This day in boxing. A look back.

[IamInuit]

Jan 31

Fight of the day

1988: Sot Chitalada vs Hideaki Kamishiro



1914: Jersey Joe Walcott born Arnold Raymond Cream.

1941: Joe Louis KO 5 Red Burman, NYC. Retains world heavyweight title.

1983: Rafael Orono KO 4 Pedro Romero, Caracas. Retains WBC Super-flyweight title.

1988: Sot Chitalada TKO 7 Hideaki Kamishiro, Osaka. Retains WBC flyweight title.

-Hiroki Ioka KO 12 Kyung Yun Lee, Osaka. Retains WBC strawweight title.

1998: Bernard Hopkins KO 6 Simon Brown, Atlantic City. Retains IBF middleweight title.

-William Joppy W 12 Julio Cesar Green, Tampa, Fla. Regains WBA middleweight title.

2004: Antonio Margarito KO 2 Hercules Kyvelos, Phoenix, AZ.

-Rafael Marquez KO 2 Pete Frissina, Phoenix. Retains IBF Bantamweight Title.

[Master]

Sot Chitalada was the bomb, he beat up our Charlie Magri with ease over here.

[IamInuit]

February 1

Fight of the day




1900:Terry McGovern KO 5 Eddie Santry, Chicago. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1904: Abe Attell KO 5 Harry Forbes, St. Louis. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1938: Henry Armstrong KO 3 Albert (Chalky) Wright. Los Angeles.

1946: Marty Servo KO 4 Freddie Cochrane, NYC. Wins World Welterweight Title.

1965: Floyd Patterson W 12 George Chuvalo, NYC. 1965 Fight of the Year – Ring Magazine With a live gate of $ 166,423.00 and $ 600,000.00 from theater TV, this, to date, was the richest non-title fight in history.

1970: Bruno Acari W 15 Pedro Adigue, Rome. Wins WBC Super Lightweight Title.

1978: Soo Hwan Hong W 15 Yu Kasahara, Tokyo. Retains WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

1980: Rafael Orono W 15 Seung Hoon Lee, Caracas. Wins newly created WBC Super Flyweight Title.

1997: Yong Soo Choi W 12 Lakva Kim, Songnam, South Korea. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.

2002: Vassiliy Jirov W 12 Jorge Castro, Phoenix, AZ. Retains IBF Cruiserweight Title.

2003: Carlos Hernandez KO 8 David Santos, Las Vegas. Wins vacant IBF Super Featherweight Title.

Juan Manuel Marquez KO 7 Manuel Medina, Las Vegas. Wins IBF Featherweight Title.