This day in boxing. A look back.

[IamInuit]

Dec 15

Fight of the day


1995: Arturo Gatti vs Tracy Patterson 1



1862: Jack Dempsey (The Nonpareil) born John Kelly.

1944: Sal Bartolo W 15 Willie Roache, Boston. Retains NBA Featherweight Title.

1950: Ezzard Charles KO 11 Nick Barone, Cincinnati. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1954: Bobo Olson KO 11 Pierre Langlois, San Francisco. Retains World Middleweight Title.

1958: Pascual Perez W 15 Dommy Ursua, Manila. Retains World Flyweight Title.

1967: Luis Rodriguez W 10 Bennie Briscoe, NYC.

1971: Vicente Rondon KO 8 Doyle Baird, Cleveland. Retains WBA Light Heavyweight Title.

1975: Roberto Duran KO 15 Leoncio Ortiz, Hato Rey, PR. Retains World Lightweight Title.

1979: Ricardo Cardona W 15 Sergio Palma, Barranquilla. Retains WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

1982: Osvaldo Ocasio W 15 Young Joe Louis, Chicago. Retains WBA Cruiserweight Title.

1984: Gene Hatcher W 15 Ubaldo Sacco, FT. Worth, TX. Retains WBA Super Lightweight Title.

-Richard Sandoval W 15 Edgar Roman, Monte Carlo. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.

-Jung Koo Chang W 12 Tadashi Kuramochi, Pusan, S. Korea. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

1990: Mauro Galvano W 12 Dario Matteoni, Monte Carlo. Wins vacant WBC Super middleweight Title.

1995: Oscar De La Hoya KO 2 Jesse James Leija, NYC.

-Mitchell Rose, 1-8 (1) KO 2 Eric (Butterbean) Esch, NYC.

-Arturo Gatti W 12 Tracy Patterson, NYC. Wins IBF Super Featherweight Title.

1996: Saman Sorjaturong W 12 Manuel Jesus Herrera, Chiang Ray, Thailand. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

2000: Davey Hilton W 12 Dingaan Thobela, Montreal, Canada. Wins WBC Super Middleweight Title.

-Eric Morel W 12 Gilberto Keb-Baas, Madison, Wisconson. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

2001: John Ruiz D 12 Evander Holyfield, Ledyard, CT. Retains WBA Heavyweight Title.

-Dariusz Michalczewski KO 11 Richard Hall, Berlin. Michalczewski moves his record to 45-0 (3.

-Tim Austin W 12 Ratanachai Vorapin, Ledyard, CT. Retains IBF Bantamweight Title.

2007: Edwin Valero KO 3 Zaid Zavaleta, Cancun, Mexico. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.

-Jorge Linares KO 8 Gamaliel Diaz, Cancun, Mexico. Retains WBC Featherweight Title.

-Ulises Solis KO 10 Bert Batawang, Guadalajara, Mexico. Retains IBF Flyweight Title.

[IamInuit]

Dec 16


Fight of the day


2000:Mbulelo Botile vs Paul Ingle



1927: Tod Morgan WF 14 Joe Glick, NYC. Retains World Super Featherweight Title.

-Corp. Izzy Schwartz W 15 Newsboy Brown, NYC. Wins vacant New York World flyweight Title.

1940: Joe Louis KO 6 Al McCoy, Boston. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1941: Jackie Wilson W 12 Richie Lemos, Los Angeles. Retains NBA Featherweight Title.

1966: Dick Tiger W 15 Jose Torres, NYC. Wins World Light Heavyweight Title. The 37-year old Tiger captures his second world title by scores of 10-5, 10-4-1, and 8-6-1.

1971: Bob Foster KO 3 Brian Kelly, Oklahoma City. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1972: Jose Legra KO 10 Clemente Sanchez, Monterrey. Regains WBC Featherweight Title.

1979: Chan Hee Park KO 2 Guty Espadas, Pusan, S. Korea. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.

1981: Katsuo Tokashiki W 15 Hwan Jin Kim, Sendai, Japan. Wins WBA Junior Flyweight Title.

1989: Julio Cesar Chavez KO 3 Alberto Cortes, Mexico City. Retains WBC Super Lightweight Title.

1990: Lindell Holmes W 12 Sugar Boy Malinga, Marino, Italy. Retains IBF Super Middleweight Title.

1991: Hiroki Ioka W 12 Myung Woo Yuh, Osaka. Wins WBA Junior Flyweight Title.

1993: Zack Padilla W 12 Ray Olivera, Ledyard, CT. Fight of the Year candidate!!

