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January 1958
Well, decided to break out TB2.5 which I thankfully still had installed on my PC. Started up ok and so I've exported my complete data base from 2013 and imported it into 2.5. For the most part that went ok and it seems to be working OK. I was able to get auto schedule work fine to do my play testing of Murdoch and Jenkins.....So we'll keep things going with 2.5 for now until I can get things worked out, I hope, with 2013
Friday 11 October 1957
Moree, New South Wales, Australia
promoter Jeff McNeill
boxer lbs record boxer lbs record
Bob Murdoch 173 6 1 0 W Ross Jenkins 205 3 2 0 TKO 10/12
Heavyweight
vacant Australia - New South Wales State heavyweight title
referee: Ray Mitchell
Bob Piper 146 10 4 1 W Les Silk 143 6 5 1 KO 3/8
Welterweight
JANUARY 1958 RING: They called it the best heavyweight fight in Australia in a long time as promoter Jeff McNeill staged Bob Murdoch vs Ross Jenkins for the New South Wales State Heavyweight Title. Bob Murdoch’s birth name is Jock. I’ve created his file as Jock Murdoch. There is another Bob Murdoch from Australia that we’ll meet up with later. Ross Jenkins 10th round TKO loss to Murdoch in this fight is shown as his last in BoxRoc. A short 3-3-0 record either knocking out his opponent or being knocked out himself. His other two KO losses being to Allen Williams and Kitione Lave. Ray Mitchell who wrote the account of this fight for Ring Magazine served as referee in the fight. Jenkins’ “power punching” put Murdoch down twice in the second round. Murdoch got through that round and though shaken at different times in the fight, he suddenly in the 10th round connected with a right to Jenkins’ jaw and sending Ross to the canvas. Ross got up in 9, but referee Mitchell stopped the fight.
TITLE BOUT 2.5: With the move, back to 2.5 for the time being at least till I get my problems worked out with 2013, we’ll do our first replay matchup on 2.5 between Murdoch and Jenkins. The replay as close as you could maybe get on the score cards up through the first 11 rounds with Murdoch up 107-105 on two cards while the 3rd had it even at 106-106. While the fighters were alternating advantages through the first 6 rounds, then all three judges scored rounds 7, 8 and 9 all even 10-10 scores! Rounds 10 and 11 given to Murdoch while one judge split gave that MD to Murdoch through Murdoch through round 11. Through that first 11, each fighter was able to score points with each feeling the stings of his opponent’s hard punches. Jenkins had suffered a cut on the bridge of his nose earlier in the fight and was bleeding on and off. Right toward the end of the 11th round the two fighter’s heads clashed opening and widening the cut. Jenkins corner gets the cut closed for the moment to start the 12th, but Murdoch comes out with the determination to carry the fight and finish off Jenkins and begins connecting punches as Jenkins is losing steam. At the 1:26 mark Murdoch cranks up the hook and connects to Jenkin’s jaw stunning him. Then at 1:55 Murdoch throws a cross that scores to Jenkins head and now Jenkins is bleeding profusely from the cut on the nose. The referee now gets between the fighters and after looking at Jenkin’s cut with the ringside doctor, the Referee a the 2:01 mark calls the fight. Winner again by TKO Jock “Bob” Murdoch!
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