in an exhibition. Hollandersky would become the Panamanian Heavyweight Champion in May 1913. On July 10, 1899, he defeated Otto Sieloff at the Coney Island Athletic Club in Brooklyn, New York in a ninth-round technical knockout. The Dollar Weekly News wrote that Matthews "proved too much for his opponent, whom he allowed to be the aggressor while the bout lasted." Matthew's blows were stronger in the first two rounds, though Sieloff landed some blows in the second, but they may have lacked the force of Matthew's stiff lefts and right crosses to the jaw. The bout ended 1:30 into the ninth when Matthews landed a heavy right uppercut to Sieloff's jaw. On September 14, 1899, Matthews defeated Bobby Dobbs in a twenty-fifth round disqualification at the Coney Island Athletic Club in Brooklyn, New York. Dobbs was an exceptional black welterweight who took the 144 pound British Welterweight Championship in 1898, but never was given the opportunity to contend for the World Welterweight championship in the United States. On December 2, 1899, Matthews defeated another exceptional Black boxer, welterweight Hugh McWinters, in a twenty-round decision at the Pelican Club in Brooklyn. On February 16, 1900, Matthews defeated Kid McPartland at the Broadway Athletic Club in New York in a seventeenth-round technical knockout. In the one sided affair, McPartland was down twice in the second, and subsequently again in the fourth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and sixteenth, before the referee stopped the fight after the final knockdown twenty-four seconds into the seventeenth round. In the modern era the fight would have been stopped in the third knockdown. On March 27, 1899, he defeated "Philadelphia" Tommy Ryan in a twenty rounds points decision at the Youngstown Athletic Club in Youngstown, Ohio, though Ryan had a three-inch advantage in reach. Matthews was down in the sixth from a left to the jaw. Taking World Welterweight Championship in April 1900, from Billy Smith On April 17, 1900 he took the World Welterweight Championship from Mysterious Billy Smith at the Broadway Athletic Club in New York, knocking him out only twenty eight seconds into the 19th round, before a crowd of 4,000. The final fall to the mat occurred after a solid right hand to the jaw of Smith. Matthews seemed to have the upper hand from the first round, landing more blows, though possibly lacking the force of the blows dealt by Smith. Matthews was down twice