This day in boxing. A look back.

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September 21

Fight of the day

1948: Marcel Cerdan vs Tony Zale



1897: Joe Gans D 15 Young Griffo, Philadelphia.

1925: Mickey Walker W 15 Dave Shade, Bronx, NY. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1926: Mushy Callahan W 10 Pinkey Mitchell, Vernon, CA. Retains World Super Lightweight Title.

1932: John Henry Lewis W 10 James J.Braddock, San Francisco.

1948: Marcel Cerdan KO 12 Tony Zale, Jersey City, NJ. Wins World Middleweight Title.

1955: Rocky Marciano KO 9 Archie Moore, Bronx, NY. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1966: Joe Frazier W 10 Oscar Bonavena, NYC.

1974: Perico Fernandez W 15 Lion Furuyama, Rome. Wins vacant WBC Super Lightweight Title.

1983: Carlos DeLeon KO 4 Yaqui Lopez, San Jose, CA. Retains WBC Cruiserweight Title.

1985: Michael Spinks W 15 Larry Holmes, Las Vegas. Wins IBF Heavyweight Title. Spinks, bulked up by a 4500-calorie a day diet and is the first Light Heavyweight Champion to capture the Heavyweight Title in his first attempt.He gained 25 pounds in 3 months under Shilstone.

-Bernard Benton W 12 Alfonzo Ratliff, Las Vegas. Wins WBC Cruiserweight Title.
-Julio Cesar Chavez W 12 Dwight Pratchett, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Super Featherweight Title.

1989: Eric Chavez KO 5 Nico Thomas, Jakarta. Wins IBF Strawweight Title.

1996: Arthur Grigorian KO 2 Gene Reed, Berlin, Germany.

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September 22

Fight of the day

1964: Emile Griffith vs Brian Curvis


And

1973: Jose Napoles vs Clyde Gray








1927: Gene Tunney W 10 Jack Dempsey 2, Chicago. Retains World Heavyweight Title. The famous Battle of the Long Count. This is interesting. Dempsey was the one that asked for the new rule to be enforced, (fighter must go to a neutral corner after a knockdown) and yet it was he that ignored it causing those precious seconds for Tunney as pointed out by @Stickgrappler

1933: Young Stribling W 10 Maxie Rosenbloom, Houston.

1938: Peter Kane W 15 Jackie Jurich, Liverpool. Wins vacant World Flyweight Title.

1960: Pone Kingpetch KO 8 Pascuel Perez, Los Angeles. Retains World Flyweight Title

1964: Emile Griffith W 15 Brian Curvis, Wembley. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1973: Jose Napoles W 15 Clyde Gray, Toronto. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1981: Lupe Pintor KO 15 Hurricane Teru, Nagoya, Japan. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title.

1983: Donald Curry KO 6 Nino LaRocca, Monte Carlo. Retains WBA Welterweight Title.

1984: Richard Sandoval W 15 Edgar Roman, Monte Carlo. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.

1988: Roger Mayweather KO 12 Gato Gonzalez, Los Angeles. Retains WBC Super Lightweight Title.

1989: Antonio Esparragoza KO 5 Fili Montoya, Mexacali. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.

1990: Tony Lopez W 12 Jorge Paez, Sacramento. Retains IBF Super Featherweight Title.

1991: Orlando Canizales W 12 Fernie Morales, Indio, CA. Retains IBF Bantamweight Title.

1998: Sugar Shane Mosley KO 5 Eduardo Morales, NYC. Retains IBF Lightweight Title.
-Angel Manfredy W 12 John Brown, NYC.
-Freddy Norwood KO 10 Koji Matsumoto, Tokyo, Japan. Because Norwood is 1 ¾ pounds over the featherweight limit, his victory vacates the title.

2001: Fernando Vargas KO 7 Shibata Flores, Las Vegas. Wins vacant WBA Super Welterweight Title.

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September 23

Fight of the day

1952: Rocky Marciano vs Jersey Joe Walcott 1



1901: James (Rube) Ferns KO 9 Frank Erne, Ft. Erie, Ontario. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1918: Benny Leonard ND 8 Ted (Kid) Lewis, Newark. Non-title fight. Lewis won the newspaper decision. Washington Post & Calgary Herald Papers as Bridgeport Telegram and Middletown Times Press reported a close win for Leonard.

