This day in boxing. A look back.

[IamInuit]

Was it Sammy Angott or Sammy Mandell that was trained by Jack Blackburn, the trainer of Joe Louis?

Mandell as well as Godfrey and Walcott. I love his nic....."old hockbones"

Some, himself included claim he fought over 300 times. Had some close fights with Greb, Langford and Gans.

[IamInuit]

July 22


Fight of the Day
2006: Carlos Baldomir vs Arturo Gatti Atlantic City



1931: Mickey Walker D 15 Jack Sharkey, Brooklyn.

1955: Sugar Ray Robinson W 10 Rocky Castellani, San Francisco. Rocky was one of these guys that could just not get over the hump. He fought Ray tough in this one flooring him but losing the split.

1963: Sonny Liston KO 1 Floyd Patterson, Las Vegas. Retains world heavyweight title.

1987: Rene Arredondo KO 6 Tsuyoshi Hamada, Tokyo. Regains WBC super-lightweight title.

1995: Nate Miller KO 8 Orlin Norris, England. Wins WBA cruiserweight title.
-Nigel Benn KO 8 Vincenzo Nardiello, London. Retains WBC super-middleweight title.
-Alimi Goitia KO 4 Hyung Chul Lee, Seoul, S. Korea. Wins WBA super-flyweight title.

2000: Felix Trinidad KO 3 Mamadou Thiam, Miami. Retains WBA Super Welterweight Title.
-Felix Machado W 12 Julio Gamboa, Miami, FL. Wins vacant IBF Super Flyweight Title.

2006: Carlos Baldomir KO 9 Arturo Gatti, Atlantic City. Retains World Welterweight Title.
-Nobuo Nashiro KO 10 Martin Castillo, Osaka, Japan. Wins WBA Super Flyweight Title.

[Master]

Gatti v Baldimor was sad to see.

[greynotsoold]

I remember Rene Arredondo pretty well, LA fighter. At least he fought there a lot. The guy Trinidad fought was a southpaw and I believe the last punch was a right to the solar plexus, which you don't see much any more.
No, it wasn't that guy. Wrong fight. My memory is slipping.

[IamInuit]

July 23

Fight of the Day
1988: Tony Lopez vs Rocky Lockridge. The first fight of the pair and fight of the year in 1988.



1925: Charley Phil Rosenberg KO 4 Eddie Shea, Bronx, NY. Retains world bantamweight title.

1931: Bat Battalino W 10 Freddie Miller, Cincinnati. Retains world featherweight title.

1958: Joe Brown W 15 Kenny Lane, Houston. Retains world lightweight title. Lane is the first southpaw to challenge for the lightweight title since Lew Tendler 35-years prior.

1988: Tony Lopez W 12 Rocky Lockridge, Sacramento. Wins IBF super-featherweight title.

1990: Humberto Gonzalez KO 5 Jung Keun Lim, Inglewood. Retains WBC junior-flyweight title.

1994: Virgil Hill W 12 Frank Tate, Bismark, ND. Retains WBA light-heavyweight title.
-Mike McCallum W 12 Jeff Harding, Bismark, ND. Wins WBC light heavyweight title.
-Al Cole W 12 Nate Miller, Bismark, ND. Retains IBF cruiserweight title.

2010: Beibut Shumenov W 12 Vyacheslav Uzelkov, Lemoore, California. Retains WBA Light Heavyweight Title.

2011: Amir Khan KO 5 Zab Judah, Las Vegas. Unifies WBA & IBF Super Lightweight Title.
-Orlando Salido KO 11 Kenichi Yamaguchi, Ciudad Obregon, Mexico.

[IamInuit]

July 24

Fight of the day
1982: Ray Mancini vs Ernesto Espana



1902: Joe Gans KO 15 Rufe Turner, Oakland. Retains world lightweight title.

1925: Tony Canzoneri KO 1 Jack Gardner, Rockaway, NY. Canzoneri’s pro debut.

1968: Jose Legra KO 5 Howard Winstone, Porthcawl. Wins vacant WBC featherweight title.

1982: Freddie Castillo W 15 Prudencio Cardona, Merida, MX. Wins WBC flyweight title.
-Ray Mancini KO 6 Ernesto Espana, Warren, OH. Retains WBA lightweight title.

1986: Tsuyoshi Hamada KO 1 Rene Arredondo, Tokyo. Wins WBC super-lightweight title.

1988: Yong Kang Kim W 12 Sot Chitalada, Pohang, S. Korea. Wins WBC flyweight title.

1993: Charles Murray W 12 Juan LaPorte, Atlantic City. Retains IBF super-lightweight title.

1994: Zach Padilla KO 10 Juan LaPorte, Los Angeles.

1999: James Page KO 11 Freddie Pendleton, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Welterweight Title
-Terron Millett KO 12 Virgil McClendon, Las Vegas. Retains IBF super-lightweight title.

2004: Arturo Gatti KO 2 Leonard Dorin, Atlantic City.
-Jesse James Leija W 10 Francisco Bojado, Atlantic City. Minor upset. Leija down in round two.
-In Jin Chi KO 10 Eiichi Sugama, Seoul, South Korea. Retains WBC Featherweight Title.

[IamInuit]

July 25

Fight of the day
1981: Jeff Chandler vs Julian Solis 2


1902: James J. Jefferies KO 8 Bob Fitzsimmons, San Francisco. Retains world heavyweight title.

1921: Pete Herman W 15 Joe Lynch, Brooklyn. Wins world bantamweight title.

1929: Jackie Fields WF 2 Joe Dundee, Detroit. Retains world welterweight title.

1953: Carmen Basilio D 12 Billy Graham, Syracuse. Retains NY State welterweight title.

1981: Jeff Chandler KO 7 Julian Solis, Atlantic City. Retains WBA bantamweight title.

1987: Miguel Lora KO 4 Antonio Avelar, Key Biscayne, FL. Retains WBC bantamweight title.

2009: Paulus Moses W 12 Takehiro Shimada, Windhoek, Namibia. Retains WBA Lightweight title.

Giovanni Segura KO 8 Juanito Rubillar, Nuero Vallarta, Mexico. Retains WBA Light Flyweight title.

[Ron Swanson]

Watching these older fights again I wonder why did back muscles disappear? Old timers backs were shredded.

[Master]

Watching these older fights again I wonder why did back muscles disappear? Old timers backs were shredded.

Natural training methods?