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Fighters
Progress

Two veterans and a rising title
hopeful gained ground last night on
their potentially converging roads
to a crack at the World Heavyweight
boxing crown.

Undefeated, young title aspirant
George Foreman knocked out
Argentine Gregorio Peralta in the
10th round of their bout which
composed the third part of a closed
circuit heavyweight triple header
Monday night. In the other two
fights seen on the three fight slate,
former World Boxing Association
champions Ernie Terrell and Jimmy
Ellis nabbed unanimous ten round
decisions.

Foreman, the 22-year-old 216
pounder, is the top ranked
contender for Joe Frazier's crown
and did nothing to hurt that
ranking with his 25th KO in 28
professional fights. Foreman
outweighed his opponent by 21
pounds and battered him badly
despite the fact that he never
knocked him to the deck. Peralta,
36, took the mandatory eight count
from referee Elmer Costa in the
tenth as he lay weakly against the
ropes. Peralta lost an unpopular
decision to Foreman last year in
New York and was frustrated in his
revenge.

Terrell continued on his
comeback trail by whipping Luis
Pires of Brazil in 10. While
Foreman's fight was in the Oakland
Coliseum Arena. Terrell and Pires
slugged it out in Chicago's
Amphitheatre.

Ellis paid the price physically
but managed to outlast Canadian
George Chuvalo in Toronto's Maple
Leaf Gardens. Both boxers
withstood much punishment, with
Chuvalo, renown as a punching
bug of monumental proportions,
pouring blood from facial cuts for
much of the fight.

Live crowds at the three areas
were disappointingly thin as only
200 bothered to watch Terrell
tangle with Pires. Only figures from
the 13 closed circuit locations will
determine whether the tripleheader
format was a financial failure.