Dec 31
This would be the day to attack an enemy.
Sub: Fairly decent ko compilation.
Dec 31
This would be the day to attack an enemy.
Sub: Fairly decent ko compilation.
Jan 1
Fight of the day. Could not find a suitable copy of anything so.........
1903: Joe Gans DQ 11 Gus Gardner, New Connecticut. Retains world lightweight title.
1907: Joe Gans KO 8 Kid Herman, Tonopah, NV. Retains world lightweight title.
1908: Abe Attell Draw 25 Owen Moran, Colma, CA. Retained world featherweight title.
1914: Waldemar Holberg W 20 Ray Bronson, Melbourne. Wins vacant world welterweight title.
-Johnny Dundee ND 10 Freddie Welsh, New Orleans.
1934: Freddie Miller W 10 Jack Sharkey, Cincinnati. Retains NBA featherweight title.
1935: Baby Arizmendi W 12 Henry Armstrong, Mexico City. Wins vacant Calif. & Mexican world featherweight title.
1937: Freddie Steele W 10 Gorilla Jones, Milwaukee. Retains NBA & NY. World middleweight title.
1943: Manuel Ortiz W 10 Kenny Lindsay, Portland OR. Retains world bantamweight title.
1977: Guty Espadas KO 7 JiroTakada, Tokyo. Retains WBA flyweight title.
Jan 2
Fight of the day
2000: In-Joo Cho vs Gerry Penalosa
1957: Gene Fullmer W 15 Sugar Ray Robinson, NYC. Wins world middleweight title.
1973: Masao Ohba KO 12 Chatchai Chionoi, Tokyo. Retains WBA flyweight title. 3 weeks later Ohba is killed in a car wreck. Ohba was 23 years old when he died with a career mark of 35-2-1 (15).
1978: Guty Espadas KO 7 Kimio Furesawa, Tokyo. Retains WBA flyweight title.
2000: In-Joo Cho W 12 Gerry Penalosa, Seoul. Retains WBC Super flyweight Title.
Jan 3
Fight of the day. Harada was something else. The great Eder Jofre only lost twice over his career. Both times to Harada.
1967: Fighting Harada vs Jose Medel
1916: Harry Wills W 20 Sam Langford, New Orleans. Referee Tommy Burns. Wills defends his World ‘coloured’ heavyweight title claim. …Calgary HeraldAt the end Burns caught Langford’s hand and said to him, “Sam, this is the hardest I ever had to do in my life. I always admired you and never thought to see you beaten, but I have to give the decision against you.”
1967: Fighting Harada W 15 Jose Medel, Nagoya. Retains world bantamweight title
1971: Yoshiaki Numata W 15 Rene Barrientos, Shizuaka, Japan. Retains WBC super-featherweight title.
1976: Jaime Rios W 15 Kazunori Tenryu, Kagoshima. Retains WBA junior-flyweight title.
1985: Ji Won Kim KO 10 Seung II Suh, Seoul. Retains IBF super-bantamweight title.
1988: Gianfranco Rosi KO 7 Duane Thomas, Genoa, Italy. Retains WBC super-welterweight title.
2004: Acelino Freitas W 12 Arthur Grigorian, Ledyard, CN. Freitas, now 35-0(31), wins easily.
-Masamori Tokuyama W 12 Dimitri Kirilov, Osaka, Japan. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.
-Alexander Munoz KO 10 Eiji Kojima, Osaka, Japan. Retains WBA Super Flyweight Title.
-Pongsaklek Wonjongkam W 12 Masaki Nakanuma, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.
2005: Katsushige Kawashima W 12 Jose Navarro, Tokyo. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title. Referee: Mark Green. Judge: William Boodhoo 109-120 | Judge: Gelasio Pérez 115-114 | Judge: Noppharat Sricharoen 115-113. Judge William Boodhoo scores every round for Navarro. Very controversial decision.
-Lorenzo Parra W 12 Trash Nakanuma, Tokyo. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.
2007: Edwin Valero KO 1 Michael Lozada, Tokyo. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.
-Cristian Mijares KO 10 Katsushige Kawashima, Tokyo. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.
2009: Paulus Moses W 12 Yusuke Kobori, Yokohama, Japan. Wins vacant WBA Lightweight Title.
-Toshiaki Nishioka KO 12 Genaro Garcia, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.
Jan 4
Fight of the day
2003: Luis Perez vs Felix Machado
1940: Henry Armstrong KO 5 Joe Ghnouly, St. Louis. Retains world welterweight title.
1964: Eddie Perkins KO 13 Yoshinori Takahashi, Tokyo. Retains world super-lightweight title.
1965: Ruben Olivares KO 1 Isidro Sotelo, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Olivares’ pro debut.
1978: Miguel Canto W 15 Shoji Oguma, Koriyama, Japan. Retains WBC flyweight title.
2003: Luis Perez W 12 Felix Machado, Washington D.C. Wins IBF Super Flyweight Title.
Jan 5
Fight of the day
2002:Leonard Dorin vs Raul Balbi
1931: Benny Bass W 10 Lew Massey, Philadelphia. Retains world super-featherweight title.
2002: Jesse James Leija Tech. Win 5 Mickey Ward, San Antonio, Texas.
-Leonard Dorin W 12 Raul Balbi, San Antonio, Texas. Wins WBA Lightweight Title.
2008: Paul Malignaggi W 12 Herman Ngoudjo, Atlantic City. Retains IBF Super Lightweight Title.
Jan 6
Fight of the day
2001: Joel Casamayor vs Roberto Garcia
1909: George Dixon, 38, dies. Man did he die young and what a life he led. He may have fought around 600 times. Biography – DIXON, GEORGE – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
1928: Tommy Loughran W 15 Leo Lomski, NYC. Retains world light-heavyweight title. Loughran visited the canvas for nine-counts twice in the first round.
James J. Braddock W 8 Paul Swiderski, NYC.
1947: Jersey Joe Walcott W 10 Joey Maxim, Philadelphia. Referee: Charlie Daggert.
-Harold Dade W 15 Manuel Ortiz, San Francisco. Wins World Bantamweight title.
1970: Johnny Famechon KO 14 Fighting Harada, Tokyo. Retains WBC featherweight title.
1991: Virgil Hill W 12 Mike Peak, Bismark, ND. Retains WBA light-heavyweight title. What an absolute yawner.
1985: Joo Do Chun KO 15 Kwang Gu Park, Ulsan, S. Korea. Retains IBF super-flyweight
Title.
2001: Joel Casamayor KO 9 Roberto Garcia, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.
2007: Samuel Peter W 12 James Toney, Hollywood, FL. Referee: Jorge Alonso | judge: Daniel Van de Wiele 118-110 | judge: John Keane 118-110 | judge: Peter Trematerra 119-108. Toney down in the 2nd.
Travis Simms KO 9 Jose Antonio Rivera, Hollywood, FL. Regains WBA Super Welterweight Title.
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