Jose Napoles vs. Adolph Pruitt (1st meeting)

Jose Napoles beat Adolph Pruitt by TKO in round 3 of 10

• Date: 1965-12-11
• Location: El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

"Jose (Mantequilla) Napoles of Cuba stopped welterweight Adolph Pruitt of Aberdeen, Miss., in the 3rd round. The referee stopped the fight after Pruitt apparently suffered a fracture of his right hand after hitting Napoles in the head." -Associated Press

• The actual diagnosis of Pruitt's injury was a separated shoulder, which required an operation that side-lined Pruitt for a full year.
• This was one of four 10 rounders that was part of the annual boxing writers show. The other 10 rounders was the second fight between Sugar Ramos and Raul Soriano, Efren Torres v Bob Allotey and John O'Brien v Mario Diaz.