1921: Johnny Buff W 15 Pete Herman, NYC. Wins World Bantamweight Title.

1926: Gene Tunney W 10 Jack Dempsey 1, Philadelphia. Wins World Heavyweight Title. Attendance: 120,557. They fought the second one a year later and almost to the day.

1929: Bat Battalino W 15 Andre Routis, Hartford. Wins World Featherweight Title.

1937: Fred Apostoli KO 10 Marcel Thil, NYC. Wins World Middleweight Title.
-Barney Ross W 15 Ceferino Garcia, NYC. Retains World Welterweight Title.
-Lou Ambers W 15 Pedro Montanez, NYC. Retains World Lightweight Title.
-Harry Jeffra W 15 Sixto Escobar, NYC. Wins World Bantamweight Title.

1940: Henry Armstrong KO 4 Phil Furr, Washington, DC.* Retains World Welterweight Title.

1948: Sugar Ray Robinson W 10 Kid Gavilan, Bronx, NY. Non-title fight.
-Ike Williams KO 10 Jesse Flores, Bronx, NY. Retains World Lightweight Title.

1952: Rocky Marciano KO 13 Jersey Joe Walcott, Philadelphia. Wins World Heavyweight Title. Widely considered one of the greatest fights of the last century. Scoring at the time off the stoppage was all for Walcott. Charlie Daggert 7-4-1, Pete Tomasco 7-5, Zack Clayton 8-4.
-Cleveland Williams KO 6 Joe McFadden, Philadelphia.

1957: Carmen Basilio W 15 Sugar Ray Robinson, Bronx, NY. Wins World Middleweight Title.

1983: Gerrie Coetzee KO 10 Michael Dokes, Richfield, OH. Wins WBA Heavyweight Title.

1995: Manuel Medina W 12 Alejandro Gonzalez, Sacramento. Wins WBC Featherweight Title.

2006: Arthur Abraham W 12 Edison Miranda, Wetzlar, Germany. Retains IBF Middleweight Title. If not for Neumann coaching, Abraham would have lost the fight

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September 24


Fight of the day

2005:Miguel Cotto vs Ricardo Torres

Real shame Cotto could not handle the dehydration to stay at 140.



1922: Battling Siki KO 6 Georges Carpentier, Paris. Wins World Light Heavyweight Title.

1923: Maxie Rosenbloom W 6 Nick Scanlon, NYC. Rosenbloom’s pro debut.

1930: Louis Kaplan W 10 Battling Battalino, Hartford, CT.

1935: Joe Louis KO 4 Max Baer, NYC.

1940: Lou Salica W 15 Georgie Pace, Bronx, NY. Wins vacant World Bantamweight Title.

1951: Archie Moore W 10 Harold Johnson, Philadelphia.

1953: Rocky Marciano KO 11 Roland La Starza, NYC. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1989: Myung Woo Yuh KO 11 Kenbun Taiho, Suanbo, S. Korea. Retains WBA Junior Flyweight Title.

1993: Juan Coggi KO 10 Guillermo Cruz, Tucuman, Argentina. Retains WBA Super Lightweight Title.
-Giovanni Parisi W 12 Antonio Rivera, Rome.

1994: Oliver McCall KO 2 Lennox Lewis, London. Wins WBC Heavyweight Title.
-Regilio Tuur W 12 Eugene Speed, Rotterdam, Holland.

1999: Keith Holmes W 12 Andrew Council, Washington, D.C. Retains WBC Middleweight Title.
-William Joppy KO 7 Julio Cesar Green, Washington, D.C. Retains WBA Middleweight Title.

2001: Masamori Tokuyama W 12 Gerry Penalosa, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.

2005: Wladimir Klitschko W 12 Samuel Peter, Atlantic City.
-Miguel Cotto KO 7 Ricardo Torres, Atlantic City. Both fighters down in the fight.

2007: Alexander Munoz W 12 Kuniyuki Aizawa, Tokyo. Retains WBA Super Flyweight Title.

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September 25

Fight of the day. Not much today vid wise. Could have went with Monzon/Griffith but instead of a middle beating up a worn out welter I went with a lightweight who jumped two divisions to fight a 47 gate keeper in his first fight at that weight.

