Aurelio Herrera - Gilbertgia.com

point in his career. 128 Five thousand spectators at McCarey’s
pavilion in Los Angeles saw Herrera meet Young Corbett II. 129
Corbett fans were delighted by his early-round success. 130
The Times wrote, “When Corbett had made several clever rushes
that scintillated somewhat of his previous form and landed on the
Mexican, who danced away, there were those who called “Yellow”
from the tiers of humanity. Corbett commenced taunting, and a
token of a popular victory noised through the air.” 131
In the Fourth, Corbett sent Herrera against the ropes, “and the
crowd shouted for glee. In wily fashion he [Herrera] slipped to
the center of the ring with his deadly arm poised for action, but
the gong sounded….” 132
Spectators were struck dumb in the Fifth when Herrera KO’d
Corbett. The Times’ postmortem read, “A more popular boxer
perhaps never stepped into the ring, and, when he went to
oblivion Friday evening, hardly a person of the great crowd at the
ringside but felt sympathy for the lightweight as he lay helpless
128 Jan 11, 1906
129 Corbett (William H. Rothwell) had risen steadily in the
featherweight class but suffered recent reversals.
130 San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 13, 1906. Corbett won the world featherweight
title from Terry McGovern on Nov 28, 1901.
131 Los Angeles Times, Jan 13, 1906
132 Ibid.
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