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.