Jeffries / Fitzsimmons Fight - 1899

This film begins with a Newspaper Headline announcing the fight. We see the fighters being fanned by towels (in between rounds) and then the fight resumes. Jeffries, in the light trunks, knocks down Fitzsimmons, in the dark trunks. The round ends and the fighters are again fanned with towels before the next round. There is no record of what round is seen in this film, however.

What is known is the information given in the Newspaper Headline: The Bout took place on Coney Island Thursday, June 9, 1899, and it was a Championship fight.

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