Thread: This day in boxing. A look back.

Originally Posted by Master

Vaca got lucky against Lloyd Honeyghan, and the ragamuffin man got his revenge.

Vaca did get lucky, but Honeyghan from the first Vaca fight onwards had lost that spark. Even in the Vaca rematch he just threw bombs, lacking the cunning and sharpness he had shown against Curry, Bumphus, Hatcher et al.

Originally Posted by IamInuit

Oct 29


Fight of the day


1987: Charles Williams vs Bobby Czyz

A personal favourite there; Czyz was getting a lot of hype, and Williams was meant to be blown away. And he nearly was...

But as well as being a really good fight, it was at a time, where you could stick on ITV in the middle of the night and without no previous advertising you had the whole bill live in the middle of week. It had the historic (first man to win four claims of a world title at different weights) Hearns/Roldan fight as the nominal main event, which was also a fun scrap.

Originally Posted by Britkid

Originally Posted by IamInuit

Oct 29


Fight of the day


1987: Charles Williams vs Bobby Czyz

A personal favourite there; Czyz was getting a lot of hype, and Williams was meant to be blown away. And he nearly was...

But as well as being a really good fight, it was at a time, where you could stick on ITV in the middle of the night and without no previous advertising you had the whole bill live in the middle of week. It had the historic (first man to win four claims of a world title at different weights) Hearns/Roldan fight as the nominal main event, which was also a fun scrap.

I remember staying up for this card. Good old days.

Originally Posted by Britkid

Originally Posted by Master

Vaca got lucky against Lloyd Honeyghan, and the ragamuffin man got his revenge.

Vaca did get lucky, but Honeyghan from the first Vaca fight onwards had lost that spark. Even in the Vaca rematch he just threw bombs, lacking the cunning and sharpness he had shown against Curry, Bumphus, Hatcher et al.

Honeyghan broke his hand against Hatcher and was never the same fighter again.

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by Britkid

Originally Posted by Master

Vaca got lucky against Lloyd Honeyghan, and the ragamuffin man got his revenge.

Vaca did get lucky, but Honeyghan from the first Vaca fight onwards had lost that spark. Even in the Vaca rematch he just threw bombs, lacking the cunning and sharpness he had shown against Curry, Bumphus, Hatcher et al.

Honeyghan broke his hand against Hatcher and was never the same fighter again.

I remember it being said at the time that Lloyd was a pot head or started smoking weed a lot.

Originally Posted by IamInuit

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by Britkid

Originally Posted by Master

Vaca got lucky against Lloyd Honeyghan, and the ragamuffin man got his revenge.

Vaca did get lucky, but Honeyghan from the first Vaca fight onwards had lost that spark. Even in the Vaca rematch he just threw bombs, lacking the cunning and sharpness he had shown against Curry, Bumphus, Hatcher et al.

Honeyghan broke his hand against Hatcher and was never the same fighter again.

I remember it being said at the time that Lloyd was a pot head or started smoking weed a lot.

That may be true as he did like to party. Tyson loved him for that.

Oct 31


Fight of the day

1989: Khaosai Galaxy vs Kenji Matsumura






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1904: Joe Gans DQ 5 Jimmy Britt, San Francisco. Retains World Lightweight Title.


1935: John Henry Lewis W 15 Bob Olin, St. Louis. Wins World Light Heavyweight Title.


1941: Sugar Ray Robinson W 10 Fritzie Zivic, NYC.


1970: Bruno Arcari KO 3 Raymundo Dias, Genoa. Retains WBC Super lightweight Title.


1971: Koichi Wajima W 15 Carmelo Bossi, Tokyo. Wins World Super Welterweight Title.


1989: Khaosai Galaxy KO 12 Kenji Matsumura, Kobe, Japan. Retains WBA Super Flyweight Title.


1992: Lennox Lewis KO 2 Razor Ruddock, London.
-Crisanto Espana KO 8 Meldrick Taylor, London. Wins WBA Welterweight Title.
-Sung Kil Moon W 12 Greg Richardson, Seoul. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.


1998: Naseem Hamed W 12 Wayne McCullough, Atlantic City.
-Vuyani Bungu W 12 Danny Romero, Atlantic City. Retains IBF Super Bantamweight Title.
-Marco Antonio Barrera KO 3 Richie Wenton, Atlantic City.


1999: Jongkwon Baek W 12 Lakva Sim, Pusan, S. Korea. Wins WBA Super Featherweight Title.


2009: Yonnhy Perez W 12 Joseph Agbeko, Las Vegas. Wins IBF Bantamweight Title.

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by Britkid

Originally Posted by Master

Vaca got lucky against Lloyd Honeyghan, and the ragamuffin man got his revenge.

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Vaca did get lucky, but Honeyghan from the first Vaca fight onwards had lost that spark. Even in the Vaca
rematch he just threw bombs,
lacking the cunning and sharpness he had shown against Curry, Bumphus, Hatcher et al.

