July 4

Fight of the day
1982: Aaron Pryor vs Akio Kameda


1903: George Gardner KO 12 Jack Root, Ft. Erie, Ontario. Wins world light-heavyweight title.
-Joe Gans KO 5 Buddy King, Butte, MT. Retains world lightweight title.

1906: Abe Attell W 20 Frankie Neil, Los Angeles. Retains world featherweight title.

1907: Tommy Burns KO 1 Bill Squires, Colma, CA. Retains world heavyweight title.

1908: Battling Nelson KO 17 Joe Gans, Colma, CA. Wins world lightweight title.

Packey McFarland D 25 Freddie Welsh, Los Angeles.

1910: Jack Johnson KO 15 James J. Jefferies, Reno. Retains world heavyweight title. Riots and lynchings commenced shortly after and 11 people were killed.

1911: Ad Wolgast KO 13 Owen Moran, San Francisco. Retains world lightweight title.

1912: Jack Johnson WF 9 Jim Flynn, Las Vegas, New Mexico. Retains world heavyweight title.

Ad Wolgast KO 13 Joe Rivers, Vernon, CA. Retains world lightweight title.

1913: Willie Ritchie KO 11 Joe Rivers, San Francisco. Retains world lightweight title.

1916: Freddie Welsh WF 11 Ad Wolgast, Denver. Retains world lightweight title.

1919: Jack Dempsey KO 4 Jess Willard, Toledo, OH. Wins world heavyweight title.

Harry Wills W 8 Sam Langford, St. Louis.

1923: Jack Dempsey W 15 Tommy Gibbons, Shelby, MT. Retains world heavyweight title. After Doc Kearns (Dempsey’s manager) collected a little more than $200,000 of the $300,000 Dempsey was guaranteed, the two got the hell out of town, Gibbons went unpaid, and the town of Shelby went bankrupt.

1927: Tiger Flowers D 10 Maxie Rosenbloom, Chicago.

1932: Marcel Thil W 15 Len Harvey, London. Retains world middleweight title.

1934: Joe Louis KO 1 Jack Kracken, Chicago. Louis’ pro debut.

1948: Manuel Ortiz KO 8 Memo Valero, Baja, CA. Retains world bantamweight title.

1967: Fighting Harada W 15 Bernardo Caraballo, Tokyo. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1982: Aaron Pryor KO 6 Akio Kameda, Cincinnati. Retains WBA super-lightweight title.
-Chul Ho Kim D 15 Raul Valdez, Taejon, S. Korea. Retains WBC super-flyweight title.

1987: Juan Coggi KO 3 Patrizio Oliva, Ribera, Italy. Wins WBA super-lightweight title.
-Kelvin Seabrooks KO 9 Thierry Jacob, Calais, France. Retains IBF bantamweight title.

1992: Sung Kil Moon KO 8 Armando Salazar, Seoul. Retains WBC super-flyweight title.

1995: Mblulelo Botile W 12 Sam Stewart, Hammanskraal. SA. Retains IBF bantamweight title.

1997: Sirimongkol Singmanassuk W 12 Victor Rabanales, Bangkok. Retains WBC bantamweight title.

1998: Zolani Petelo KO 7 Carmelo Caceres, Hammanskraal, SA. Retains IBF strawweight title.

2003: Mahyar Monshipour KO 12 Salim Medjkoune, Poitiers, France. Wins WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

2009: Anselmo Moreno W 12 Mahyar Monshipour, Poitiers, France. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.