This day in boxing. A look back.

[BBoxing]

Moore offered the rematch to Durelle right after their first fight while Moore was doing the post-fight interview himself. He told Durelle "you know nobody hit me that hard, your performance is something to be proud"

But Durelle later explained that Moo're team pushed the date of the fight till they were sure Durelle (a simple man, a fisherman) over worked himself in camp and started to miss his family... Durelle was never in it the night of the rematch.

Durelle was all power and heart. A simple man, living a simple life, but possessing brute talent that made him a freak of nature. Even at a late age, a few years before his death, he would still declare "My head just won't give up, I still can do it"

[IamInuit]

August 13

Fight of the day
1983: Milton McCrory vs Colin Jones. Milton is a forgotten fighter. He would have been hell on earth for any welter today.



1900: James Ferns KO 15 Eddie Connolly, Brooklyn. Wins World Welterweight Title. Some say it happened on the 12th and others the 13th. Dates are not written in stone at the turn of the 20th century.

1903: Frankie Neil KO 2 Harry Forbes, San Francisco. Wins World Bantamweight Title.

1983: Milton McCrory W 12 Colin Jones, Las Vegas. Wins vacant WBC Welterweight Title.

1993: Juan Coggi W 12 Jose Barboza, Buenos Aires. Retains WBA Super Lightweight Title.

1994: Riddick Bowe NC 4 Buster Mathis Jr. Las Vegas. Bowe was lucky he was not dq’d in this one.

1995: Eloy Rojas W 12 Nobutoshi Hiranaka, Tagawa, Japan. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.

1996: Keiji Yamaguchi W 12 Carlos Murillo, Osaka. Japan. Retains WBA Junior Flyweight Title.

1999: Mark Johnson W tech. dec. 8 Jorge Lacierva, Ledyard, CT. Retains IBF Super Flyweight Title.

2005: Hassim Rahman W 12 Monte Barrett, Chicago.
-Ricardo Mayorga W 12 Michelle Piccirillo, Chicago. Wins WBC Super Welterweight Title.
-Alejandro Garcia W 12 Luca Messi, Chicago. Retains WBA Super Welterweight Title.
-Luis Collazo KO 8 Miguel Angel Gonzalez, Chicago. Retains WBA Welterweight Title.

[IamInuit]

August 14

Fight of the day

1999: Steve Johnston vs Angel Manfredy



1903: James J. Jeffries KO 10 James J. Corbett, San Francisco. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1920: Sam Langford ND 10 Sam McVey, East Chicago, IN. These two fought 15 times and mainly because the had to. Before the Murders Row there was Langford, McVey or (McVea), Jeanette and Wills who like the Row were frozen out by the establishment

1922: Dave Rosenberg W 15 Phil Krug, Bronx, NY. Wins vacant New York World Middleweight Title.

1942: Charley Burley KO 9 Holman Williams, New Orleans. Speaking of Murderers Row these two were members and they fought each other 7 times

1973: Koichi Wajima KO 13 Silvani Bertini, Sapporo. Retains World Super Welterweight Title.

1982: Santos Laciar W 15 Betulio Gonzalez, Maracaibo. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

1988: Sung Kil Moon TD 6 Kaokor Galaxy, Seoul. Wins WBA Bantamweight Title.

1989: Michael Nunn W 12 Iran Barkley, Reno. Retains IBF Middleweight Title.

1990: Orlando Canizales KO 5 Eddie Rangel, Saratoga Springs, NY. Retains IBF Bantamweight Title.

1999: Steve Johnston W 12 Angel Manfredy, Ledyard, CT. Retains WBC Lightweight Title.

2010: Jean Pascal W TD 11 Chad Dawson, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Wins World Light Heavyweight
Miguel Vazquez W 12 Ji Hoon Kim, Laredo, Texas. Wins vacant IBF Lightweight Title.

[IamInuit]

August 15


Fight of the day

1987: Evander Holyfield vs Ossie Ocasio



1911: Sam Langford KO 5 Philadelphia Jack O’Brien, NYC.

1922: Johnny Dundee KO 9 Danny Frush, Brooklyn. Wins vacant New York World Featherweight Title.

1950: Ezzard Charles KO 14 Freddie Beshore, Buffalo. Retains NBA Heavyweight Title.

1951: Joe Louis W 10 Jimmy Bivins, Baltimore.

1961: Gene Fullmer W 15 Florentino Fernandez, Ogden, UT. Retains NBA Middleweight Title.

1966: Jose Torres W 15 Eddie Cotton, Las Vegas. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1981: Sergio Palma KO 12 Ricardo Cardona, Buenos Aires. Retains WBA Super Bantamweight Title.
-Hilario Zapata W 15 German Torres, Panama City. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

1986: Jimmy Paul W 15 Darryll Tyson, Detroit. Retains IBF Lightweight Title.

