page_title: Dixie Kid
section_title: Attempt at the world welterweight championship against Joe Walcott, 1904
hierarchical_section_title: Dixie Kid / Professional career / Attempt at the world welterweight championship against Joe Walcott, 1904
caption_attribution_description: English: Dixie Kid, american boxer from 1900 to 1920. Português: Dixie Kid, pugilista americano entre 1900 e 1920.
context_page_description: Aaron Lister Brown aka Dixie Kid was an American boxer. He was a controversial contender for the World Welterweight Boxing Championship in April 1904.
context_section_description: On April 29, 1904, Kid challenged Barbados Joe Walcott for the latter's World Welterweight Championship title. The Kid was down in the tenth round for a count of six. In the one sided contest, Walcott appeared to have a clear advantage in all but the seventh round. By the eleventh round, the tiring Kid began to clinch.  Walcott was winning the fight handily when the referee disqualified him with no evident explanation in the final seconds of the 20th round. "Duck Sullivan", the referee who made the strange call of foul, was a last minute replacement, and Walcott protested the choice before the bout began.   Many in the crowd were shocked with the decision, and Walcott himself was immediately angered at referee Sullivan who made the call. The match was disregarded as a title bout when it was discovered, not surprisingly, that referee Sullivan had bet on Dixie Kid to win the match.
  On September 28, 1909, he lost to "Colored" black heavyweight champion claimant Sam Langford in Boston, Massachusetts, when the Kid's handlers threw in the towel after the fifth round. Langford outweighed his opponent by at least twenty-five pounds. By most accounts, the "Kid" showed great cleverness in the bout eluding Langford's punches in the early rounds, and put up a skilled display of boxing in the close match.  In the third round, the Kid nearly stopped Langford with a series of body blows, and short jabs to the face. As Langford gained his stride, the "Kid" went down once in the fifth round and again as the bell sounded, and could not return to box in the sixth when the towel was thrown.
  On November 1, 1909 he faced the impressive black boxer Jeff Clark and fought to an eight-round win, which he repeated on November 15.  In their fight of November 1, the bout was close for the first six rounds, but the Kid took the advantage in the seventh and knocked Clark to the mat at the end of the eighth, with the bell sounding before the count could be completed.  Clark would later fight for championships in Panama City, Panama against such exceptional black opponents as Kid Norfolk, a future International Boxing Hall of Fame recipient, Roughouse Ware, and Sam McVea.  Clark would take the Panamanian Heavyweight Title in May 1915.
caption: Dixie Kid in his prime
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