1994: Frankie Liles W 12 Michael Nunn, Quito, Equador. Retains WBA Super Middleweight Title.

-Bernard Hopkins D 12 Segundo Mercado, Quito, Equador. For vacant IBF Middleweight Title.

1995: Mike Tyson KO 3 Buster Mathis Jr. Philadelphia. Mike’s first official KO win since 3/18/1991.

-Terry Norris W 12 Paul Vaden, Philadelphia. Retains WBC/wins IBF Super Welterweight Title.

-Julio Cesar Vasquez KO 11 Carl Daniels, Philadelphia. Regains (vacant) WBA Super Welterweight Title.

2000: Juan Carlos Gomez KO 10 Jorge Castro, Essen, Germany. Retains WBC Cruiserweight Title.

-Sven Ottke W 12 Silvio Branco, Karlsruhe, Germany. Retains IBF Super Middleweight Title.

-Paul Spadafora W 12 Billy Irwin, Pittsburgh. Retains IBF Lightweight Title.

-Mbulelo Botile KO 12 Paul Ingle, Sheffield, England. Wins IBF Featherweight Title. Ingle subsequently undergoes surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain.

-Felix Machado KO 3 William de Souza, Maracay, Venezuela. Retains IBF Super Flyweight Title.

2003: Mahyar Monshipour KO 7 Jairo Tagliaferro, Levallois, France. Retains WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

2004: Vic Darchinyan KO 11 Irene Pacheco, Hollywood, FL. Wins IBF Flyweight Title.

2007: Danny Green W 12 Stripe Drews, Perth, Australia. Wins WBA Light Heavyweight Title.

[Master]

Ingle nearly died after that fight.

[IamInuit]

Dec 17


Fight of the day


1983: Jeff Chandler vs Oscar Muniz 2



1909: Monte Attell D 20 Danny Webster, San Francisco. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1923: Johnny Dundee W 15 Jack Bernstein, NYC. Regains World Super Featherweight Title.

1952: Archie Moore W 15 Joey Maxim, St. Louis. Wins World Light Heavyweight Title. Maxim was guaranteed $100,000, and Moore 10% of the take after Maxim’s take. That would amount to $800.00. Plus, Moore had to take on Maxim’s manager, Jack (Doc) Kearns, as his own. After 16-years as a pro and 160 fights, Moore owns the title.

1960: Emile Griffith W 10 Luis Rodriguez, NYC.

1965: Nino Benvenuti W 15 Sandro Mazzinghi, Rome. Retains World Super Welterweight Title.

1966: Ki Soo Kim W 15 Stan Harrington, Seoul. Retains World Super Welterweight Title.

1975: Luis Estaba KO 10 Takenobu Shimabukuro, Okinawa. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

1977: Cecilio Lastra W 15 Rafael Ortega, Torrelavega, Spain. Wins WBA Featherweight Title.

1980: Khaosai Galaxy KO 5 Pukk Sithrum, Bangkok. Galaxy’s pro debut.

1983: Jeff Chandler KO 7 Oscar Muniz, Atlantic City. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.

1990: Raul Perez KO 8 Candelario Carmona, Tijuana. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title.

1993: Virgil Hill W 12 Guy Waters, Minot, ND. Retains WBA Light Heavyweight Title.

1994: Dariusz Michalczewski KO 10 Nestor Giovannini, Hamburg, Germany.

-Harold Grey W 12 Vincenzo Belcastro, Cagliari, Italy. Retains IBF Super flyweight Title.

1999: Francisco Castillejo KO 7 Mikael Rask, Madrid, Spain. Retains WBC Super Welterweight Title.

-Paul Spadafora KO 11 Renato Cornett, Pittsburgh, PA. Retains IBF Lightweight Title.

2006: Injin Chi W 12 Rudy Lopez, Seoul, Korea. Regains WBC Featherweight Title

[IamInuit]

Dec 18


Fight of the day.


1993:Ricardo Lopez vs Manny Melchor




1901: Joe Walcott (The Barbados Demon) KO 5 James (Rube) Ferns, Ft. Erie, Ontario. Wins World Welterweight Title.

The little 5 foot firecracker Walcott actually coined the phrase "the bigger they are the harder they fall"


1902 Police Gazette stated,

"From a techincal standpoint three or four fighters have been recognized as welterweight champion, but it was apparent to men who have knowledge of prize ring affairs that they only held that tile on sufferance because of an obvious desire to avoid meeting with a black man who was conceded to be their superior."

1916: Jimmy Wilde KO 11 Young Zulu Kid, London. Retains World Flyweight Title.

