This day in boxing. A look back.

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Jan 22


Fight of the day

1960: Paul Pender vs Sugar Ray Robinson



1960: Paul Pender W 15 Sugar Ray Robinson, Boston. Wins world middleweight title.

1973: George Foreman KO 2 Joe Frazier, Kingston, Jamaica. Wins world heavyweight title.

1977: Carlos Palomino KO 15 Armando Muniz, Los Angeles. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1980: Eusebio Pedroza W 15 Spider Nemoto, Tokyo. Retains WBA featherweight title. 6th defense of a record 19 successful title defenses.

1984: Johnny Bumphus W 15 Lorenzo Garcia, Atlantic City. Wins vacant WBA super-lightweight title.

1988: Mike Tyson KO 4 Larry Holmes, Atlantic City. Retains world heavyweight title.

-Carlos DeLeon W 12 Jose Maria Burlon, Atlantic City. Retains WBC cruiserweight title.

1990: Raul Perez W 12 Gaby Canizales, Los Angeles. Retains WBC bantamweight title.

2000: Sugar Shane Mosley KO 3 Willie Wise, Las Vegas. Mosley’s second fight as a welterweight.

2005: Floyd Mayweather KO 8 Henry Bruseles, Miami.

-Johnny Tapia W 10 Nicky Bentz, Hidalgo, TX.

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Jan 23


Fight of the day

2010: Carlos Tamara vs Brian Viloria



1908: Harry Lewis KO 3 Frank Mantell, New Haven, CT. Wins world welterweight title.

1915: Jeff Smith W disq. 5 Les Darcy, Sydney. Retains Australia world middleweight title.

1931: Jack (Kid) Berg W 10 Goldie Hess, Chicago. Retains world super-lightweight title.

1964: Pone Kingpetch W 15 Hiroyuki Ebihara, Bankok. Wins world flyweight title for the 3rd time.

1967: Emile Griffith W 15 Joey Archer, NYC. Retains world middleweight title.

1968: Howard Winstone KO 9 Mitsunori Seki, London. Wins vacant British world featherweight title.

1969: Bob Foster KO 1 Frankie DePaula, NYC. Retains world light-heavyweight title.

1988: Calvin Grove KO 4 Antonio Rivera, Gamaches, France. Wins vacant IBF featherweight title.

2010: Yuriokis Gamboa KO 2 Rogers Mtagwa, NYC. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.

-Juan Manuel Lopez KO 7 Steven Luevano, NYC

-Carlos Tamara KO 12 Brian Viloria, Manila, Philippines. Wins IBF Junior Flyweight Title.

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Jan 24


Fight of the day

1982: Eusebio Pedroza vs Juan LaPorte



1903: George Dixon D 6 Jem Driscoll, London.

1914: Tom McCormick W disq. 6 Waldemar Holberg, Melbourne. Wins world welterweight title.

1940: Henry Armstrong KO 9 Pedro Montanez, NYC. Retains world welterweight title. Armstrong’s 2nd defense in 20 days.

1950: Joey Maxim KO 10 Freddie Mills, London. Wins world light-heavyweight title.

1976: George Foreman KO 5 Ron Lyle, Las Vegas.

1981: Chul Ho Kim KO 9 Rafael Orono, San Cristobal, Venezuela. Wins WBC super-flyweight title.

1982: Eusebio Pedroza W 15 Juan LaPorte, Atlantic City. Retains WBA Featherweight title.

1990: Orlando Canizales W 12 Billy Hardy, Sunderland, England. Retains IBF bantamweight title.

1997: Pernell Whitaker KO 11 Diobelys Hurtado, Atlantic City. Retains World welterweight title. Whitaker scores a come-from-behind KO.

2004: Arturo Gatti W 12 Gianluca Branco, Atlantic City.

2009: Sugar Shane Mosley KO 9 Antonio Margarito, Los Angeles. Wins WBA Welterweight Title.

