Jimmy Bivins vs. Lloyd Marshall
Jimmy Bivins 175 lbs beat Lloyd Marshall 164 lbs by KO at 2:42 in round 13 of 15
- Date: 1943-06-08
- Location: Lakefront Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Marshall lost the 4th round due to a low blow.
- Unofficial UP scorecard (after 12 completed rounds) - 7-4-1 Bivins
- Post-fight X-Rays showed that Bivins suffered a broken nose.
- Attendance - 18,448
- Gate - $61,195
"Jimmy Bivins, 174 1/4, kayoed Lloyd Marshall in the 13th round in his first defense of his "duration" light-heavyweight championship before a crowd of 18,000 at Cleveland Stadium. Marshall, 164, commenced with a fast pace, winning the first three rounds on his speed. Bivins took the next three on his superior punching power. Marshall took the 7th, dropping Bivins with a right to the head. Pacing himself nicely, Bivins scored with hard left hooks and rights to the body during the next three frames. Marshall was floored for a nine count in the 9th and again in the 12th, but recovered each time. The coupe-de-grace was a hard right to Marshall's cheekbone in the 13th as he fell back into the corner from a series of Bivins' left hooks." -London Stars and Stripes