1925: Louis Kaplan W 15 Babe Herman, NYC. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1942: Beau Jack KO 3 Tippy Larkin, NYC. Wins vacant New York World Lightweight Title.

1977: Eddie Gazo W 15 Kenji Shibata, Tokyo. Retains WBA Super Welterweight Title.

1987: Fidel Bassa W 12 Felix Marti, Cartagena. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

1993: Michael Nunn W 12 Merqui Sosa, Puebla, MX. Retains WBA Super Middleweight Title.

-Simon Brown KO 4 Terry Norris, Puebla, MX. Wins WBC Super Welterweight Title. Upset of the year and one of @Master 's favourite fights

-Julio Cesar Chavez KO 5 Andy Holligan, Puebla, MX. Retains WBC Super Lightweight Title.

-Ricardo Lopez KO 11 Manny Melchor, Lake Tahoe, NV. Retains WBC Strawweight Title.

1998: Will Grigsby W 12 Ratanapol Sor Voraphin, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Wins vacant IBF Junior Flyweight Title.

1999: Tim Austin KO 1 Bernardo Mendoza, Tunica, MS. Retains IBF Bantamweight Title.

2004: Glen Johnson W 12 Antonio Tarver, Los Angeles. Wins World Light Heavyweight Title.

-Markus Beyer W 12 Yoshinori Nishizawa, Bayreuth, Germany. Retains WBC Super Middleweight Title.

-Isaac Bustos KO 4 Eagle Kyowa, Tokyo. Wins WBC Strawweight Title.

-Hozumi Hasegawa KO 4 Alvaro Perez, Kobe, Japan. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title.

[IamInuit]

Dec 19



Fight of the day

1981: Dwight Braxton vs Matthew Saad Muhammad- Damn he even looks like Frazier in the ring warm up.



1913: Jack Johnson D 10 Battling Jim Johnson, Paris. Retains World Heavyweight Title. The first heavyweight title fight to be contested by two black fighters. Jack should have fought Joe Jeanette, Harry Wills, Sam McVey or Sam Langford who were all far more deserving of that honour than Jim Johnson.

1924: Cannonball Martin W 15 Abe Goldstein, NYC. Wins World Bantamweight Title.

1927: Frenchy Belanger W 12 Ernie Jarvis, Toronto. Retains NBA Flyweight Title.

1941: Sammy Angott W 15 Lew Jenkins, NYC. Wins World Lightweight Title.

1947: Sugar Ray Robinson KO 6 Chuck Taylor, Detroit. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1952: Joey Giardello W 10 Billy Graham, NYC.

1980: Lupe Pintor W 15 Albert Davila, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title. Pintor avenges an earlier defeat to Davila.

1981: Dwight Braxton KO 10 Matthew Saad Muhammad, Atlantic City. Wins WBC Light Heavyweight Title. After this fight Braxton changed his name to Dwight Muhammad Qawi.

-Juan Herrera KO 7 Betulio Gonzalez, Merida, MX. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

1986: Gilberto Roman W 12 Kong Payakaroon, Bangkok. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.

1987: Brian Mitchell KO 8 Salvatore Curcetti, Capo D’Orlando, Italy. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.

1990: Rolando Pascua KO 6 Humberto (Chiquita) Gonzalez, Inglewood. Wins WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

1992: Yung Kyun Park W 12 Ever Boleno, Changwon, S. Korea. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.

1995: Shinji Takehara W 12 Jorge Castro, Tokyo. Wins WBA Middleweight Title.

1997: Thulane Malinga W 12 Robin Reid, London. Regains WBC Super Middleweight Title.

-Naseem Hamed KO 4 Kevin Kelly, NYC.

-Kennedy McKinney KO 4 Junior Jones, NYC. Upset to be sure.

1998: David Tua KO 10 Hasim Rahman, Atlantic City.

-Floyd Mayweather KO 2 Angel Manfredy, Atlantic City. Retains WBC Super Featherweight Title. I never liked how that ended.

2009: Kelly Pavlik KO 5 Miguel Angel Espino, Youngstown, Ohio. Retains World Middleweight Title.

-Edwin "Nut Job" Valero KO 7 Hector Velazquez, La Guaira, Venezuela. Retains WBC Lightweight Title.

-Cristobal Cruz Tech. Draw 3 Ricardo Castillo, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. Retains IBF Featherweight Title.

[Master]

@IamInuit you are just picking on Terry Norris.

That fight was strange. Norris wins 9 out of 10 times against Brown but this just have been the one. To be fair it was a good fairy tale story. Always liked Simon Brown.