This day in boxing. A look back.

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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.

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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.

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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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Jan 7


Fight of the day

2006: O’Neil Bell vs Jean-Marc Mormeck



1978: Mate Parlov KO 9 Miguel Angel Cuello, Milan. Wins WBC light heavyweight title.

1979: Yoko Gushiken KO 7 Rigoberto Marcano, Kawasaki, Japan. Retains WBA junior-flyweight title.

1990: Prince Charles Williams KO 8 Frankie Swindell, Atlantic City. Retains IBF light-heavyweight title.

1995: Alejandro Gonzalez KO 10 Kevin Kelly, San Antonio. Wins WBC featherweight title.

-Wilfredo Vasquez W 12 Orlando Canizales, San Antonio. Retains WBA super-bantamweight title.

2000: Teddy Brenner, 82, one of boxing’s greatest matchmaker’s dies from Parkinson’s disease.

2006: O’Neil Bell KO 10 Jean-Marc Mormeck, NYC. Wins World Cruiserweight Title.

-Carlos Baldomir W 12 Zab Judah, NYC. Wins World Welterweight Title.

-Ulises Solis W 12 Will Grigsby, NYC. Wins IBF Junior Flyweight Title.

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Jan 8


Fight of the day


2000: Johnny Tapia vs Jorge Julio.





1975: Miguel Canto W15 Shoji Oguma, Sendai, Japan. Retains WBC flyweight title.

1995:Carlos Monzon is killed in an automobile accident while returning to prison after a furlough for good behavior after beating his wife half to death and then throwing her off a balcony and killing her.
You gotta like karma.

2000: Johnny Tapia W 12 Jorge Julio, Albuquerque.

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Jan 9


Fight of the day


1999:Sugar Shane Mosley vs Golden Johnson



1900:Terry McGovern KO 9 George Dixon, NYC. Wins World Featherweight Title.

Dixon’s corner threw in the sponge. McGovern becomes the undisputed champion.

National Police Gazette.

1917: Pete Herman W 20 Kid Williams, New Orleans. Wins world bantamweight title.

1923: Lou Bogash KO 11 Charley Nashert, NYC. Wins vacant NY. World middleweight title.

1942: Joe Louis KO 1 Buddy Baer NYC. Retains world heavyweight title. Baer down 3 times.

1973: Koichi Wajima Draw 15 Miguel De Oliveira, Tokyo. Retains world super-welterweight title.

1979: Eusebio Pedroza KO 14 Royal Kobayashi, Tokyo. Retains WBA featherweight title.

1999: Roy Jones Jr. KO 2 Rick Frazier, Pensacola, Fla. Retains world light-heavyweight title.
-Sugar Shane Mosley KO 7 Golden Johnson, Pensacola, Fla. Retains IBF lightweight title.
2006: Eagle Kyowa KO 9 Ken Nakajima, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBC Minimumweight Title.

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Jan 10


Fight of the day

1993: Freddie Pendleton vs Tracy Spann



1939: Henry Armstrong W 10 Baby Arizmendi, Los Angeles. Retains world welterweight title. Armstrong breaks the tie in this fifth fight and finishes 3 and 2 against the crafty Mexican.

1987: Patrizio Oliva W 15 Gato Gonzalez, Agrigento, Italy. Retains WBA super-lightweight title.

1992: Iran Barkley KO 2 Darrin Van Horn, NYC. Wins IBF super-middleweight title.

1993: Freddie Pendleton W 12 Tracy Spann, Atlantic City. Wins vacant IBF lightweight title.

1999: In-Joo Cho W 12 Joel Luna Zarate, Seoul. Retains WBC Super flyweight Title.

2008: Hozumi W 12 Simone Maludrottu, Osaka, Japan. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title.

Wladimir Sidorenko W 12 Nobuto Ikehara, Osaka, Japan. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.