Fight:102403

Newsboy Brown 118 lbs beat Eugene Huat 119 lbs by PTS in round 12 of 12

• Date: 1931-09-09
• Location: Forum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Referee: Georges Rivet

"The twelve rounds were fought in two relays. The fight ended abruptly near the end of the tenth when, after being hit low three times, Brown sank to the floor in intense pain. Then for twenty minutes, suspense reigned supreme while he was taken from the ring, to a private dressing room, examined by five physicians of the Commission, two of whom said he was fouled, three disagreeing. Then there was the problem of what to do next.... But technically, Huat had won the fight, because of Brown's absence from the ring. But, technically also, Huat had lost the fight because his second, Gus Wilson, had invaded the ring before Brown had left it. So the Athletic Commission, with fair play to both great little fighters, and to the crowd which was clamouring wildly around the ringside to see the end of one of the bitterest battles ever staged in a Montreal ring, carved the Gordian knot by ordering the fight to be fought out to a finish. Fair enough! And what a finish it proved to be! If these two game-cocks had fought before, they tore into the remaining two rounds and a fraction like a pair of mad wild-cats." Montreal Herald