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Jan 25

Fight of the day

1976: Saensak Muangsurin vs Lion Furuyama








1894: James J. Corrbett KO 3 Charley Mitchell, Jacksonville, Fla. Retains world heavyweight title.

1915: Harry Greb ND 6 Jack Blackburn, Pittsburgh, PA. in the 6th.”

1932: Gorilla Jones KO 6 Oddone Piazza, Milwaukee. Wins vacant world middleweight title.

1939: Joe Louis KO 1 John Henry Lewis, NYC. Retains world heavyweight title.

1944: Bob Montgomery KO 12 Ike Williams, Philadelphia.

1976: Saensak Muangsurin W 15 Lion Furuyama, Tokyo. Retains WBC super-lightweight title.

1987: Chong Pal Park KO 15 Doug Sam, Seoul. Retains IBF super-middleweight title.

1999: Jean-Baptiste Mendy W 12 Alberto Sicurella, Versailles, France. Retains WBA Lightweight Title.

2003: Ricardo Mayorga KO 3 Vernon Forrest, Temecula, CA. Wins World Welterweight Title.

2007: Ulises Solis KO 8 Will Grigsby, Las Vegas. Retains IBF Junior Flyweight Title.

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Jan 26

Fight of the day

2002: Vernon Forrest vs Sugar Shane Mosley



1952: Vic Toweel W 15 Peter Keenan, Johannesburg. Retains world bantamweight title.

1991: Robert Quiroga W 12 Vicenzo Belcastro, Capo d’Orlando. Retains IBF super-flyweight title.

1998: Former World Featherweight Champion Hogan (Kid) Bassey, 65, dies.

2002: Vernon Forrest W 12 Sugar Shane Mosley, NYC. Wins World Welterweight Title.

-Arturo Gatti KO 4 Terron Millett, NYC. Gatti re-establishes himself as a top contender at super-lightweight.

2008: Chris John KO 7 Roinet Caballero, Senayan, Indonesia. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.

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Jan 27

Fight of the day

1985: Rocky Lockridge KO 6 Kamel Bou-All



1913: Jim Driscoll Draw 20 Owen Moran, London. Retains world British featherweight title.

1943: Manuel Ortiz KO 11 George Freitas, Oakland. Retains world bantamweight title. Manuel's second defense in less then a month.

1954: Archie Moore W 15 Joey Maxim, Miami. Retains world Light-Heavyweight title.

1980: Yoko Gushiken W 15 Yong Hyun Kim, Osaka. Retains WBA junior-flyweight title.

1985: Rocky Lockridge KO 6 Kamel Bou-All, Riva del Garda, Italy. Retains WBA super-featherweight title.

1989: Graciano Rocchigiani W 12 Thulane (Sugarboy) Malinga, Berlin. Retains IBF super-middleweight title.

1990: Lindell Holmes W 12 Frank Tate, New Orleans. Wins vacant IBF super-middleweight title.

1992: Humberto Gonzalez W 12 Domingo Sosa, Inglewood. Retains WBC junior-flyweight title

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Jan 28

Fight of the day

1978: Alexis Arguello vs Alfredo Escalera. Howard Cosell was one of a kind. Best boxing announcer that has so far ever lived.



1944: Beau Jack D 10 Sammy Angott, NYC.

1949: Kid Gavilan W 10 Ike Williams, NYC.

1959: Tiger Jones W 10 Joey Giardello, Louisville.

1974: Muhammad Ali W 12 Joe Frazier, NYC. As a big Frazier fan this one was hard to watch. He's lucky that the bell Perez heard was in his own head or he may not have made it out of round 2. Ali dominated.

1978: Alexis Arguello KO 13 Alfredo Escalera, Bayamon. Wins WBC super-featherweight title.
1984: Santos Laciar W 15 Juan Herrera, Marsala, Italy. Retains WBA flyweight title.

1990: John-John Molina KO 6 Lupe Suarez, Atlantic City. Retains IBF super-featherweight.

2006: Markus Beyer KO 12 Alberto Colajanni, Berlin, Germany. Retains WBC Super Middleweight Title