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Originally Posted by mh2365
May 6, 1911
Frank Klaus (CH) (21-6-1) went down 6 times including 4 times in the 8th round and still managed a UD15 over Bob Turnball (11/19) (16-2-1). Klaus retains his WBA Middleweight title getting his 6th defense.
Klaus dominated the opening of the fight winning 5 out of the first 6 rounds. Then the challenger dropped the champ late in the 7th. Then obviously the champ was not recovered as he was dropped 4 times in the 8th. How the fight wasn't stopped I have no idea. Points only ended up being 33-9.
Klaus recovered enough to win the next 3 rounds before being dropped again in the 12th. The two split the next two rounds and then Klaus dropped Turnball in the 15th and that proved to be the difference.
I had it 139-139, scoring the 8th 10-5. The ringside expert is useless in this fight because it won't score a round worse than 10-8. The official judges all had it 140-139, all scoring the 8th 10-5.
The LBA commissioner did not call for a mandatory rematch stating that even if the judges had scored it 10-5 it would have been a draw and Klaus would have still kept his title.
On the undercard
MW - George Rooke (31/23) (22-17-1) KO8 Joe Thomas (29/36) (16-6-4) 69-64 rooke
LW - George McFadden (62/59) (13-12-2) KO8 Jack Daly (96/96) (10-11-1) (96 is last ranked)
BW - Johnny Ritchie (38/38) (13-5-3) DRAW10 Billy Rotchford (44/44) (14-14-2) (ritchie at pre)
LH - John Donaldson (15/13) (20-13) SD10 Sam Campbell (19/30) (11-6) (campbell at pre)
LH - Fred Cooley (club) (13-16-2) UD10 Jack Beauscholte (club) (8-14-3) (club fight)
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Klaus is getting ready to fight next and just wanted to highlight his last title fight again!