This day in boxing. A look back.

[TitoFan]

I think Duran once said De Jesus was one of the few opponents he really respected. De Jesus dropped him a couple of times, I think, including a fight De Jesus actually won. That was extremely rare during Duran's heyday. Still... Duran's penchant for not giving his opponents their due early on was pretty grating on the nerves.

[Master]

De Jesus was extremely fast and surprised Duran with the knock downs. Very underrated fighter.

[IamInuit]

Feb 2

Fight of the day


1980: Salvador Sanchez vs Danny (Little Red) Lopez



1923: Johnny Dundee W 15 Elino Flores, NYC. Retains World Super Featherweight Title.

1970: Carlos Monzon KO 6 Antonio Aguilar, Rosario, Argentina. Retains Argentina Middleweight Title.

-Carlos Zarate KO 3 Luis Castaneda, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Zarate’s pro debut.

1980: Salvador Sanchez KO 13 Danny (Little Red) Lopez, Phoenix. Wins WBC Featherweight Title.

-Azumah Nelson KO 3 Nii Nuer, Accra. Nelson’s 2nd pro fight.

1982: Davey Moore KO 6 Tadashi Mihara, Tokyo. Wins WBA Super Welterweight

1985: Eusebio Pedroza W 15 Jorge Lujan, Panama City. Retains WBA Featherweight title

-Victor Callejas W 15 Seung Hoon Lee, Hato Rey, PR. .

2002: Roy Jones Jr. KO 7 Glenn Kelly, Miami. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

-Bernard Hopkins KO 10 Carl Daniels, Reading, PA. Retains World Middleweight Title.

-Ronald Wright KO 5 Jason Papillion, Miami. Retains IBF Super Welterweight Title.

[IamInuit]

Feb 3

Fight of the day x 2


1990: Mike McCallum vs Steve Collins


1996: Marco Antonio Barrera vs Kennedy McKinney



1912: Johnny Coulon W 20 Frankie Conley, Vernon, CA.

1939: Melio Bettina KO 9 Tiger Jack Fox, NYC. Wins vacant New York World Light Heavyweight Title.

1980: Larry Holmes KO 6 Lorenzo Zanon, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Heavyweight Title.

-Wilfredo Gomez KO 7 Ruben Valdez, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

1981: Shoji Oguma W 15 Chan Hee Park, Tokyo. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.

1987: Bernardo Pinango W 15 Frankie Duarte, Inglewood. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.

1990: Mike McCallum W 12 Steve Collins, Boston. Retains WBA Middleweight Title.

-Pernell Whitaker W 12 Freddie Pendleton, Atlantic City. Retains WBC/IBF Lightweight Title.

1991: Kiyoshi Hatanaka KO 8 Pedro Decima, Nagoya, Japan. Wins WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

1993: Paul Hodkinson KO 4 Ricardo Cepeda, London. Retains WBC Featherweight Title.

1996: Marco Antonio Barrera KO 12 Kennedy McKinney, Inglewood. The debut event of HBO’s Boxing After Dark.

2001: Kostya Tszyu KO 7 Sharmba Mitchell, Las Vegas. Retains WBC, wins WBA, Super Lightweight Title.

2007: Chad Dawson W 12 Tomasz Adamek, Kissimmee, FLA. Wins WBC Light Heavyweight Title.

-Corey Spinks W 12 Rodney Jones, Kissimmee, FLA. Retains IBF Super Welterweight Title.

-Julio Diaz KO 3 Jesus Chavez. Kissimmee, FLA. Wins IBF Lightweight Title.

[IamInuit]

Feb 4

Fight of the day


1979: Alexis Arguello vs Alfredo Escalera 2



1909: Abe Attell KO 7 Eddie Kelly, New Orleans. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1927: Charley Phil Rosenberg W 15 Bushy Graham, NYC. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1952: Kid Gavilan W 15 Bobby Dykes, Miami. Retains World Welterweight Title. First racially mixed fight in Florida.

1960: Carlos Ortiz KO 10 Battling Torres, Los Angeles. Retains World Super Lightweight Title.

-Jose Becerra KO 9 Alphonse Halimi, Los Angeles. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1979: Alexis Arguello KO 13 Alfredo Escalera, Rimini, Italy. Retains WBC Super Featherweight Title.

1984: Donald Curry W 15 Marlon Starling, Atlantic City. Retains WBA Welterweight Title.

1989: Marlon Starling KO 9 Lloyd Honeyghan, Las Vegas. Wins World Welterweight Title.

-Mark Breland KO 1 Seung Soon Lee, Las Vegas. Regains (vacant) WBA Welterweight Title.

1990: Jorge Paez W 12 Troy Dorsey, Las Vegas. Retains IBF Featherweight Title.

-Hiyong Choi W 12 Leo Gamez, Ulsan, South Korea. Wins WBA Junior Flyweight Title.

1998: Don King is carjacked in Mexico City for a 100,000 dollar rolex

2007: Lovemore N’dou KO 11 Naoufel Ben Rabah, Sydney, Australia. Wins vacant IBF Super Lightweight Title.

[Master]

First time I have seen the Collins v Mike McCallum fight. Very entertaining.

[IamInuit]

Feb 5

Fight of the day

1967: Dick Tiger vs Jose Torres



1934:Maxie Rosenbloom D 15 Joe Knight, Miami. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1943: Jake LaMotta W 10 Sugar Ray Robinson, Detroit. Robinson suffers his first defeat.

-Beau Jack W 10 Fritzie Zivic, NYC.

1967: Dick Tiger W 15 Jose Torres, NYC. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title. All three judges score the fight 8-7 in rounds. Two for Tiger, and one for Torres.

1972: Antonio Gomez KO 7 Raul Martinez, Maracay. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.

1974: Koichi Wajima W 15 Miguel de Oliveria, Tokyo. Retains World Super Welterweight Title.

1977: Carlos Zarate KO 3 Fernando Cabenela, Mexico City. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title.

Sugar Ray Leonard W 6 Luis Vega, Baltimore. Leonard’s pro debut.

1988: Marlin Starling W 12 Fujio Ozaki, Atlantic City. Retains WBA Welterweight Title.

1989: Darrin Van Horn W 12 Robert Hines, Atlantic City. Retains IBF Super Welterweight Title.

1994: Chris Eubank W 12 Graciano Rocchigiani, Berlin.

1996: Yuri Arbachakov W 12 Raul Juarez, Osaka, Japan. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.

1998: Two-time former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, 31, files a $100-million lawsuit against Don King in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Alleging that his longtime promoter systematically defrauded him of tens of millions of dollars over a 10-year period.

-Middleweight Reuben Bell, 24, is shot to death by an unknown assailant in the lobby of Washington Hospital Center’s Cancer Institute, where he was being treated for colon cancer.

1999: Antonio Cermeno KO 2 Eddie Saenz, Miami. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.

2002: Willie Jorrin D 12 Osamu Sato, Tokyo, Japan. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

2005: Zab Judah KO 9 Cory Spinks, St. Louis, MO. Wins World Welterweight Title.