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Written by Rob Snell
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Sunday, 05 April 2009 |
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Page 1 of 2 Name: Bob Pastor
Career Record: click
Alias: Robert E. Pasternak
Nationality: US American
Hometown: New York, New York, USA
Born: 1914-01-26
Died: 1996-01-26
Age at Death: 82
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 5′ 11½″
Trainer: Freddie Brown
Nebraska State Journal
21 September 1939
LOSER CLAIMS FOUR OF TEN ROUNDS UP TILL WINNING BLOW
40,000 Shivering Fans See Ex-New York Collegian Hang on Gamely.
BY SID FEDER.
BRIGGS STADIUM, Detroit.
After chasing Bob Pastor round for 30 minutes and getting nowhere, Joe Louis knocked out the excollegian from New York in 38 seconds of the ll th round Wednesday night to retain his world's heavyweight championship. Louis weighed 200 pounds; Pastor 183.
After flooring Pastor four times In the first round and once in the second, Louis couldn't do a thing with the back pedalling husky until his left shot out with sudden fury in the llth. Pastor dropped, managed to raise himself to his knees, but could not get to his feet before Referee Sam Hennessy counted the full ten.
A crowd estimated at 40,000 contributed to a gross gate of around $400,000 to see Louis successfully defend the title for the eighth time since he won it from Jim Braddock in 1937.
Round by Round
Following is a round by round, blow by blow, description of the Joe Louis-Bob Pastor fight for the heavyweight boxing championship of the world:
ROUND ONE.
Pastor landed a light left to the nose as he tried to feint Louis open. Louis gave a left hook to the jaw. The champion cracked a hard right to the cheek and then shot a straight left to the nose. Louis was moving slowly. Pastor landed a solid right on the check and Louis covered up as Bob came In fast with both -bands flailing. Louis shook Pastor with a smashing right to the face and floored him with a right and another pair of rights floored him once more. He was up after a short count, and tried to hold on. Louis dropped him to one knee with a short right at the
bell. Louis' round.
ROUND TWO.
Louis rushed out and stabbed with his left as Pastor backed away. A short right caught Bob on the cheek as be tried to hold. Louis cracked another right and a straight left to the face as Pastor jabbed twice. Pastor skipped around the champion staying out of reach. Bob dropped a short right to the mid section. Louis missed a left and landed a right on the ear. A smashing right shook Pastor to the heels and several straight lefts bloodied his nose. Pastor shot a straight left to Louis' nose. A vicious right dropped Pastor for a count of nine. Pastor's head snapped back from two bard lefts and he backed away at the bell. Louis' round.
ROUND THREE.
Louis sent two short lefts to Bob's nose. Pastor came back with a left to the eye. A left shook Pastor. Bob sent a left to the chin. They exchanged lefts to the face as Pastor backed away. A short left caught Bob on the cheek and they exchanged lefts. A left had Pastor hanging on temporarily. Pastor caught Louis on the chin with a long overhand right. A short right sent Pastor into the ropes. Another right in close snapped his head back. Louis sent the short right to the face
again at the bell. Louis' round.
ROUND FOUR.
Louis jabbed twice with his left and took the same punch to his face in return A right cross bad Pastor wobbling once more. Pastor continued to back away. In close, Louis connected with a short right to the cheek Louis sent a long left to the eye. Pastor connected with an overhand right to the cheek and a left to the jaw. Pastor landed a left under the ear as Louis continued to jab, waiting for a right hand opening. Pastor sent a left that grazed the cheek and another that landed on the face as Louis continued to shuffle forward and jab. Pastor's round.
ROUND FIVE.
Louis shot left and rights to the body as they went into a clinch. The bomber sent two lefts to the face and a left to the body. Pastor landed light left to the face and hung on as Louis fired a left to the body Pastor boxed and jabbed twice with his left. Pastor shot a left and right to the champion's chin. Pastor sent a short right under the heart and took a left to the face The crowd roared as Louis missed five straight punches Louis fired a smashing right and then a left and a right and left and Pastor was badly hurt. Louis' round.
ROUND SIX.
Louis sent light lefts to the body and a hard left to the cheek as Pastor backed away and boxed. A smashing right and left sent Pastor to the ropes and another right shook him to the heels. The champion again connected with a right to the jaw Once more the champion's right landed and Bob was hurt. Bob fired lefts and rights to the body and took a right to the head In return, Pastor shot a left to the body and another to the face Louis bounced a short left hook off the jaw. The champion connected with his right to the head. They exchanged light lefts Pastor's head flopped back from a left to the chin at the bell Louis' round.
ROUND SEVEN.
Louis connected with a left to the chin then repeated the punch A short right opened a slight cut under Pastor's eye Pastor was back pedaling and Louis was trying to find an opening. Two rights bounced off Pastor's mouth and more blood showed. Louis shot another pair of lefts to the mouth. Pastor landed a short right and then clinched. Louis sent a long left and then a right to the jaw which shot Pastor's head back Pastor leaped in and landed lightly with a left and right to the head A vicious right caused Bob to buckle but he came back with left and right to the face .They were moving about the ring at the bell. Louis' round.
ROUND EIGHT.
Louis again jabbed lightly with his left and Pastor backed away boxing cautiously. Pastor sent a short left to the law. They exchanged light lefts to the chin and Louis sent a long right to the jaw and a left to the body. In close, Joe connected with a left uppercut Pastor landed rights on the chin and the champion cuddled up against the ropes as Pastor moved in Pastor sent a light left to the body. Louis fired a straight left to the chin then took left and right to the head from Bob at the bell. Pastor's round.
ROUND NINE.
They exchanged a series of straight lefts with no effect Pastor sent a left to the face and took a right and left to the head in exchange. Pastor connected with a straight left to the jaw Louis fired his left to the nose and was again waiting for a right hand opening. Louis missed with his right and Pastor put three light lefts to the jaw as Louis countered with two lefts. Pastor's right grazed Louis' chin, then Louis landed a hard left to the face Pastor jabbed three times with his left. Louis put a left to the nose and took a left hook on the chin at the bell. Pastor's round.
ROUND TEN.
They exchanged lefts to the face which did not damage Pastor sent a short and choppy left to the chin Louis speared Pastor with his long left Pastor backed away and continued to jab Pastor sent a short right hook to the chin and then received two hard lefts on the face A short right to the mouth hurt Bob. Louis sent two short lefts to the face and took a long left under the eye. Both stabbed with lefts and Pastor backed away over the ring. A short right opened the cut under Pastor's left eye. A long left grazed a slight mouse under Louis' left eye at the bell. Pastor's round
ROUND ELEVEN'.
Again they boxed, throwing light lefts .Then Louis dropped Pastor with a smashing left in midring and Pastor was unable to get off his knees as Referee Hennessy counted ten to give Louis a victory in 38 seconds of the 11 th round.contest.
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