Fight:44725

Anton Raadik 160 lbs beat Ernie Vigh 156 lbs by KO at 2:06 in round 7 of 10

• Date: 1947-08-15
• Location: Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, USA

Before a dismally small crowd Vigh sliced open a bad cut over Raadik's right eye. Over and over Vigh landed the power punches that once had made him the terror of the middleweights on the slow moving, easy-to-hit Estonian but Raadik just soaked them up and kept coming forward. Before the sixth round started Referee Vincent Nardiello looked at Raadik's cut but allowed the fight to go on even though every time Vigh landed he left the referee and ring-siders spotted with red polka dots. Yet Vigh was no longer the same fighter he had once been. His relative inactivity and the fact that he came in at a career low weight (and possibly his new wife, having married two months earlier) left him weak, slow, and winded by this point.

Vigh succumbed in the 7th round after going down for only second time in his career. Vigh had agreed to a percentage of the gate for this fight and ended up with only $400, while the semi-final fighters made almost four times that amount.