Tuesday 22 October 1957
Auditorium
Richmond, California, USA
promoter Jimmy Cosenza
boxer lbs record boxer lbs record
Jimmy Abeyta 112 7 0 3 W Abe Villa 111½ 9 1 1 KO 9/12
Flyweight
USA California State flyweight title
time: 0:34 referee: Jack Silver
Villa was knocked down in the 1st and 9th round.
Joe Louis III 11 10 2 W Andy Domebo 7 3 3 PTS 6/6
Heavyweight
Red Lite 0 6 0 L Rocky Fumerelle 10 0 0 PTS 6/6
Willie Woods 2 2 1 L Chico Villa 5 2 0 PTS 4/4
Tony Moss 6 2 3 W Larry Perez 1 1 0 PTS 4/4
JANUARY 1958 RING: One heavyweight matchup was part of the card which featured the California State Flyweight title fight between Jimmy Abeyta and Abe Villa at the Auditorium in Richmond, California. The BoxRec account of this fight notes that Abeyta won by Knockout in the 9th round of the scheduled 12 rounder. Notes that referee Jack Silver stopped it at 0:34 of the 9th and says Villa was knocked down in the 1st and 9th rounds. This Ring Magazine account says Abeyta stopped Villa early in the 2nd round?! Account says Villa got himself back up after the 2nd round knockdown but still dazed referee Silver halted the fight. Interesting side note here the difference in accounts of this fight. Anyone know information that backs up the BoxRec account or the Ring account/
The Ring magazine notes only that Joe Louis III won a decision in 6 over Andy Domebo. Does note their respective fight weights at 178 and 185 respectively. BoxRec does not note this. I rated Domebo at both LHW and HW. His career seems to break down this way forming a 5-2-3 record at light heavy and then moves up to heavyweight to take on Art Wright going 2-2 in his last 4 fights. That’s how I’ve broken the ratings down. More success and thus better rating at Light Heavyweight with his two losses being 4 and 6 round decisions to Sixto Rodriguez who was just getting his career started. I found and obituary for Domebo with a lot of interesting information on him. I’ve put the web link here to that article.
http://lmtribune.com/obituaries/andr...b02d207b0.html
Joe Louis III fashioned a modest record though it finished on the down side going 1-7-0 down the stretch. The only win the 6 round decision against Andy Domebo.
TITLE BOUT 2013 - Our rematch of Louis III and Domebo does not go the distance as Louis III manages to come back after getting dropped for a 9 count a minute into the 1st round by a Domebo combination. Joe manages to regain himself and get through the rest of the round. Domebo carried the 2nd round to gain a strong upper hand it looked like but Louis comes back strong in the 3rd and 4th rounds. Then in the 5th round Domebo manages to land several quick blows in the opening seconds but then suddenly Andy takes a sizzling uppercut from Louis flush on the chin and Domebo drops to his hands and knees! He gets to his feet wobbling while taking a mandatory 8. With barely a minute gone in the 5th, Domebo is in trouble even though he nods affirmative to the referee to let the fight go on. Louis quickly connects with a cross and then another powerful right cross staggering Domebo. Louis traps Andy in the left neutral corner and then lands a huge cross and Domebo hits the canvas a 2nd time in round 5 at the 1:28 mark. He struggles up in 9 leaning on the ropes. He gets himself off the ropes and comes back in toward Louis and the referee lets it continue. But then at 1:53 mark after Domebo absorbs a wicked cross to the head and staggers backwards and goes down in a heap. The fight is over by KO at 1:58. Victory for Louis III as in 1957 this time by knockout!