DeWit Is Floored but Manages a Draw

LAS VEGAS — Willie deWit, the Olympic silver medalist in the heavyweight division, barely overcame a knockdown in the first round and a near knockdown in the second round Monday to salvage a draw with Alex Williamson in a preliminary bout to the Marvelous Marvin Hagler-Thomas Hearns middleweight championship fight.

DeWit (3-0-1) just managed to beat the count in the first round after Williamson floored him with a crushing left hook. The native of Alberta, Canada, almost went down again in the next round from another left hook.

DeWit struggled back into control in the next three rounds but was cut in the final round of the six-round fight. Williamson’s record dropped to 5-1-2.

In another bout, Luis Santana knocked out Daryl Chambers in the third round of a welterweight bout. Santana, 27-2-1 with 21 knockouts, knocked down Chambers in the second round and finished him off at 1:28 of the third with a three-punch combination that left Chambers on the canvas for two minutes.

It was the second loss in 24 fights for Chambers.

In a 10-round junior-welterweight bout, Cubanito Perez scored a unanimous decision over Pat Jefferson. Perez (28-1) dominated every round in the one-sided fight. Jefferson fell to 23-5.

In other bouts, Rickey Womack (4-0) scored a six-round unanimous decision over David Vedder (2-2-1) in a light-heavyweight match, and Andy Minsker scored a fourth-round TKO over John Watkins in a featherweight bout.