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.