1968.

April 28, 1968 - "Jack Smith" vs "Floyd Boudreaux" - Males 38lbs. Cajun Rules "Howard Teel" Referee and "Pete Sparks" Timekeeper


Jack is using a red and white dog called "Bozo", said to have been bought by Sonny Sykes from Jerome Hernandez. Floyd is using a black which he calls "Eli".

Eli gets the first hold as Bozo gets skin hold in throat. Eli is getting into the throat of Bozo as Bozo works an ear trying for a shoulder, $50 dollars to $25 dollar bets being made. Bozo the favorite.

Eli is showing good and working for Bozo's throat. $500 dollars to $250 dollars being offered. All the dog fighting in this previous match is being wraped up in 10 minutes of this fight. Eli gets in Bozo's throat at 14,then Bozo throws one leg over Eli's shoulder, gets a ear and throws Eli. Bozo gets a shoulder and shakes and Eli gets a mouth hold and gets him off.

Eli up at 15, and into throat. Eli comes up and the bets shift to even more as both dogs working shoulders and front legs. Bozo gets a nose and shakes at 21. Changes to the hind legs, gets stifle and shakes. Bozo is working the front legs. Back to mouth fighting at the 25 minute mark. Bets getting hard to get at even money as first one then the other gets on top and gets nose and mouth.

Eli acts as though he has shot his wad. Bozo, has opened up Eli's front leg and Eli is weakening. The story is, that Eli has heart worms. At the 38 minute mark, a pickup. Bozo to scratch. Made determined scratch, and gets a front leg, and Eli goes into Bozo's neck. At the 40 minute mark another a pickup is made, Eli scratches hard. Bozo gets nape of neck and Eli goes down. At the 45 minute mark Kenneth Chandler says, if the little black dog don't win, his children will go hungry for a week.

At the 54 minute mark, another pick up was made with Bozo to scratch, and he made a very determined scratch. At the 57 minute mark another pick up was made with Eli to scratch, he trotted over and took an ear hold and Bozo goes down. Bozo makes a good scratch at the one hour mark. One minute later, Eli makes a good scratch and Smith gives up the fight. Eli is the winner in one hour one minute.






November 9, 1969 - "Jack Smith" vs "Junior" - Males at 37 1/2 lbs. Cajun Rules

Leo Kinard - Referee


Jack is using a fawn and white corvino dog. Junior is using a black dog named Eli. Eli, is the betting favorite from the start as he gets the Corvino dog in the throat with a skin hold. The Corvino dog gets an ear and holds on. Deuce is Jack's dog's name. Eli is Boudreaux breeding. Deuce held the ear for about 4 minutes. Eli got loose but Deuce got his ear again and throws Eli. Eli gets in the throat an Deuce tumbles in a summersault in an effort to free himself. Deuce gets Eli by the nose and gets him off, gets a leg. Eli tries but can't stay in hold. Boudreaux claims that Bozo broke his jaw.

Sonny Sykes bought Bozo from Hernandez. Bozo had previously beat Al Offer's "Tuffy" in December. Jack's dog is fanged. Handler frees him at 19. Dogs out of hold at 20, catching their breath. Eli gets the throat. Deuce is on his back with skin hold, and Eli is resting out of his hold at 23. Eli gets up and tries for the throat, but Deuce gets an ear and Eli goes down. Dogs out of hold catching their breath at 26.

After a flurry of excitement, the dogs are out of hold and Junior asks for an out of hold count. Jack asks the referee if he must consent and the referee tells him no, so Jack refuses to go along with the out of hold count.

Eli gets up and gets a good hold on a front leg but lets go and stands, Deuce is flat, catching breath at 30. Then they are up and at it, and Eli is working a cheek hold. Deuce was fanged through the tounge, Jack frees him. Eli acts like he thinks he has done all he should be called on to do but goes back into foot and skin holds. At 35, the dogs are out of hold, catching their breath.

Eli turns, a pick up is made, Eli scratches hard and went for the throat and Deuce goes down. 37, a handle was made, Deuce to scratch. Deuced is counted out and the black dog makes a good courtesy scratch. Eli declared winner in 38 minutes.






