page_title: Fritzie Zivic
section_title: Boxing highlights after loss of the title, Sugar Ray Robinson, Beau Jack, Jake Lamotta, Beau Montgomery
hierarchical_section_title: Fritzie Zivic / Professional career / Boxing highlights after loss of the title, Sugar Ray Robinson, Beau Jack, Jake Lamotta, Beau Montgomery
caption_attribution_description: Original Jan 30 1947 Sugar Ray Robinson Welterweight Champion Boxing Wire Photo
context_page_description: Fritzie Zivic, born as Ferdinand Henry John Zivcich, was an American boxer who held the world welterweight championship from October 4, 1940, until July 29, 1941. His managers included Luke Carney, and later, after 1942, Louis Stokan.
context_section_description: He lost to the great Sugar Ray Robinson, a future Hall of Famer, on January 16, 1942 in a tenth-round technical knockout before 15,745 fans at Madison Square Garden.  Robinson used blinding speed in the opening rounds to overwhelm Zivic.  He took the sixth with sharp lefts, but Zivic clearly won the seventh with hooks to the midsection.  Robinson dropped Zivic with a long right overhand smash late in the ninth, and floored him with a two fisted attack in the tenth.  Zivic was trying to get to his feet at the count of six, but the referee stopped the bout 31 seconds into the round before he could fully rise.  In what was scored as a close bout, the Associated Press gave Robinson five of the nine, while Zivic took three and one was even. It was only the second time Zivic had been stopped before the end of a bout.  Impressively, for Robinson, it was his twenty-seventh straight win, with twenty-one via knockout.   
  Zivic defeated Italian boxer "Izzy" Anthony Jannazzo on March 9, 1942, leaving Janazzo unable to return to the ring for the fifth round at Duquesne Gardens in Pittsburgh. Zivic swarmed all over Janazzo in the first, closing Januzzo's eye in the second, and firing at it in the third and fourth, till Januzzo, unable to see, failed to answer the fifth round bell.  A skilled middleweight, Januzzo had contended for the world welterweight title against Barney Ross in November 1936 at Madison Square Garden.    
  On April 13, 1942, Zivic defeated Jewish Canadian boxer Maxie Berger, former holder of the Montreal Athletic Commission's Junior World Welterweight Title, in a ten-round points decision at Duquesne Gardens in Pittsburgh. A crowd of 5,000 watched Zivic knock Berger to the canvas a total of seven times, over the fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth.  Berger rallied in the tenth to keep he round even in scoring.  Berger's toughest round was the sixth when he was down for counts of nine, eight, and two.  In the fourth, Berger was hit by a low right from Zivic, and changed to more defensive tactics afterward, which reduced the slight points advantage he may have held in the first three rounds. With the exception of the seventh, the fifth through the eighth were all Zivic's who gained a strong lead in points. 
  He defeated Lew Jenkins, a 1940 world lightweight champion, on May 25, 1942, before 12,134 fans, in a decisive ten-round technical knockout in Pittsburgh.  With sharp, rapid two fisted punching, Zivic carved Jenkins' face severely, connecting often. His ripping rights and left hooks opened two old cuts on Jenkins' face early in the bout.   After the ninth, a ring doctor refused to allow a badly battered and bleeding Jenkins to return to the ring for the tenth round.  Though not officially considered knockdowns, five times in the second, sixth, and eighth rounds, Jenkins spun around and fell to the canvas.  He had drawn with Jenkins on December 20, 1940 in a ten-round points decision at the fabled Madison Square Garden.
caption: Sugar Ray Robinson
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