This day in boxing. A look back.

[Master]

Norris losing to the worst fighter ever again and again.

Pryor was a tornado but Arguello was a legend to take that fight.

[IamInuit]

Nov 13


Fight of the day

1992: Riddick Bowe vs Evander Holyfield 1



1886: John L. Sullivan KO 3 Paddy Ryan, San Francisco.

1910: Abe Attell D 15 Frankie Conley, McDonoghville, LA. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1925: Harry Greb W 15 Tony Marullo, New Orleans. Retains World Middleweight Title.

1953: Kid Gavilan W 15 Johnny Bratten, Chicago. Retains World Welterweight Title.
-Jimmy Carruthers W 15 Pappy Gault, Sydney. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1961: Davey Moore W 15 Kazuo Yakayama, Tokyo. Retains world Featherweight Title.

1965: Carlos Ortiz W 15 Ismael Laguna, San Juan. Regains World Lightweight Title.

1974: Rodrigo Valdez KO 11 Gratien Tonna, Paris. Retains WBC Middleweight Title.

1975: Elisha Obed KO 11 Miguel de Oliveira, Paris. Wins WBC Super Welterweight Title.

1976: Danny (Little Red) Lopez W 15 David Kotey, Accra. Wins WBC Featherweight Title.
-Carlos Zarate KO 4 Waruinge Nakayama, Culiacan, Mexico. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title.

1982: Mike McCallum KO 7 Ayub Kalule, Atlantic City. McCallum moves his record to 17-0 (16).
-Ray Mancini KO 14 Duk Koo Kim, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Lightweight Title. Kim passed 5 days after the fight.
-Leonardo Cruz KO 8 Benito Badilla, San Juan. Retains WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

1991: Paul Hodkinson W 12 Marcos Villasana, Belfast. Wins WBC Featherweight Title.

1992: Riddick Bowe W 12 Evander Holyfield, Las Vegas. Wins World Heavyweight Title. First of three battles for these two.

1993: Jose Luis Bueno W 12 Sung-Il Moon, Seoul. Wins WBC Super Flyweight Title.

1998: Ricardo Lopez W 12 Rosendo Alvarez, Las Vegas. Retains WBC/wins WBA Strawweight Title.

1999: Lennox Lewis W 12 Evander Holyfield, Las Vegas. Retains (unifies) World Heavyweight Title.
-Fabrice Tiozzo KO 7 Ken Murphy, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Cruiserweight Title.
-Sharmba Mitchell W 12 Elio Ortiz, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Super Lightweight Title.
-Gustavo Serrano KO 10 Stefano Zoff, Las Vegas. Wins WBA Lightweight Title.
-Paul Ingle W 12 Manuel Medina, Hull, England. Wins IBF Featherweight Title.

2004: Chris Byrd W 12 Jameel McCline, NYC. Retains IBF Heavyweight Title.
-John Ruiz W 12 Andrew Golota, NYC. Retains WBA Heavyweight Title.
-Larry Donald W 12 Evander Holyfield, NYC.

2006: Eagle Kyowa W 12 Lorenzo Trejo, Tokyo. Retains WBC Strawweight Title.

[Master]

Wow watching Bowe v Holyfield again was magic.

[IamInuit]

Nov 14

Fight of the day-Looked for Chandler/Solis 1 to no avail then Pong/Hussein and no dice. Man the little guys really get boned on the coverage. If you don't happen to catch them live on a broadcast they can be gone forever. I'm sure everyone has seen Manny/Cotto a gazillion times especially the small crew that pay attention to this thread.


1998: Roy Jones Jr. vs Otis Grant




1888: Joe Choynski KO 2 George W Bush, San Francisco. Choynski’s pro debut. The W is a joke.

1916: Jack Britton D 12 Ted (Kid) Lewis, Boston. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1917: Mike O’Dowd KO 6 Al McCoy, Brooklyn. Wins World Middleweight Title.

1930: Tony Canzoneri KO 1 Al Singer, NYC. Wins World Lightweight Title. Was a 135 quick ko record of 66 seconds. Don't know if it still is.

1944: Manuel Ortiz KO 9 Luis Castillo, Los Angeles. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1951: Jimmy Carter W 15 Art Aragon, Los Angeles. Retains World Lightweight Title.

1966: Muhammad Ali KO 3 Cleveland Williams, Houston. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1967: Ken Norton KO 9 Grady Brazell, San Diego. Norton’s pro debut.

1971: Al Castro KO 2 Pipino Cuevas, Mexico City. Cuevas’ pro debut.

1980: Jeff Chandler KO 14 Julian Solis, Miami. Wins WBA Bantamweight Title.

1981: Aaron Pryor KO 7 Dujuan Johnson, Cleveland. Retains WBA Super Lightweight Title.

1995: Orzubek Nazarov W 12 Dindo Canoy, Iwaki City, Japan. Retains WBA Lightweight Title.

1998: Fabrice Tiozzo KO 2 Ezequiel Paixao, Mont-de-Marsan, France. Retains WBA Cruiserweight Title.

-Roy Jones Jr. KO 10 Otis Grant, Masnantucket, Conn. Retains WBC/WBA Light Heavyweight Title.

-Sugar Shane Mosley KO 9 Jesse James Leija, Mashantucket, Conn. Retains IBF Lightweight Title.

2003: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam W 12 Hussein Hussein, Bangkok, Thailand. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.

