Jose Napoles vs. Pete Toro

Jose Napoles 150 lbs beat Pete Toro 151 lbs by TKO at 2:32 in round 9 of 10

• Date: 1970-10-05
• Location: Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, USA
• Referee: Jimmy Devlin

"Jose Napoles hardly needed a shower after slicing Pete Toro's face and knocking him down twice Monday night to win by a TKO with 28 seconds left in the 9th round of a 10 round non-title bout. Napoles gave the 8,000 fans what he thought he was paid to produce. The better half of Napoles was not included for such a small purse. Napoles didn't pick up the tempo until the start of the 8th. It was then he opened a deep gash over Toro's left eyelid and another beside the right eye, and a flurry of punches then knocked the Puerto Rican-born New Yorker down with a minute left in the 8th. In the 9th, Napoles moved in quickly and put down Toro again midway through the round, and a minute later referee Jimmy Devlin waved the fight over as Toro cringed with his back to Napoles to avoid more punishment." -United Press International

• Napoles' purse - $25,000

Post fight comments

• "I had to turn away. I couldn't see anymore. I didn't fight the way I should have from the start." -Pete Toro

• "Just say they only saw half of me in the ring." -Jose Napoles, to the media.