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Honeyghan broke his hand against
Hatcher and was never the same
fighter again.

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Personally I don't think honeyghan was ever the same after the curry fight . For me he changed his way of fighting he became much more aggressive

I remember watching the lewis/ruddock bill good fights entertaining fights and lewis hitting the big time with an explosive win over the razor

The Espana/Taylor fight was a tough one for Meldrick. He'd have been better off had he told both Duva and Benton to go away and leave him alone after about the 3rd round. One guy telling him to box, the other telling him to get close and he had no clue how to get close beyond just walking forward.

Originally Posted by greynotsoold

The Espana/Taylor fight was a tough one for Meldrick. He'd have been better off had he told both Duva and Benton to go away and leave him alone after about the 3rd round. One guy telling him to box, the other telling him to get close and he had no clue how to get close beyond just walking forward.

Espana was a decent fighter and Taylor was finished as a top fighter. It was a sad beating. Espana had a longer wing span than his own height. He married an Irish lass and settled into family life after losing to Quartey.

Nov 1



Fight of the day

1980: Jim Watt vs Sean O’Grady. I never really bought that O'grady got death threats while in Scotland along with his family although the name is most likely 5th or 6th century Irish.
Maybe it was the catholic origins but I have a hard time believing these threats were serious.
I guess it only bugged him and effected his performance when the end came cause he had a nice lead.




1886: George Dixon KO 3 Young Johnson, Halifax, N.S. Dixon’s pro debut.

1907: Frank Mantell KO 15 Honey Melody, Dayton, OH. Wins World Welterweight Title.

1908: Georges Carpentier WF 13 Ed Salmon, Mais-Laffitte, France. Carpentier’s pro debut.

1922: Mickey Walker W 15 Jack Britton, NYC. Wins World Middleweight Title.

1938: Solly Krieger W 15 Al Hostak, Seattle. Wins NBA Middleweight Title.

1940: Ken Overlin W 15 Steve Belloise, NYC. Retains World Middleweight Title.

1948: Duilio Loi W 6 Nino Frangioni, Genoa, Italy. Loi’s pro debut.

1951: Dado Marino W 15 Terry Allen, Honolulu. Retains World Flyweight Title.

1965: Ernie Terrell W 15 George Chuvalo, Toronto. Retains WBA Heavyweight Title.

1973: Bruno Acari KO 5 Jorgen Hansen, Copenhagen. Retains WBC Super Lightweight Title.

1980: Jim Watt KO 12 Sean O’Grady, Glasgow. Retains WBC Lightweight Title. Referee: Referee: Raymond Baldeyrou 109-105 | Judge Harry Gibbs 108-104 | Judge: Arthur Mercante 104-103 all for O’Grady.

1986: Khaosai Galaxy KO 5 Israel Contreras, Willemstad, Curacao. Retains WBA Super Flyweight Title.

1996: Danny Romero KO 12 Hipolito Saucedo, Indio, CA. Retains IBF Super Flyweight Title.

2002: Oscar Larios KO 1 Willie Jorrin, Sacramento, CA. Wins WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

2003: Floyd Mayweather KO 7 Phillip Ndou, Grand Rapids, MI. Retains World Lightweight Title.
-Juan Manuel Marquez Tech. Win 7 Derrick Gainer, Grand Rapids, MI. Unifies IBF & WBA Featherweight Title.

2008: Felix Sturm W 12 Sebastian Sylvester, Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Retains WBA Middleweight Title.
-Vic Darchinyan KO 9 Cristian Mijares, Carson, CA. Unifies WBC, WBA, & IBF World Super Flyweight Titles.I would have bet the house that Mijares would school Vic
-Nonito Donaire KO 6 Moruti Mthalane, Las Vegas. Retains IBF Flyweight Title.

I would have loved to have seen Solly Krieger and Al Hostak fight.

Nov 2


Fight of the day


2002: Marco Antonio Barrera vs Johnny Tapia



1900:Terry McGovern KO 7 Joe Bernstein, Louisville. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1903: Joe Gans ND 6 Jack Blackburn, Baltimore. Blackburn would go on to train Joe Louis.

1915: Ted (Kid) Lewis W 12 Milburn Saylor, Boston. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1984: Carlos Santos W 15 Mark Medal, NYC. Wins IBF Super Welterweight Title.

1988: Brian Mitchell W 12 Jim McDonnell, Southwark, England. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.

1996: (Big) George Foreman W 12 Crawford Grimsley, Tokyo.

-Luisito Espinosa KO 8 Nobutoshi Hiranaka, Fukuoka, Japan. Retains WBC Featherweight Title.

2002: Marco Antonio Barrera W 12 Johnny Tapia, Las Vegas. Retains World Featherweight Title.

2008: Ulises Solis W 12 Nerys Espinoza, Aguacalientes, Mexico. Retains IBF Junior Flyweight Title.

MAB and Barrera was like friends fighting - sparring.