2009: Yuri Forman W 12 Daniel Santos, Las Vegas. Wins WBA Super Welterweight Title.

-Manny Pacquiao KO 12 Miguel Cotto, Las Vegas.

[IamInuit]

Nov 15


Fight of the day


1962: Cassius Clay vs Archie Moore


1888: Jack Dempsey (The Nonpareil) D 6 Mike Donovan, Brooklyn.

1901: James J. Jeffries KO 6 Gus Ruhlin, San Francisco. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1916: Benny Leonard ND 6 Johnny Dundee, Philadelphia.

1929: (Slapsie) Maxie Rosenbloom W 10 James J. Braddock, NYC.

1935: Sixto Escobar W 15 Lou Salica, NYC. Regains NBA Bantamweight Title.

1952: Jimmy Carruthers KO 1 Vic Toweel, Johannesburg, Wins World Bantamweight Title.

1962: Cassius Clay KO 4 Archie Moore, Los Angeles.

1975: Antonio Cervantes KO 8 Hector Thompson, Panama City. Retains World Super Lightweight Title.

1984: Evander Holyfield, Pernell Whitaker, Meldrick Taylor, Mark Breland, and Virgil Hill make successful pro debuts at Madison Square Garden.

1986: Miguel Lora W 12 Albert Davila, Barranquilla. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title.

1991: James Warring KO 5 Donnell Wingfield, Roanoke, VA. Retains IBF Cruiserweight Title.

1997: Vuyani Bungu W 12 Arnel Barotillo, Hammanskraal, SA. Retains IBF Super Bantamweight Title.

2003: Manny Pacquiao KO 11 Marco Antonio Barrera, San Antonio, TX. Wins World Featherweight Title.

[IamInuit]

November 16,

Fight of the day- Not sure how Ayala remained standing

2002: Erik Morales vs Paulie Ayala



1906: Abe Attell W 15 Billy DeCousey, San Diego. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1927: Tiger Flowers, 32, dies while undergoing surgery to remove scar tissue from around his eyes.

1932: (Slapsie) Maxie Rosenbloom W 10 John Henry Lewis, San Francisco.

1934: Bob Olin W 15 (Slapsie) Maxie Rosenbloom, NYC. Wins World Light Heavyweight Title.
-James J. Braddock W 10 John Henry Lewis, NYC.
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1963: Flash Elorde W Disq. 11 Love Allotey, Quezon City. Retains World Super Featherweight Title.

1974: Wilfredo Gomez D 6 Jacinto Fuentes, Panama City. Gomez’ pro debut. Gomez would go undefeated, scoring all knockouts in his next 32-outings.

1979: Alexis Arguello KO 8 Bobby Chacon, Inglewood. Retains WBC Super Featherweight Title.
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1984: Dodie Penalosa W 15 Chum Hwan Choi, Quezon City, Phillipines. Retains IBF Junior Flyweight Title.

1996: Vitali Klitschko KO 2 Tony Bradham, Hamburg, Germany. Klitschko’s pro debut.
-Wladimir Klitschko KO 1 Fabian Meza, Hamburg, Germany. Klitschko’s pro debut.

2001: Manuel Medina KO 6 Frankie Toledo, Las Vegas. Regains IBF Featherweight Title.

2002: Sven Ottke W 12 Rudy Markussen, Nurnberg, Germany. Retains IBF Super Middleweight Title.
-Erik Morales W 12 Paulie Ayala, Las Vegas. Wins vacant WBC Featherweight Title.
-Jorge Arce KO 3 Agustin Luna, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

[IamInuit]

November 17


Fight of the day

1972: Esteban DeJesus vs Roberto Duran



1913: Gunboat Smith W 12 Sam Langford, Boston. (This “mixed bout” had previously been banned by the state of New York.). By all accounts Sammy was jobbed.

1933: Barney Ross W 10 Sammy Fuller, Chicago. Retains World Super Lightweight Title.

1939: Billy Conn W 15 Gus Lesnevich, NYC. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1950: Kid Gavilan W 10 Billy Graham, NYC.

1954: Jimmy Carter KO 15 Paddy DeMarco, San Francisco. Regains World Lightweight Title.

1967: Dick Tiger KO 12 Roger Rouse, Las Vegas. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1971: Muhammad Ali W 12 Buster Mathis, Houston. Retains NABF Heavyweight Title.

1972: Esteban DeJesus W 10 Roberto Duran, NYC. Non-title fight. 1979: Eusebio Pedroza KO 11 -Johnny Aba, Papua, New Guinea. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.
-Luis Ibarra W 15 Betulio Gonzalez, Maracay. Wins WBA Flyweight Title.

1993: Al Cole KO 5 Vince Boulware, Atlantic City. Retains IBF Cruiserweight Title

1995: Don King’s trial for insurance fraud ends in a mistrial when the jury informs Federal Judge Lawrence McKenna that it is irretrievably deadlocked.

2000: Larry Holmes KO 6 Mike Weaver, Biloxi, Mississippi. Twenty-one years after their first fight.

2001: Lennox Lewis KO 4 Hasim Rahman, Las Vegas. Regains World Heavyweight Title.

I would like to thank Lennox for providing the best boxing picture to ever grace the face of thee earth.


-William Joppy W 12 Howard Eastman, Las Vegas.
-Yober Ortega KO 4 Jose Rojas, Las Vegas. Wins vacant WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

2006: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam W 12 Moneliso Mhikza Myekeni, Nakhon Ratchassima, Thailand. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.