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Cutting from The Chicago Daily News - November 1897....One reporter is said to have overheard Johnson tell McVea just before the bell that McVea was going to forfeit a thousand bucks because he had signed to weigh in under 200 pounds....McVea was visibly shaken and distracted when Johnson stepped in and dropped him with his famous right uppercut....In Cleveland's Centralia Hall Gus Ruhlin knocked down Big Bill Morrison 4 times before knocking him out at 1:21 of the twelfth round to retain his NABF title belt....At Woodward's Pavilion Al Kaufman caught Fireman Jim Flynn rushing in with a right hand in the first round that put him down for a nine count then proceeded to give him a terrific beating from pillar to post before knocking him out cold in the second round....Flynn later charged that Kaufman's gloves were loaded...At Chicago Tom Sharkey, having told his seconds he intended to go for broke in the first round, attacked Klondike Haynes when the latter extended his glove to shake and floored him with a left hook, overhand right and head-butt to the face out of sight of the ref....Haynes staggered up into another right and left to the head followed by an elbow to the cheek and was down for eight....His left glove had just cleared the canvas again when Sharkey's sweeping left caught him on the temple and dumped him through the ropes into the arms of the press corps where he was counted out....At Hazard's Pavilion Bob Jones alias "College Boy" won on a foul from Texas Bob Thompson after repeated warnings by Referee Jack Welsh....