 The New Orleans "Times-Picayune" suspected McMahon may have had such a difficult time in the first round that he chose to take the count in the second rather than face any more rounds with Brennan.Brennan fought a ten-round newspaper decision draw with McMahon in LaSalle, Illinois on June 18, 1918.On November 5, 1917, Brennan won a ten-round newspaper decision of the "Rochester Herald" in Rochester, New York.