Jimmy Carter vs. Larry Boardman

Larry Boardman 137 lbs beat Jimmy Carter 139 lbs by TKO at 1:35 in round 8 of 10

• Date: 1956-09-11
• Location: Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Referee: Jimmy McCarron
• Judge: Joe Ricciotti
• Judge: Joe Blumsack

"Confidence and fistic power carried Larry Boardman to an 8th round TKO (1:35) victory last night over three time lightweight titlist Jimmy Carter. Cheered on by a crowd of 6,807, which paid a gross of $28,383.75, Boardman staggered the declining New Yorker in the 2nd round. After piling up a mountain of points the succeeding round with a baffling assortment of head and body shots, Boardman rushed out in the 8th to smash Carter to the canvas three times mainly with deadly sure-shot rights and lefts." -United Press

• The Boardmans stated after this fight they had turned down a $25,000 offer from a South African promoter to fight Vic Toweel in Johannesburg later in the year, because of an anticipated shot at Joe Brown's lightweight title. In reality they must have meant Willie Toweel, a world ranked lightweight and not Vic who had retired two years earlier.

Post fight comments

• "I don't know what punch I did the job with, but the corner said they saw Carter in trouble and told me to shoot the works." -Larry Boardman

• "A heck of a good fighter beat me." -Jimmy Carter

• "We gave Blinky Palermo 10% of Larry after he beat Frankie Ryff because we figured he knew the ropes to a title bout." -Sam Boardman, Larry's father and manager