International headlines reporting the Jeffries-Fitzsimmons fight....Jeffries knocked out Fitzsimmons in the 11th round to retain his IBU world title ....Fitzsimmons was down a total of three times over the course of the fight while a slip by Jeff was ruled a knockdown....Time of knockout was 2 minutes fifty-eight seconds of round eleven....Fitz had to be carried to his corner and revived before he was able to make his way to his dressing room on his own steam there to be examined by a local physician....He had a broken left hand, a cut over his left eye and two badly bruised ribs....In the preliminary Joe Millett forced a stoppage of Big Joe McAuliffe in round three as the big man hung on the ropes....A second preliminary filled in with Oxnard heavyweight Sam McVea knocking out New York's Con Tobin in two rounds...
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