This day in boxing. A look back.

[Master]

Amazing will and desire from Quawi who was very short for his weight but still world class.

[IamInuit]

Nov 22


Fight of the day

1996: Roy Jones Jr. vs Mike McCallum




1965: Muhammad Ali KO 12 Floyd Patterson, Las Vegas. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1969: Nino Benvenuti KO 11 Luis Rodriguez, Rome. Retains World Middleweight Title.

1973: Wilfred Benitez KO 1 Hiram Santiago, San Juan, PR. Benitez’ (15-years old) pro debut.

1975: Carlos Palomino D 10 Hedgemon Lewis, Los Angeles.

1980: Aaron Pryor KO 6 Gaeton Hart, Cincinnati. Retains WBA Super Lightweight Title.

1986: Mike Tyson KO 2 Trevor Berbick, Las Vegas. Wins WBC Heavyweight Title.

-Bernardo Pinango KO 15 Simon Skosana, Johannesburg. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.

-Hi Sup Shin KO 13 Henry Brent, Chunchon, S. Korea. Retains IBF Flyweight Title.

1989: Marco Antonio Barrera KO 2 David Felix, Mexico City. Barrera’s pro debut.

1990: Robert Daniels D 12 Taoufik Belbouli, Madrid. Retains WBA Cruiserweight Title.

1991: Genaro Hernandez KO 9 Daniel Londas, Epernay, France. Wins vacant WBA Super Featherweight Title.

1996: Roy Jones Jr. W 12 Mike McCallum, Tampa FLA. WBC Light Heavyweight Title.

-Junior Jones W DQ 5 Marco Antonio Barrera, Tampa, FL.

1997: Shannon Briggs W 12 George Foreman, Atlantic City. Robbery.

-Joichiro Tatsuyoshi KO 7 Sirimongkol Singmanassak, Osaka, Japan. Regains WBC Bantamweight Title.

-Jose Bonilla KO 6 Keiji Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

2003: Javier Jauregui KO 11 Leavander Johnson, Los Angeles. Wins vacant IBF Lightweight Title.

-Oscar Larios KO 10 Napapol Kiatisakchokchai, Los Angeles. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

2008: Hugo Garay W 12 Juergen Braehmer, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Retains WBA Light Heavyweight Title.

-Ricky Hatton KO 11 Paulie Malignaggi, Las Vegas. Retains World Super Lightweight Title.

[Master]

Forgot Ricky stopped Paulie. My memory is going.

[IamInuit]

Nov 23


Fight of the day

1974: Alexis Arguello vs Ruben Olivares



1915: Ted Lewis KO 1 Jimmy Duffy, Boston. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1943: Manuel Ortiz W 15 Benny Goldberg, Los Angeles. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1974: Alexis Arguello KO 13 Ruben Olivares, Inglewood. Wins WBA Featherweight Title. Time: 1:20 | referee: Dick Young 8-3 | judge: Larry Rozadilla 6-5 | judge: George Latka 5-5.

1990: Christophe Tiozzo KO 2 Danny Morgan, Cergy Pontoise, France. Retains WBA Super Middleweight Title.

1991: Evander Holyfield KO 7 Bert Cooper, Atlanta. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1992: Oscar De La Hoya KO 1 Lamar Williams, Inglewood, CA. Oscars pro debut.

1996: Virgil Hill W 12 Henry Maske, Munich, Germany. Retains WBA/ wins IBF Light Heavyweight Title.

1997: Gerry Penalosa KO 10 Young-Joo Cho, Songnam, S. Korea. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.

2007: Ricardo Mayorga W 12 Fernando Vargas, Los Angeles, CA.
-Kermit Cintron KO 10 Jesse Feliciano, Los Angeles, CA. Retains IBF Welterweight Title.

[IamInuit]

Nov 24


Fight of the day

1990: Julian Jackson vs Herol Graham



1933: Tony Canzoneri KO 2 Kid Chocolate, NYC.

1948: Carmen Basilio KO 3 Jimmy Evans, Binghamton, NY. Basilio’s pro debut.

1976: Dong Kyun Yum W 15 Royal Kobayashi, Seoul. Wins WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

1990: Julian Jackson KO 4 Herol Graham, Benalmadena, Spain. Wins vacant WBC Middleweight Title.
-Sot Chitalada W 12 Jung Koo Chang, Seoul. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.

1996: Jose Bonilla W 12 Saen Sor Ploenchit, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. Wins WBA Flyweight Title.
-Ratanapol Sor Vorapin KO 2 Gustavo Vera, Udorn, Thailand. Retains IBF Strawweight Title.

2007: Firat Arslan W 12 Virgil Hill, Dresden, Germany. Wins vacant WBA Cruiserweight Title.
-Edgar Sosa KO 4 Roberto Carlos Leyva, Veracruz, Mexico. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

[IamInuit]

Nov 25


Fight of the day

1983: Michael Spinks vs Oscar Rivadeneyra



1905: Joe Jeanette WF 2 Jack Johnson, Philadelphia.