1999: Sugar Shane Mosley KO 10 Wilfredo Rivera




1939: Billy Conn W 15 Melio Bettina, Pittsburgh. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1942: Chalky Wright W 15 Lulu Constantino, NYC. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1962: Sonny Liston KO 1 Floyd Patterson, Chicago. Wins World Heavyweight Title.

1971: Carlos Monzon KO 14 Emile Griffith, Buenos Aires. Retains World Middleweight Title.

1972: Ben Villaflor D 15 Victor Echegaray, Honolulu. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.

1979: Maurice Hope KO 7 Mike Baker, Wembley. Retains WBC Super Welterweight Title.
-Danny Lopez KO 3 Jose Caba, Los Angeles. Retains WBC Featherweight Title.

1994: Saensor Ploenchit W 12 Yong-Kang Kim, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

1995: Yuri Arbachakov W 12 Chatchai Elite-Gym, Tokyo. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.

1999: Sugar Shane Mosley KO 10 Wilfredo Rivera, Temecula, CA.
-Lehlo Ledwaba KO 5 Edison Valencia, Temecula, CA. Retains IBF Super Bantamweight Title.

2004: Glen Johnson KO 9 Roy Jones Jr., Memphis, TN. Retains IBF Light Heavyweight Title.
-Ivan Hernandez KO 8 Mark Johnson, Memphis, TN.

2005: Hozumi Hasegawa KO 7 Gerardo Martinez, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.
-Yutaka Niida Tech. Win 10 Eriberto Gejon, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBA Strawweight Title.

2009: Jean Pascal KO 10 Silvio Branco, Montreal, Canada. Retains WBC Light Heavyweight Title.

[greynotsoold]

The last minute and a half of that fight, Mosley does some nice boxing.

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September 26


Fight of the day

1972: Bob Foster vs Chris Finnegan



1929: Jack Sharkey KO 3 Tommy Loughran, NYC.

1932: Max Schmeling KO 8 Mickey Walker, Long Island.

1945: Sugar Ray Robinson W 12 Jake LaMotta Chicago. #5

1951: Sandy Saddler KO 10 Willie Pep, NYC. Retains World Featherweight Title. One of the dirtiest fights in the history of the sport. Both men were suspended by the NYSAC and Pep for life although they lifted it about 2 years later and Saddler for an indefinite period.

1964: Eder Jofre KO 7 Bernardo Caraballo, Boogota. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1970: Ken Buchanan W 15 Ismael Laguna, San Juan. Wins World Lightweight Title. Buchanan becomes the first Brit to win the lightweight title since Freddie Welsh in 1917.

1972: Bob Foster KO 14 Chris Finnegan, London. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1976: Luis Estaba KO 11 Valentin Martinez, Caracas. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

1981: Matthew Saad Muhammad KO 11 Jerry Martin, Atlantic City. Retains WBC Light Heavyweight Title.
-Juan Herrera KO 11 Luis Ibarra, Merida, MX. Wins WBA Flyweight Title.

1986: Edwin Rosario KO 2 Livingstone Bramble, Miami Beach. Wins WBA Lightweight Title.
-Hector Camacho W 12 Cornelius Boza-Edwards, Miami Beach. Retains WBC Lightweight Title.

1988: Jose Sanabria KO 10 Fabrice Benichou, Nogent-Sur Mame, France. Retains IBF Super Bantamweight Title.

1992: Aquiles Guzman W 12 Yong Kang Kim, Pohang, South Korea. Wins WBA Flyweight Title.

1995: Vuyani Bungu W 12 Laureano Ramirez, Hammanskraal, S. Africa. Retains IBF Super Bantamweight Title.

1998: Lennox Lewis W 12 Zeljko Mavrovic, Uncasville, Conn. Retains WBC Heavyweight Title.
-Herbie Hide KO 2 Willi Fischer, Norwich, England.

2009: Vitali Klitschko KO 10 Chris Arreola, Los Angeles, California. Retains WBC Heavyweight Title.

[greynotsoold]

Finnegan was a very tough man. For a guy known for his left hook, Foster had a sharp right hand as well.