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and easily rolled away from Brown's punches. Mason's punch was not considered particularly strong by
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British and European lightweight titles at Holland Park Rink in Kensington, and won when Izzard failed to return to the ring after the eighth round. In his first trip to the canvas, a right uppercut from Mason put Izzard down for a count of nine in the eighth. When he arose, Mason
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Madison Square Garden. A crowd of only 5,000 showed up to see the bout. In his first showing in America, Mason caught Dundee on the chin in the opening of the first round, but somehow Dundee made it through to the bell, recovering well by the second.
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Madison Square Garden. Though he took a serious beating in a decisive loss, Mason remained on his feet throughout the bout, after having some trouble in the first. His third round was his best, but in the majority of rounds, Freeman
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Kensington, the two having exchanged blows at the weigh-in; Mason defeated Hood in a fifteen-round points decision. In 1928 he travelled to Australia for a series of fights.
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appeared to deliver three times the number of blows as Mason. A Depression crowd of only 5,000 attended the Garden's bout, having limited interest in the foreign challenger to Freeman.
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on 19 November 1925 in a twenty-round points decision at the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington, making him a career holder of British championships in two weight classes.
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in a fifteen-round decision in Leicester, England on 17 December 1934. He continued to fight until 1937, losing his final fight to
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