This day in boxing. A look back.

[greynotsoold]

Back when Trinidad used both hands he was very good.

[IamInuit]

Back when Trinidad used both hands he was very good.

Yup. It was right about that time or shortly after that he started to plod in looking to land the shot and fell in love with his power. His old man was just as much to blame. Problem is it worked 95% of the time. Oscar should have been a message to Tito to fire dad.

[IamInuit]

Dec 11


Fight of the day


1982: Bobby Chacon vs Bazooka Limon. FOTY




1908: Abe Attell ND 10 Ad Wolgast, Los Angeles.

1925: Paul Berlenbach W 15 Jack Delaney, NYC. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1927: Tommy Loughran W 15 Jimmy Slattery, NYC. Wins World Light Heavyweight Title.

1930: Battling Battalino W 15 Kid Chocolate, NYC. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1933: Jackie Brown W 15 Ginger Foran, Manchester. Retains NBA Flyweight Title.

1939: Al Hostak KO 1 Eric Seelig, Cleveland. Retains NBA Middleweight Title.

-Henry Armstrong KO 7 Jimmy Garrison, Cleveland. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1964: Sandro Mazzinghi W 15 Fortunato Manca, Rome. Retains World Super Welterweight Title.

1970: Kuniaki Shibata KO 14 Vicente Saldivar, Tijuana, MX. Wins WBC Featherweight Title.

1971: Nicolino Locche W 15 Antonio Cervantes, Buenos Aires. Retains World Super Lightweight Title.

1981: Trevor Berbick W 10 Muhammad Ali, Nassau. The final fight in Ali’s illustrious career.

1982: Bobby Chacon W 15 Bazooka Limon, Sacramento. Wins WBC Super Featherweight Title. Referee: Isaac Herrera | judge: Angel L. Guzman 142-141 | judge: Carlos Padilla 143-141 | judge: Tamotsu Tomihara 141-140.

1988: German Torres W 12 Soon Jung Kang, Kimhae, S. Korea. Wins vacant WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

1989: Jesus Salud W Disq. 9 Juan Jose Estrada, Inglewood. Wins WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

1992: Katsuya Onizuka W 12 Armando Castro, Tokyo. Retains WBA Super Flyweight Title.

1993: Henry Maske W 12 David Vedder, Dusseldorf, Germany. Retains IBF Light Heavyweight Title.

1995: Luisito Espinosa W 12 Manuel Medina, Tokyo. Wins WBC Featherweight Title.

1999: Vitali Klitschko KO 9 Obed Sullivan, Hamburg, Germany.

-Juan Carlos Gomez KO 9 Napoleon Tagoe, Hamburg, Germany. Retains WBC Cruiserweight Title.

-Byron Mitchell D 12 Bruno Girard, Tunica, MS. Retains WBA Super Middleweight Title.

2004: Vitali Klitschko KO 8 Danny Williams, Las Vegas. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

2008: Tomasz Adamek W 12 Steve Cunningham, Newark, New Jersey Wins vacant World Cruiserweight Title.

-Joseph Agbeko W 12 William Gonzalez, Newark. Retains IBF Bantamweight Title.

-Jean Pascal W 12 Adrian Diaconu, Montreal, Canada. Retains WBC Light Heavyweight Title. I'll never forget the balls Jean showed in this fight. He must have reset his dislocated shoulder about 5 times during the fight.

-Jan Zaveck KO 3 Isaac Hlatshwayo, Johannesburg, South Africa. Wins IBF Welterweight Title+

[greynotsoold]

When I was a kid i loved little Red lopez, while my mother was a huge Chacon fan. For many years after those two fought I hated chacon, but I came to have all the respect in the world for his heart and courage. Limon, too. Those two, plus Arguello and Boza-edwards, some great fights.
I'd have loved to have been there for loughran v Slattery.

[IamInuit]

When I was a kid i loved little Red lopez, while my mother was a huge Chacon fan. For many years after those two fought I hated chacon, but I came to have all the respect in the world for his heart and courage. Limon, too. Those two, plus Arguello and Boza-edwards, some great fights.
I'd have loved to have been there for loughran v Slattery.

Those guys were fixtures in our living rooms Saturdays on ABC, NBC, hell even the CBC showed fights. Arguello would shine just as much today and he did yesterday at 130/35 and Lopez would fit right into this stacked feather area like a glove.

If there is an afterlife, I hope there is a time machine.

[Master]

When I was a kid i loved little Red lopez, while my mother was a huge Chacon fan. For many years after those two fought I hated chacon, but I came to have all the respect in the world for his heart and courage. Limon, too. Those two, plus Arguello and Boza-edwards, some great fights.
I'd have loved to have been there for loughran v Slattery.

I did not like Tito for beating Carr and Campus as well as Vargas but love the guy after. Same with McCallum for beating Herol Graham and Hearns for beating Andries but when I looked back at their carrers I thought wow!

[IamInuit]

Dec 12


Fight of the day


1981: Salvador Sanchez vs Pat Cowdell



1912: Henry Armstrong born. 12/12/12, Armstrong was very superstitious regarding his birth date.

1951: Ezzard Charles W 12 Joey Maxim, San Francisco.

1969: Ruben Olivares KO 2 Alan Rudkin, Inglewood. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1975: Alfredo Escalera KO 9 Sven-Erik Paulsen, Oslo. Retains WBC Super Featherweight Title.

-Miguel Canto W 15 Ignacio Espinal, Merida, MX. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.

1981: Salvador Sanchez W 15 Pat Cowdell, Houston. Retains WBC Featherweight Title. Referee: Steve Crosson | judge: Dickie Cole 146-140 | judge: James Jen-Kin 146-140 | judge: Bob McMillon 144-145. Cowdell down in the 15th.

1986: James (Bonecrusher) Smith KO 1 Tim Witherspoon, NYC. Wins WBA Heavyweight Title.

-Julio Cesar Chavez W 12 Juan LaPorte, NYC. Retains WBC Super Featherweight Title. Referee: Richard Steele | judge: Sid Nathan 117-112 | judge: Larry O’Connell 115-114 | judge: Bob Logist 114-113.

1992: Nigel Benn KO 11 Nickey Piper, London. Retains WBC Super Middleweight Title.

- Michael Carbajal KO 8 Robinson Cuesta, Phoenix. Retains IBF Junior Flyweight Title.

1997: Erik Morales KO 8 John Lowey, Tijuana, MX. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

1998: Juan Carlos Gomez KO 2 Rodney Gordon, Frankfurt, Germany. Retains WBC Cruierweight Title.

Dariusz Michalczewski KO 9 Drake Thadzi, Frankfurt.

-Fernando Vargas KO 7 Yory Boy Campas, Atlantic City. Wins IBF Super Welterweight Title.

-Ivan Robinson W 10 Arturo Gatti, Atlantic City.

-Nestor Garza W 12 Enrique Sanchez, Indio, CA. Wins WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

1999: Bernard Hopkins W 12 Antwon Echols, Miami, FL. Retains IBF Middleweight Title.

2000: Masamori Tokuyama W 12 Akihiko Nago, Osaka, Japan. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.

2009: Vitali Klitschko W 12 Kevin Johnson, Berne, Switzerland. Retains WBC Heavyweight Title.

-Vic Darchinyan KO 2 Tomas Rojas, Rancho Mirage, California. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.

[Master]

I do not know how Cowdell nearly beat Sanchez and gets slaughtered by Nelson who loses to Sanchez.