CHOCOLATE "EATEN"
EASY FIGHT FOR JOHNNY KliSG Johrmy King, the British bantamweight champion, proved too good for Young Chocolate, champion of Jamaica, in their ten rounds contest at Bristol on October 11. The coloured fighter was knocked out at the end of the fougth round. King, forsaking his usual methods, neglected his left, and did all his punching with a solid right hand. Chocolate was soon in difficulties. In the second round King connected with his right, and when Chocolate attempted to force the fight it proved disastrous for him. Keeping his man off with short left jabs to the head, King suddenly brought over a right swing to the jaw and Chocolate went down for a eoujat of eight. Chocolate raiil-d well and carried thc fight to his man at the opening of the third round. but when King again let loose a tei-rific right to the jaw the Jamaican again went down for eight, A|
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 17
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157CHOCOLATE "EATEN" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 17
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