April 19, 1969 - "Douglas Nirider" vs "Gary Stoup" Males 50 1/2 lbs. Cajun Rules To Govern

"Don Maloney" Referee


Doug using a son of Eli and out of Eli's half sister. Gary had a big head, well built red and white dog, called Jack. I believe he is a California bred dog. There was a lot of interest in this match and the bids were pretty high, and this Eli Jr. had killed one hog in January with C. J. Jones in Dallas. The black was said to be foul fighting dog that would eat a dog's stifle, stomach, and other parts up. Gary had a hard biting dog that he believed could hold the black dog off until he tired, then chew him up.

Both dogs looked real good and as strong as bears. They acted like football players with Red Jack taking the ear then switching to the nape of the neck, ELi Jr. was in Jack's chest and chewing so hard his rear end would leave the ground a little. Both dogs extra fast for this weight.

Red got Eli Jr's foot in his jaw and broke it at about the 15 minute mark. The blood poured from Eli's foot but no sign of letting up for either dog. Eli had not yet gone to Jack's rear end, but at about the 22 minute mark they were in each others stifle, but still Eli had not taken the foul hold.

Eli began to go ahead of Jack from the 22 minute mark on. This Eli Jr. was as terrible as Doug had said he was. I think Gary had one of the few dogs in the country that could have stayed with this Jack dog. Jack turned at 31 minutes and when called on to scratch came halfway over, then turned around and went back to his corner. I will be the last one to blame him for quitting on that dog. Eli Jr. the winner in 32 minutes. Eli made a fast hard coutresy scratch. Eli Jr. was voted thje best dog of the convention.




February 22, 1970 - "Douglas Nirider" vs "Kent Tatum" - Males 51 lbs. Cajun Rules To Govern "Cecil Pond" Referee


Kent Tatum's red dog, Buck, was conditioned and handled by Wendell Trussell while Bobby Hall had conditioned and was holding the black dog, Eli Jr., for Nirider.

Dogs swap out stifle holds when they first meet. After about 4 minutes of this, the black dog learns to hold him off with ear holds. At about the 6 minute mark, Eli gets the stifle, but Buck gets him off with a ear hold. Eli gets a shoulder hold at about the 12 minute mark, and works Buck over good until Buck gets him off with a nose hold. At the 20 minute mark, the pattern has been the same, but Buck is weakening as Eli has been pouring it on.

By the 25 minute mark, Eli Jr. is working Buck over, from front to rear, pretty much as he chooses, and the red is getting weak. From 24 to 36 minutes, Eli is working Buck over and after shaking out a shoulder hold, rests for air, Buck is down but has a cheek hold. Eli Jr. gets a stifle and Buck cannot get him off. At 45, a turn is called on Eli as he walks over to Buck and gets a stifle.

Pick up at 49 minutes and Eli makes a good hard scratch, working Buck over with cheek and throat holds, and appears to be biting harder as the fight progresses. At 58, another pick up with Buck to go. Buck tried to scratch but fell, then got to his feet, went forward again, took a few steps and fell once more just about two feet from his opponent. Eli declared the winner in 59 minutes.

Buck was still trying to get to his feet when Trussell picked him up and gave up the fight. Buck showed the boys what a game dog was, but he just could not keep the hard biting Eli out. This Eli is a son of the Eli dog of Floyd Boureauxs. This makes Eli a two time winner.






December, 12th, 1975 - Chicken Sam's "Gator" vs Glovers "Champ Art" at Catchweight


Chicken Sam used his 2 time winner Gator into Ch. Art. Both dogs were worked for other matches and they fell through, so they matched each other.

At "pit your dog", Gator gets on Art's nose and walks him around the pit. Art, pushing for the shoulders. At about 8-10 minutes. Art gets the shoulders and shows that hard bite he is known to have.

The fight goes on with Art working the body and going into the stifle and Gator trying to hold Art out. 30 minutes and Gator has been bit to pieces and takes the count making Art a four time winner.