BOXING TITLE
AVORLJ > -UHAAI kIUN SH IP LOpS NEVER THREATEN ED Boxing critics who witnessed the* recent world-title championship fightbetween Joe Louis and Tony Galento, state that, in spite of Louis being knocked down in the third round, he was never in danger ol defeat- ov Galen to. “'Ten minutes lielore the fight I. decided I would net attempt to finish him off .quickly,” stated Louis after the fight. “I thought'my best plan would he to work around him for some rounds and size him up properly before-. 1 cut loose. But he said a lot ol things T don’t like and butted me a counie of times. Then when he knocked me down in the third rounclt. 1 determined to finish him as quickly as i could. There’s no sense: in taking risks against a man who can hit like tlm t.” Galento is still at- home nursing the wounds received in the bout. He has had 23 stitches in cuts over his eye and one thet cheek and chin. Newspapers are still praising him lor his courage, and the general feeling is .nat he has earned a return bout .
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 224, 23 August 1939, Page 3
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191BOXING TITLE Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 224, 23 August 1939, Page 3
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