Fight:18014

Gene Fullmer 159 lbs beat Joe Miceli 153 lbs by KO at 0:38 in round 2 of 10

• Date: 1958-11-10
• Location: Fairgrounds Coliseum, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
• Referee: Ken Shulsen

In a slam-bang exhibition of unleashed slugging fury, Gene Fullmer blasted Joe Miceli into fistic oblivion with a second-round knockout before 4,300 partisans in the Coliseum in Salt Lake City last night. The end came at 38 seconds of the second round as Fullmer, switching to an overhand volley-type of swinging, slammed Miceli to the canvas. Miceli, who set up this grudge match with a third-round kayo of Jay Fullmer last summer, was not in the contest with the former world’s middleweight champion after a brisk flurry in the first round. Miceli was down for a nine count, down on one knee for no-count, and groggy on the ropes – all from overhand rights – in the first round. In the second, Fullmer faked to the body and whistled another overhand right, and Miceli went down like a pole-axed steer. He was trying to get up as Referee Ken Shulsen counted “10.” Fullmer weighed 159, Miceli 153. [The Salt Lake Tribune]