CARNERA’S PUNCH
IHOUX WAS “SOARED STIFF’
RAILED TO GIVE HONEST EX- . IHBITION GIANT ITALIAN RECEIVES FULL PURSE CHICAGO, Feb. 1 , The Illinois Boxing Commission has suspended Rioux. with a fine of 1000 dollars (about £200) for his failure to give (in honest exhibition of skill fin his bout with Camera. Camera was given a favorable judgment, and received the full purse of 17,000 dollars (about £3400.) Rioux’s . handlers insisted, that the fight was not “fixed.” They said that Rioux was “scared stiff”. When asked why he failed to fight. Rioux replied: “I tried, hut after the first punch X knew nothing.” On February 6 at Newark (N.J.) Camera meets “Cowboy” 'Evens, who defeated Rioux’ and Petersen.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11124, 6 February 1930, Page 5
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