page_title: Johnny Coulon
section_title: Losing the World Bantamweight Title
hierarchical_section_title: Johnny Coulon / Boxing career and taking the World Bantamweight Title / Losing the World Bantamweight Title
caption_attribution_description: English: Kid Williams (1893-1963), born John Gutenko in Copenhagen, Denmark, was bantamweight world champion in 1914.
context_page_description: John Frederic Coulon was the World Bantamweight Champion from March 6, 1910, when he wrested the crown from England's Jim Kendrick, until June 3, 1914, when he was defeated by Kid Williams in Vernon, California.
  As there was some dispute over the sanctioning of the World Bantamweight Title by different boxing associations, other sources, particularly many American newspapers of the day, and the World Boxing Association, which became the National Boxing Association, recognized his first taking the bantamweight world championship on February 26, 1911, when he defeated Frankie Conley in twenty rounds in New Orleans, Louisiana.
context_section_description: Coulon indisputedly lost the World Bantamweight Title when Kid Williams stopped him in a lop-sided victory ending in a third-round knockout on June 9, 1914 in Vernon, California.  Coulon made "only a feeble resistance" in the June title bout with Williams, before a crowd of 10,700, and as he lost the bout in less than nine minutes of total fighting, New York's Evening World, wrote that "he slid into obscurity with barely a protest."
  Coulon served in the United States Army during World War I, often instructing soldiers on how to fight. He fought no well known professional bouts from May 1917 though March 1920, while America was at war. He boxed twice in France after his service stint with Charles Ledoux and Emile Juliard in 1920, and retired from the ring that year with a total record including newspaper decisions of 67 wins, 11 losses, 12 draws, with 1 no-contest.
caption: Kid Williams, World Bantamweight Champion Contender
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