1987: Evander Holyfield KO 11 Ossie Ocasio, St. Tropez, France. Retains WBA/IBF Cruiserweight Title.
-Louie Espinoza KO 9 Mike Ayala, San Antonio. Retains WBA Super Bantamweight Title.
-Fidel Bassa D 15 Hilario Zapata, Panama City. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

1991: Marcos Villasana W 12 Ricardo Cepeda, Marbella, Spain. Retains WBC Featherweight Title.

1998: Luisito Espinosa W tech. dec. 11 Juan Carlos Ramirez, El Paso. Retains WBC Featherweight Title.

2003: Jesus Chavez W 12 Sirimongkol Singmanassak, Austin, TX. Wins WBC Super Featherweight Title.

2009: Gabriel Campillo W 12 Beibut Shumenov, Astana, Kazakstan. Retains WBA Light Heavyweight Title.

[IamInuit]

August 16


Fight of the day

There isn’t one. Searched high and low for Ortiz/Laguna 3. Not even Greens bogus DQ loss to Marcus Ottke I mean Beyer was available.

1943: Phil Terranova KO 8 Jackie Callura, New Orleans. Wins NBA Featherweight Title.

1965: Joe Frazier KO 1 Woody Goss, Philadelphia. Frazier’s pro debut.

1967: Carlos Ortiz W 15 Ismael Laguna, Flushing, NY. Retains World Lightweight Title.

1975: Rodrigo Valdez W 15 Rudy Robles, Cartegena. Retains WBC Middleweight Title.

1996: Frankie Randall W 12 Juan Coggi, Villa Ballester, Argentina. Regains WBA Super Lightweight Title.

1997: Marcelo Dominguez W 12 Akim Tafer, Cannes, France. Retains WBC Cruiserweight Title.
-Vuyani Bungu W 12 Enrique Jupiter, Hammanskraal, South Africa. Retains IBF Super Bantamweight Title.

2003: Markus Beyer W disq. 5 Danny Green, Nurnberg, Germany. Retains WBC Super Middleweight Title.

[IamInuit]

August 17

Fight of the day

1990: Loreto Garza vs Juan Coggi





1914: Jack Dempsey D 6 Young Herman, Ramona, CO. Dempsey’s pro debut.

1938: Henry Armstrong W 15 Lou Ambers, NYC. Wins World Lightweight Title. What this man accomplished here is truly staggering.
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9/29/37. Knocks out Pete Sarron and wins world featherweight title.
5/31/38. Beats Barney Ross over 12 and wins world welterweight title. It needs to be said that he also only weighed in at 133 and some say he was as low as 130.
8/17/38. see above.
He did that in ten months. It was well known at the time that he had no intentions of returning back to 126 but he is still the only man to hold 3 weight classes by the balls at the same time.

-Flash Elorde KO 1 Harold Gomes, San Francisco. Retains World Super Featherweight Title.

1962: Davey Moore KO 2 Olli Maeki, Helsinki. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1983: Roger Mayweather KO 1 Benedicto Villablanca, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.

1990: Loreto Garza W 12 Juan Coggi, Nice. Wins WBA Super Lightweight Title.
-Paul Banke KO 12 Ki Jun Lee, Seoul. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

1991: Darrin Van Horn KO 3 John Jarvis, Irvine, CA. Retains IBF Super Middleweight Title.
-Terry Norris KO 1 Brett Lally, San Diego. Retains WBC Super Welterweight Title.

1996: Johnny Tapia W 12 Hugo Soto, Albuquerque, NM.

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Aug 18

Fight of the day
Matthew Saad Muhammad vs John Conteh



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSZu_PfIYpM



1908: Stanley Ketchel KO 2 Joe Thomas, San Francisco. Retains World Middleweight Title.

1924: Steve Sullivan W 10 Johnny Dundee, Brooklyn. Wins World Super Featherweight Title.

1930: Battling Battalino W 10 Charles Taylor, Hartford, CT.

1958: Floyd Patterson KO 13 Roy Harris, Los Angeles. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1973: Romeo Anaya KO 3 Enrique Pinder, Inglewood. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1975: Bennie Briscoe W 10 Eddie Gregory, Philadelphia. Razor thin decision.

1979: Matthew Saad Muhammad W 15 John Conteh, Atlantic City. Retains WBC Light Heavyweight Title.

1982: Wilfredo Gomez KO 8 Roberto Rubaldino, San Juan. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

1984: Jung Koo Chang KO 9 Katsuo Tokashiki, Pohang, South Korea. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.
-Francisco Quiroz KO 2 Victor Sierra, Panama City. Retains WBA Junior Flyweight Title.

1985: Lupe Pintor W 12 Juan Meza, Mexico City. Wins WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

2007: Arthur Abraham KO 11 Khoren Gevor, Berlin, Germany. Retains IBF Middleweight Title.