10-round non-title fight during the WW title reign of Basilio. The champ receives 10 rounds of stubborn resistance from this crowd-pleasing, all-action contender.
Carmen Basilio v Gil Turner Excellent and very competitive fight - that competitiveness is not reflected in my scorecard, though. The judges in this one couldn't decide - one had it 7-2 in rounds (as I did) to Basilio, another had it a closer 5-3 and the other had it 5 rounds apiece, which I think is overly generous to Turner. Not that he didn't have his moments and I did make half of the rounds close, but the rounds I scored for Basilio I was more confident in giving to him. He kept the momentum up throughout and I thought his punches were having a little more impact than Turner's. 1 10-9 2 9-10 (close) 3 10-9 (close) 4 10-9 5 10-9 6 9-10 (close) 7 10-9 (close) 8 10-10 (good back and forth) 9 10-9 10 10-9 Basilio 98-93 Turner
Welterweight champion Carmen Basilio narrowly edged out a majority choice over Gil Turner, Philadelphia, of their 10-round non-identify fight Wednesday night. Basilio suffered an eye-fixed reduction that required stitches from Turner's continual jabbing inside the early rounds. The fight changed into a bruising conflict.
https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Carmen_Basilio_vs._Gil_Turner "Welterweight champion Carmen Basilio narrowly edged out a majority decision over Gil Turner, Philadelphia, in their 10 round non-title fight Wednesday night. Basilio suffered an eye cut that required stitches from Turner's persistent jabbing in the early rounds. The fight was a bruising battle. Makes me wonder why a bot would change non-title to "non-identity" and eye cut to "eye-fixed reduction".
