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Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). For the middleweight championship: Bobo Olson v. Kid Gavilan...
...York City, Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan, who has his eye also on the middleweight title, won the Edward J. Neil plaque as Fighter of the Year...
...Chicago, Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan successfully defended his 147-lb. title by trouncing Chicago's Johnny Bratton in a lopsided 15-rounder. Gavilan's next objective: the middleweight (160 Ibs.) championship, now held by Hawaii's Carl ("Bobo") Olson...
...Gavilan set out to give a boxing lesson, stabbing sharp lefts, waltzing away, rushing in for a ferocious flurry of punches. He got his comeuppance in the second round. Instead of backing away in confusion, Basilio met the champion headon. He shook Gavilan with a right, landed a crushing left hook flush on his jaw. The crowd went wild; for the second time in 112 fights, the great Kid Gavilan was down, flat on his back, eyes glazed, pomaded hair askew. The referee counted to eight before the champion got to his feet and groggily hung on until the bell...
...when he landed one, the champion's knees buckled. At the 14th round, the crowd was on its feet cheering; at the 15th, the roar drowned out the bell-both champion and challenger kept slugging away until the referee stepped in. On the officials' score cards, Gavilan's masterful boxing overrode both Basilio's early advantage and his later courage. The decision: Gavilan, by a split vote of 2 to 1. For the records, Cuba's Kid Gavilan was the winner and still champion...