flailing away with four of the fastest fists in the business, the two fighters stood toe-to-toe and slugged it out while the crowd howled. Gavilan unleashed one of his famed bolo punches, a freewheeling uppercut that starts with a backswing. Olson shrugged it off, kept right on boring...