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American Boxing Association heavyweight rankings posted in Fall 1907 issue of USA Boxing magazine hits newstands the day before Luther McCarty's defence of his world title against Jess Willard at Los Angeles...Sam Langford, shunned by US promoters, takes on Kid Norfolk at Toronto's Coliseum and stops him in round seven via technical knockout...Norfolk goes down briefly in round one and again in round two, at which point Langford lets up and boxes on the defensive...Sam still does enough damage to Norfolk to force the referee to intervene...At Mount Royal Arena in Montreal Billy Miske survives a knockdown in round seven to come back and KO England's Tom Cowler in the very next inning...Newcomer Jack Dempsey of Colorado is offered a crack at the American heavyweight title belt worn by Harry Wills and turns it down to fight Al Palzer at South Bend Arena in Indiana for a guarantee of $1200...Gene Tunney, the Greenwich Village pugilist, signs to fight Leroy "Honeyboy" Wilson at Philadelphia, but backs out after injuring his hand in the gym...Wilson subsequently fights Porky Flynn and knocks him cold in seven rounds...At Los Angeles in a match for the vacant North American championship, Fred Fulton stops Gunboat Smith in the 10th round after delivering a severe beating from round six on...Fulton immediately issues a challenge to the winner of McCarty-Willard...At Clermont Avenue Rink in Brooklyn, Bartley Madden easily stands off the attack of Frank Moran and inflicts enough punishment to get the verdict after eight rounds...Across town Jim Coffey gets a technical knockout of a past-his-prime Battling Levinsky and at New York's Hippodrome Sailor White upsets the oddsmakers when the referee stops his fight with Bill Brennan as the latter struggles to rise from the canvas in round eight...Most ringsiders say Brennan had not properly recovered from his illness...