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			*'''[[WBO]] Junior Middleweight Championship''' (4th defense by Jackson)

	* WBO Light Middleweight title (Jackson'~~s 4th defense)~~
			'''Jackson Beats Trice, Heat To Retain His Wbo Crown'''<br>
			<small>By Robert Seltzer, The Philadelphia Inquirer Staff, July 22, 1991</small>

			McKEE CITY, N.J. — On a day when the most savage opponent was millions of miles away, John David Jackson and Tyrone Trice went 12 brutal rounds with the sun - and each other - yesterday afternoon at the Atlantic City Race Course.

			Jackson, who defended his World Boxing Organization junior-middleweight title, won both battles, staying remarkably fresh en route to a unanimous decision.

			Judges Jean Williams and Harold Lederman scored the bout 116-111, while Jim Condon had it 117-110.

			Jackson, of Seattle, raised his record to 25-0; Trice, of Milwaukee, fell to 37-4.

			Trice decked the champion in the final round, but the punch came too late to have a deciding impact on the scorecards.

			"I think the heat was more of a factor than he was," Jackson said after the fight. "I felt I was in better condition than he was, and I thought he would wilt before I did."

			Referee Joe Cortez expressed surprise that the fight went the distance.

			"I don't know how they did it," he said.

			The fight, part of a doubleheader billed as "The Main Event," followed the Caesars International Handicap thoroughbred stakes race, won by Exbourne.

			Both fighters sweated so much that they might qualify as jockeys for the next race here.

			With the ringside temperature hovering at 110 degrees, the ring became a grill that threatened to roast the two boxers.

			Both fighters, sweating profusely from the start, braved the heat early in the match, reacting to the blistering afternoon as if it were a pleasant autumn day.

			But that reaction did not last long, as both men battled the heat as they fought each other.

			Jackson (153 pounds), a southpaw, won the first two rounds by boxing cautiously and darting inside with occasional combinations to the head, but Trice (154 pounds) kept pressing forward.

			The champion stepped up the attack in the fourth round, connecting with some thudding body shots, while the challenger, a loaded gun threatening to go off at any moment, waited to land one big shot.

			By the fifth round, which must have felt like the 15th to the fighters, Trice seemed to be waiting too long, allowing the champion to build a healthy margin on the scorecards.

			Then, in the sixth round, the challenger landed two crunching rights to the head, and suddenly a strategy that had appeared foolish began to look wise.

			In the subsequent rounds, however, it became apparent that Trice could not follow up on his brief rally.

			The challenger took on the glazed look of a sleepwalker in the ninth round, pawing with his left and lunging weakly with his right.

			"I think the heat did it to me more than anything," Trice said. "By the seventh or eighth round, I felt like I couldn't stand up. I was in good condition, but the heat was overwhelming. I thought the heat and my pressing would wear him down, but obviously it didn't work."

			Jackson became more aggressive in the 10th round, landing solid combinations, retreating and charging back inside with more flurries.

			Trice, hoping for his second wind, got a wind of hurricane force in the 12th and final round, flooring the champion with a straight right to the jaw halfway through the round.

			"The heat was more intense than I thought it would be," Jackson said. "From the 10th round on, to be honest with you, I don't even remember what happened. I was boxing on instinct."

			And so both men survived a day in which thunderous punches were supposed to follow thundering hooves, but the scorching sun robbed the fighters of much of their strength - if not their heart. [http://articles.philly.com/1991-07-22/sports/25783875_1_heat-challenger-fighters]

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Boxsoup at 23:58, 11 March 2015

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