Because their two previous fights had been peculiarly uneventful, the crowd in Madison Square Garden for last week's bout between Heavyweight Contenders Ernie Schaaf and Stanley Poreda was one of the smallest of the year. The fight was one of the most exciting. Poreda, a handsome, over-confident Pole, came out en- thusiastically for the first round. He outboxed Schaaf and continued to outbox him in the second until, when the round was more than half over, Schaaf landed the blow that really settled the fight. This was a short right uppercut which caught...
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