Word: knockouts
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...each match limited to three rounds of three minutes each, and that the referee should have 1 discretionary power of stopping a match before time was up or before three rounds had been sparred. Moreover the decisions were to be made according to style and points, so that a knockout would not necessarily constitute a victory. The audience was extremely large but conlrolled itself remarkably well; on only one or two occasions was there any hissing and all applause was postponed until after each event...