Oct 10


Fight of the day

1962: Fighting Harada vs Pone Kingpetch







1912: Sam Langford KO 11 Sam McVey, Perth, Australia.


1930: Jackie (Kid) Berg W 10 Billy Petrolle, NYC. Non-title fight.


1962: Fighting Harada KO 11 Pone Kingpetch, Tokyo. Wins World flyweight Title.


1971: Bruno Arcari KO 10 Domingo Corpas, Genoa. Retains WBC Super Lightweight Title.
-Ricardo Arredondo KO 10 Yoshiaki Numata, Sendai, Japan. Wins WBC Super Featherweight Title.


1976: Royal Kobayashi, KO 8 Rigoberto Riasco, Tokyo. Wins WBC Super Bantamweight Title.
-Yoko Gushiken KO 7 Juan Guzman, Kofu, Japan.
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1982: Katsuo Tokashiki W 15 Sung Nam Kim, Tokyo. Retains WBA Junior Flyweight Title.


1987: Frank Tate W 15 Michael Olajide, Las Vegas. Wins vacant IBF Middleweight Title.
-Jose Luis Ramirez KO 5 Cornelius Boza Edwards, Paris. Retains WBC Lightweight Title.


1990: Dennis Andries KO 4 Sergio Merani, London. Retains WBC Light Heavyweight Title.


1992: Jorge Eliecer Julio W 12 Eddie Cook, Cartagena. Wins WBA Bantamweight Title.


1998: James Page KO 2 Andrei Pestriav, Paris. Wins vacant WBA Welterweight Title.
-Sharmba Mitchell W 12 Khalid Rahilou, Paris. Wins WBA Super Lightweight Title.


2003: Silvio Branco KO 11 Mehdi Sahnoune, Marseille, France. Wins WBA Light Heavyweight Title.


2005: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam Tech. Win 7 Daisuke Naito, Tokyo. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.


2009: Yuriorkis Gamboa KO 4 Whyber Garcia, NYC. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.
-Juan Carlos Salgado KO 1 Jorge Linares, Tokyo. Wins WBA Super Featherweight Title.
-Juan Manuel Lopez W 12 Rogers Mtagwa, NYC.
-Toshiaka Nishioka KO 3 Ivan Hernandez, Tokyo. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.