July 15
Fight of the day
2011: Pawel Wolak vs Delvin Rodriguez, NYC.
1930: Bat Battalino KO 5 Ignacio Fernandez, Hartford. Retains world featherweight title.
1931: Kid Chocolate KO 7 Benny Bass, Philadelphia. Wins world super-featherweight title. First Cuban world champ.
1966: Horacio Accavallo W 15 Hiroyuki Ebihara, Buenos Aires. Retains WBA flyweight title.
1970: Emile Griffith W 10 Dick Tiger, NYC. Tiger’s last fight. He waited four years for a chance to get even but at age 40 and close to a year off, he had nothing left to give.
1975: Saensak Muangsurin KO 8 Perico Fernandez, Bangkok. Wins WBC super-lightweight title. At 3 and 0 this X Thai boxer becomes the quickest boxer to acquire a title.
1984: Billy Costello W 12 Ronnie Shields, Kingston, NY. Retains WBC super-lightweight title.
1987: Louie Espinosa KO 15 Manuel Vilchez, Phoenix. Retains WBA super-bantamweight title.
1989: Evander Holyfield KO 2 Adilson Rodriguez, Lake Tahoe.
-Gianfranco Rosi W 12 Darrin Van Horn, Atlantic City. Wins IBF super-welterweight title.
1992: Genaro Hernandez W 12 Masuaki Takeda, Tokyo. Retains WBA super-featherweight title.
1995: Saman Sorjaturong KO 7 Humberto Gonzalez, Inglewood. Wins IBF/WBC junior-flyweight title.
2000: Lennox Lewis KO 2 Frans Botha, London. Retains World Heavyweight Title.
2001: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam KO 5 Hayato Asai, Nagoya, Japan. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.
2004: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam KO 5 Luis Angel Martinez, Khonkaen, Thailand. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.
2006: Javier Castijello KO 10 Felix Sturm, Hamburg, Germany. Wins WBA Middleweight Title.
-Sugar Shane Mosley KO 6 Fernando Vargas, Las Vegas.
-Juan Diaz KO 9 Randy Suico, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Lightweight Title.
-Wladimir Sidorenko W 12 Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, Hamburg, Germany. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.
2011: Pawel Wolak D 10 Delvin Rodriguez, NYC.
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