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Re: This day in boxing. A look back.
December 3
Fight of the day
1982:Wilfredo Gomez vs Lupe Pintor
1912: Johnny Kilbane KO 9 Monte Attell, Cleveland. Retains World Featherweight Title.
1915: Sam Langford ND 10 Harry Wills, NYC. Wills easily won the newspaper decision, per the New York Times.
1923: Harry Greb W 10 William Bryan Downey, Pittsburgh. Retains World Middleweight Title.1926: Mikey (Toy Bulldog) Walker W 10 Tiger Flowers, Chicago.First card under McBride law that legalized 10-round decisions in Pennsylvania. Greb was conservative at the start, boxing well within the rules. But Downey provoked him in the third round and Harry reverted to his old style and gave Bryan a terrific thrashing. Greb won every round but the first, which went to Downey by a slight margin. Greb won the third and each of the last five rounds by big margins and battered Downey all over the ring, but never floored him. A hook sent Downey through the ropes in round 3. Greb was given the judges decision.1928: Tod Morgan D 10 Santiago Zorilla, San Francisco. Retains World Super Featherweight Title.A very disputable and debatable decision. Referee Benny Yanger. Controversial decision greeted first by boos, then by cheers. Most fight critics believed Flowers had the best of this 10-round “bloody argument,” although Walker came on strong in the closing stanzas, staggering Flowers twice, and once putting him on his back in the ninth, but Flowers made an acrobatic recovery to an upright position. Flowers opened a cut over Walker’s left eye in the fourth stanza, hampering Walker for the remainder of the bout. Referee Yanger rendered the verdict. Attendance: 11,000. Gate revenue: $80,000 to $90,000. Flowers received half of the gate receipts, minus 10% to the state commission, while Walker got 10%. The State Commission immediately investigated Yanger’s decision, which he tried to justify by saying Walker did all the punching. On Dec. 8 the Commission upheld the verdict. It soon joined New York and Pennsylvania in providing for decisions by two judges — with the referee’s help if the judges disagreed.
-Frenchy Belanger W 12 Willie Davies, Toronto. Retains NBA Flyweight Title.
1960: Gene Fullmer D 15 Sugar Ray Robinson, Los Angeles. Retains NBA Middleweight Title.
1962: Carlos Ortiz KO 5 Terue Kosaka, Tokyo. Retains World Lightweight Title.
1970: Billy Backus KO 4 Jose Napoles, Syracuse, NY. Wins World Welterweight Title. Could have been upset of the year. Napoles was a 10 to 1 favourite.
1981: Joe Frazier D 10 Floyd (Jumbo) Cummings, Chicago. Fraziers first fight in 5-years.
1982: Thomas Hearns W 15 Wilfred Benitez, New Orleans. Wins WBC Super Welterweight Title.
-Wilfredo Gomez KO 14 Lupe Pintor, New Orleans. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.
1986: Elly Pical KO 10 Dong Chun Lee, Djakarta. Retains IBF Super Flyweight Title.
1989: Daniel Zaragoza W 12 Chan Yong Park, Inchon, S. Korea. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.
1992: Jeff Harding W 12 David Vedder, St-Jean-de-Luz, France. Retains WBC Light Heavyweight Title.
1994: Riddick Bowe W 12 Larry Donald, Las Vegas.
-Anaclet Wamba W 12 Marcelo Dominguez, Salta, Argentina. Retains WBC Cruiserweight Title.
1996: Pichitnoi C. Siriwat KO 2 Keiji Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan. Wins WBA Junior Flyweight Title.
1999: Zolani Petelo W 12 Juanito Rubillar, Peterborough, England. Retains IBF Strawweight Title.
2000: Steve Forbes KO 8 John Brown, Miami, FL. Wins vacant IBF Super Featherweight Title.
2004: Matin Castillo W 12 Alexander Munoz, Laredo, TX. Wins WBA Super Flyweight Title
2005: Jermain Taylor W 12 Bernard Hopkins, Las Vegas. Retains World Middleweight Title.
-Israel Vasquez KO 3 Oscar Larios, Las Vegas. Wins WBC, retains IBF Super Bantamweight Title.
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