Oct 24


Fight of the day. You know it had to be.

2008-Lucian Bute vs Librado Andrade, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Lots of mixed reviews on this one as Andrade did go to the furthest neutral corner but the count was a little cheesy. Wright looked like a bit of a homer but I’m not sure it made the difference because was still well on his feet.





1910: Abe Attell W 10 Johnny Kilbane, Kansas City. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1916: Battling Levinsky W 12 Jack Dillon, Boston. Wins World Light Heavyweight Title.

1927: Tony Canzoneri W 15 Johnny Dundee, NYC. Wins vacant World Featherweight Title.
Canzoneri “showed that he is unversed in the art of pulling his punches and making them appear real. A crowd of approximately 10,000 began calling for action in the fourth round. While Dundee, essaying a comeback after a year’s layoff was widely cheered as he entered the ring he was roundly booed at the final bell. Many of the spectators left the garden at the end of the seventh round.
(AP)

Dundee, who weighed 140 pounds the month before, entered at 125½.

1939: Henry Armstrong W 10 Jimmy Garrison, Los Angeles. Retains World Welterweight Title. Referee George Blake was the sole scoring official. Armstrong won 5 title fights in October of ‘39! Odd that the ref was the only score keeper.

1979: Ayub Kalule W 15 Masashi Kudo, Akita, Japan. Wins WBA Super Welterweight Title.

1987: Baby Sugar Rojas KO 4 Gustavo Ballas, Miami. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.

1989: Virgil Hill KO 1 James Kinchen, Bismark, ND. Retains WBA Light Heavyweight Title.
Jeff Harding KO 2 Tom Collins, Brisbane. Retains WBC Light Heavyweight Title.

1992: Tony Lopez KO 11 Joey Gamache, Portland, ME. Wins WBA Lightweight Title.

1995: Marcelo Dominguez W 12 Sergei Kobozev, Levellois-Perret, France.

1998: Sven Ottke W 12 Charles Brewer, Dusseldorf, Germany. Wins IBF Super Middleweight Title.
-Roberto Garcia KO 5 Ramon Ledon, Atlantic City. Retains IBF Super Featherweight Title.

2003: Johnny Bredahl W 12 David Guerault, Copenhagen, Denmark. Retains WBA Bantam
weight Title.

2008: Giacobbe Fragomeni Tech Dec. 8 Rudolf Kraj, Milan, Italy. Wins vacant WBC Cruiserweight Title.
-Lucian Bute W 12 Librado Andrade, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Retains IBF Super Middleweight Title.
- Chris John W 12 Hiroyuki Enoki, Tokyo. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.