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MICHAEL BUFFER: LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN, GOOD EVENING AND
WELCOME TO DONALD TRUMP'S
CASINO RESORT HERE ON THE
BOARD WALK IN ATLANTIC CITY,
NEW JERSEY WHERE TONIGHT TOP
RANK INCORPORATED AND THE
KING OF BEERS PRESENTS THE
NIGHT OF THE HEAVYWEIGHTS.
LET'S GET THINGS STARTED WITH
EIGHT ROUNDS IN THE
HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION.
THE REFEREE FOR THIS BOUT IS
JOE CORTEZ.
INTRODUCING FIRST FIGHTING
OUT OF THE RED CORNER WEARING
THE BLACK TRUNKS WITH WHITE
TRIM FROM VIRGINIA AS A
PROFESSIONAL HIS RECORD 38
VICTORIES, 17 DEFEATS AND ONE
DRAW, 29 K.O.'S LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN, THE FIGHTING
COWBOY JAMES TILLIS.
AND HIS OPPONENT FIGHTING OUT
OF THE BLUE CORNER WEARING
THE BLACK TRUNKS WITH STARS
AND STRIPES TRIM.
HE WEIGHS 227 POUNDS.
FIGHTING OUT OF KANSAS CITY,
UNDEFEATED AS A PROFESSIONAL
WITH A RECORD OF 24 AND0.
2O K.O.'S.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TOMMY
"THE DUKE" MORRISON.
REFEREE: THE RULES I GAVE
BOTH TO YOU EARLIER.
I WANT A GOOD CLEAN FIGHT.
OBEY MY COMMANDS AT BOTH
TIMES.
SHAKE HANDS.
BARRY: A LOOK AT JAMES
"QUICK" TILLIS.
AL: I GUESS HE DOES HAVE A
GOOD LEFT HOOK.
BARRY: TILLIS SHAKES HIS
HEAD.
AL: DOWN GOES TILLIS, VERY
IMPRESSIVE.
AND TILLIS IS STILL IN A HEAP
OF TROUBLE.
AS YOU CAN SEE STILL HALFWAY
TO GO IN THE FIRST ROUND.
AL: THAT'S IT.
IT TOOK TWO MINUTES AND TWO
SECONDS.
BARRY: JAMES "QUICK" TILLIS.
HE IS A TRIAL HORSE.
FOR THIS YOUNG MAN, HE DID
SOMETHING THAT NOT MANY HAVE
DONE AND THAT'T TILLIS
OUT RIGHT AWAY.
AND TILLIS DID COME HERE IN
PRETTY DESCENT SHAPE.
YOU DIDN'T EX-EXPECT HIM TO
GO THAT EARLY.
BARRY: YOU HAVE TO LOOK ATOM
MY MORRISON.
HE WAS MORE IMPRESSIVE
TONIGHT THE WAY HE WAS USING
HIS PUNCHING AND SOME OF HIS
BIG PUNCHES WAS VERY, VERY
IMPRESSIVE TONIGHT.
AL: HE SHOWED HE COULD GET A
GUY OUT.
SO A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE NOT
BEEN ABLE TO KNOCK TILLIS OUT
SO QUICKLY.
THERE WERE THREE OF THESE
LITTLE KNOCK DOWNS HERE IN
THE FIRST ROUND.
THE FIRST ONE CAME COURTESY
OF A VERY GOOD LEFT HOOK.
YOU DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE ME A
LIAR WHEN I SAID HIS LEFT
HOOK WAS SO GOOD.
AT THIS POINT I DON'T THINK
TILLIS WAS AS HURT AS HE
WOULD BE NOW.
HERE'S THE SECOND KNOCK DOWN.
MORRISON CRUNCHING HIM WITH
THE LEFT HAND AND THE
STRAIGHT RIGHT AGAIN.
AND THE ACCURACY OF THE
PUNCHES -- THERE YOU SEE THE
UPER CUT, A GOOD EXAMPLE.
THERE WOULD BE A THIRD ONE.
THERE WOULD BE A THIRD KNOCK
DOWN WHICH WOULD INVOKE THE
THREE KNOCK DOWN RULE.
MORRISON PURSUING -- AS YOU
SAID, BARRY, BEING CAREFUL
WITH HIS PUNCHES AND
ECONOMICAL AS WELL.
THAT LEFT HOOK DID THE JOB.
THE THREE KNOCK DOWN RULE
ENDED THIS BOUT FOR TOMMY