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In the interest of speed and timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain spelling or grammatical errors.
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Brinkley stops Corder in first round
Tuesday June 03, 2003
WORLEY, Idaho (AP) Jesse Brinkley of Yerington, Nev., stopped
Cleveland Corder at 2:24 of the first round Monday night to claim
the vacant Western U.S. middleweight title of the American
Professional Boxing Association.
Brinkley improved to 20-1 with 14 knockouts. Corder, of Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho, fell to 27-2.
Brinkley floored Corder twice with crushing rights at the Coeur
d'Alene Casino. Referee Jerry Armstrong stopped the fight after
Corder staggered to his feet following the second knockdown.
The fight, originally scheduled last October, had been called
off twice due to training injuries suffered by each boxer.
Before the main event, light flyweights Hugo Cozares (16-4-1)
and Francisco Arce (13-2), both of Los Mochis, Mexico, won by
technical knockout, and welterweight Frank Bybee (3-3) of Worley
won by unanimous decision. Cozares defeated Valentino Leon (14-6)
of Culiacan, Mexico; Arce defeated Sandro Oviedo (23-20-2) of
Mendoza, Argentina; and Bybee defeated Tony Jimenez (1-4) of Nampa,
Idaho.
Following the main event, Los Angeles cruiserweight Marcus
Harvey (7-8-2) won by split decision over Luke Munsen (11-1) of
Spokane, Wash. Welterweight Favio Medina (3-1) of Sandpoint, Idaho,
then scored a technical knockout over Bobby Green (1-2-1) of
Oklahoma City.
(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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