This day in boxing. A look back.

[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.

[IamInuit]

July 26

Fight of the day
Matthew Saad Muhammad vs Marvin Johnson



1923: Johnny Dundee W 15 Eugene Criqui, NYC. Wins world featherweight title.

1928: Gene Tunney KO 11 Tom Heeney, NYC. Retains world heavyweight title. Tunneys’ final fight.
-Billy Petrolle D 10 Jack (Kid) Berg, Chicago.

1933: Barney Ross KO 6 Johnny Farr, Kansas City. World super-lightweight title.

1938: Al Hostak KO 1 Freddie Steele, Seattle. Wins NBA middleweight title.

1948: Freddie Mills W 15 Gus Lesnevich, London. Wins world light-heavyweight title.

1967: Chartchai Chionoi KO 3 Puntip Keosuriya, Bangkok. Retains WBC flyweight title.

1971: Muhammad Ali KO 12 Jimmy Ellis, Houston. Wins vacant NABF heavyweight title.

1977: Matthew Saad Muhammad KO 12 Marvin Johnson, Philadelphia. Wins vacant NABF light heavyweight title.

1978: Vilomar Fernandez W 10 Alexis Arguello, NYC. Non-title fight. Upset of the year!

1981: Lupe Pintor KO 8 Jovito Rengifo, Las Vegas. Retains WBC bantamweight title.

1986: Mike Tyson KO 1 Marvis Frazier, Glen Falls, NY.

1987: Chong Pal Park KO 4 Emmanuel Otti, Kwangiu, S. Korea. Retains IBF super-middleweight title.
-Antonio Esparragoza KO 10 Pascual Aranda, Houston. Retains WBA featherweight title.

1997: Antonio Cermeno KO 12 Yuichi Kasai, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBA super-bantamweight title.
-Stevie Johnston W 12 Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBC lightweight title.

1998: Mark Johnson W 12 Luis Rolon, Verona, NY. Retains IBF flyweight title.
-Satoshi Iida W 12 Joma Gamboa, Nagoya, Japan. Retains WBA super-flyweight title.

2003: Manny Pacquiao KO 3 Emmanuel Lucero, Los Angeles. Retains IBF Super Bantamweight title
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2008: Antonio Margarito KO 11 Miguel Cotto, Las Vegas. Wins WBA Welterweight title.

2014: Gennady Golovkin KO 3 Daniel Geale , NY Madison Square Gardens. Reatains WBA/IBO Middleweight title

[IamInuit]

July 27

Fight of the day
1991:Pernell Whitaker vs Poli Diaz, Norfolk. WBC/IBF lightweight title.


1918: Jack Dempsey KO 1 Fred Fulton, Harrison, NJ. 23 seconds.

1921: Johnny Wilson WF 7 William Bryan Downey, Cleveland. Retains world middleweight title.

1922: Benny Leonard ND 12 Lew Tendler, Jersey City, NJ.

1937: Henry Armstrong KO 4 Benny Bass, Philadelphia.

1964: Flash Elorde KO 12 Teruo Kosaka, Tokyo. Retains world super-featherweight title.

1985: Dwight Qawi KO 11 Piet Crous, Sun City, SA. Wins WBA cruiserweight title.

1990: Massimilliano Duran WF 11 Carlos DeLeon, Capo d’Orlando, Italy. Wins WBC cruiserweight title.

1991: Mauro Galvano W 12 Ron Essett, Capo d’Orlando, Italy. Retains WBC super-middleweight title.
-Pernell Whitaker W 12 Poli Diaz, Norfolk. Retains WBC/IBF lightweight title.

1992: Manuel Medina KO 10 Fabrizio Cappai, Capo d’Orlando, Italy. Retains IBF featherweight title.
-Victor Rabanales KO 4 Luis Alberto Campo, Tuxtla, Mexico. Retains WBC interim bantamweight title.

2002: John Ruiz W disq. 10 Kirk Johnson, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Heavyweight Title.
-Byron Mitchell KO 4 Julio Cesar Green, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Super Middleweight Title.
-Tim Austin KO 10 Adan Vargas, Las Vegas. Retains IBF Bantamweight 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?