1908: Freddie Welsh W 15 Abe Attell, Vernon, CA. Non-title bout.

1927: Mickey Walker W 10 Paul Berlenbach, Chicago. Non-title fight.

1929: Jimmy Slattery W 10 Maxie Rosenbloom, Buffalo.

1940: Sammy Angott W 10 Bob Montgomery, Philadelphia.

1980: Carlos DeLeon W 15 Marvin Camel, New Orleans. Wins WBC Cruiserweight Title.

-Maurice Hope W 15 Carlos Herrera, Wembley. Retains WBC Super Welterweight Title.

-Sugar Ray Leonard KO 8 Roberto Duran, New Orleans. Regains World Welterweight Title.

1983: Larry Holmes KO 1 Marvis Frazier, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Heavyweight Title.

-Michael Spinks KO 10 Oscar Rivadeneyra, Vancouver. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1987: Joseph Walker DQ 1 Terry Norris, Las Vegas. Norris disqualified for hitting Walker while he was down.

1995: Mbuleo Botile KO 2 Reynaldo Hurtado, East London, S. Africa. Retains IBF Bantamweight Title.

-Alimi Goitia KO 5 Aquiles Guzman, Margarita Island, Venezuela. Retains WBA Super Flyweight Title.

1997: Sugar Shane Mosley KO 11 Max Gomez, El Paso, TX. Retains IBF Lightweight Title.

-2006: Krzysztof Wlodarczyk W 12 Steve Cunningham, Warsaw, Poland. Wins vacant IBF Cruiserweight Title

[IamInuit]

Nov 26


Fight of the day


2005: Ricky Hatton vs Carlos Maussa



1903: Bob Fitzsimmons W 20 George Gardner, San Francisco. Wins World light Heavyweight Title. Having won world titles at middleweight and at heavyweight, Fitzsimmons becomes boxing’s first triple title champion.

1906: Jack Johnson D 10 Joe Jeanette, Portland, ME.

1908: Stanley Ketchel KO 11 Billy Papke, Colma, CA. Regains World Middleweight Title.

1910: Owen Moran KO 11 Battling Nelson, San Francisco.

1914: Sam Langford KO 14 Harry Wills, Los Angeles. Referee George Blake.

Langford regains world ‘colored’ heavyweight title claim
“With a left swing to the jaw, Sam Langford of Boston knocked out Harry Wills, the giant New Orleans negro, in the fourteenth round of a scheduled twenty-round fight this afternoon at Vernon. Both men were knocked down repeatedly, Langford himself taking the count four times in the first two rounds. Langford early in the fight hurt his left ankle as he fell to the mat in a vicious breakaway. Wills’ effective straight-arm drives gave him an apparent even break in most of the rounds, but Langford fought with a superior knowledge of the game that gradually wore out Wills. As the soreness left Langford’s injured ankle, his footwork improved and the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth rounds showed Langford winning. His speed, judgment and force then enabled him to play with Wills. The final swing was delivered after a torrent of blows had left Wills staggering.”

(Indianapolis Star)

1920: Benny Leonard KO 14 Joe Welling, NYC. Retains World Lightweight Title.

1946: Bob Montgomery KO 8 Wesley Mouzon, Philadelphia. Retains New York World Lightweight Title.

1952: Ezzard Charles W 10 Jimmy Bivins, Chicago. Bivins down in the first.

1954: Pascual Perez W 15 Yoshio Shirai, Tokyo. Wins World flyweight Title.

1977: Soo Hwan Hong KO 3 Hector Carrasquilla, Panama City. Wins vacant WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

1982: Larry Holmes W 15 Randall (Tex) Cobb, Houston. Retains WBC Heavyweight Title. The final fight Howard Cosell would ever call.

1988: Daniel Zaragoza KO 5 Valerio Nati, Forti, Italy. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

1993: Julio Cesar Barboa KO 5 Rolando Pascua, Hermosillo, MX. Retains IBF Super Flyweight Title.

1994: John-John Molina KO 10 Wilson Rodriguez, Bayamon, PR. Retains IBF Super Featherweight Title.

1995: Antonio Cermeno W 12 Jesus Salud, Caracas. Retains WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

1996: Mbulelo Botile W 12 Aristead Clayton, Baton Rouge, LA. Retains IBF Bantamweight Title.

1998: Saman Sorjaturong W 12 Ladislao Vasquez, Pathum Thani, Thailand. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

2002: Pongsaklek Wonjonkam W 12 Hidenobu Honda, Osaka, Japan. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.

2005: Ricky Hatton KO 9 Carlos Maussa, Sheffield, England. Retains World Super Lightweight Title.

-Wladimir Siderenko W 12 Jose Jesus Lopez, Leverkusen, Germany. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.