the following month, arizmendi defeated newsboy brown to claim the california world featherweight title on october 18, 1932. the associated press wrote that brown won only one round and was on the verge of being knocked out several times before the los angeles crowd of 7,000. arizmendi nearly toppled brown with a left hook in the third, but slowed his pace some in the fourth through seventh when brown countered with short lefts, and rights to the body.