This day in boxing. A look back.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Feb 6

Fight of the day

1988: Greg Haugen vs Vinny Pazienza



1931: Tommy Loughran W 10 Max Baer, NYC.

1963: Carlos Monzon KO 2 Ramon Montenegro, Rafaela, Argentina. Monzon’s pro debut.

1967: Muhammad Ali W 15 Ernie Terrell, Houston. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1982: Amado Urzua KO 2 Hilario Zapata, Panama City. Wins WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

1987: Mark Breland KO 7 Harold Volbrecht, Atlantic City. Wins vacant WBA Welterweight Title.

1988: Greg Haugen W 15 Vinny Pazienza, Atlantic City. Regains IBF Lightweight Title.

-Kelvin Seabrooks KO 2 Fernando Beltran, Paris. Retains IBF Bantamweight Title.

1992: Mauro Galvano W 12 Juan Carlos Gimenez, Marchino, Italy. Retains WBC Super Middleweight Title.

1993: Riddick Bowe KO 1 Michael Dokes, NYC. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1994: Leo Gamez KO 7 Juan Torres, Panama City. Retains WBA Junior Flyweight Title.

1998: Reggie Johnson KO 5 William Guthrie, Uncasville, CT. Wins IBF Light Heavyweight Title.

-Sugar Shane Mosley KO 8 Demetrio Ceballos, Uncasville, CT. Retains IBF Lightweight Title.

1999: Bernard Hopkins KO 7 Robert Allen, Washington D.C. Retains IBF Middleweight Title.

-Sharmba Mitchell W 12 Pedro Saiz, Washington D.C. Retains WBA Super Lightweight Title.

-Vuyani Bungu KO 7 Victor Lierena, Johannesburg, South Africa. Retains IBF Super Bantamweight Title.

2004: Carl Thompson KO 9 Sebastian Rothman. Thompson dropped in the first round, Rothman down in the 5th & 9th.

-Glencoffe Johnson W 12 Clinton Woods, Sheffield, England. Wins vacant IBF Light Heavyweight Title.

2010: Edwin Valero KO 9 Antonio DeMarco, Monterrey, Mexico. Retains WBC Lightweight Title.

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Feb 7

Fight of the day

2009: Vic Darchinyan vs Jorge Arce



1882: John L. Sullivan KO 9 Paddy Ryan, Mississippi City. Wins bare-knuckle Heavyweight Title. History has noted that Jessie James may have been in attendance.

1916: Kid Williams D 20 Pete Herman, New Orleans. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1921: Jack Britton W 15 Ted Lewis, NYC. Retains World Welterweight Title. The last of their 20-meetings.

1934: Barney Ross W 12 Polo Nebo, New Orleans. Retains World Super Lightweight Title.

1961: Harold Johnson KO 9 Jesse Bowdry, Philadelphia. Wins vacant NBA Light Heavyweight Title.

1988: Frank Tate KO 10 Tony Sibson, Staffordshire, England. Retains IBF Middleweight Title.

-Myung Woo Yuh W 12 Willy Salazar, Seoul. Retains WBA Junior Flyweight Title.

1997: Lennox Lewis W Disq. 5 Oliver McCall, Las Vegas. Regains WBC Heavyweight Title

2009: Ruslan Chagaev W tech. dec. 6 Carl Davis Drumond, Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Retains WBA Heavyweight Title.

-Andres Kotelnik W 12 Marcos Rene Maidana, Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

-Vic Darchinyan KO 12 Jorge Arce, Anaheim, CA. Retains WBA/WBA/IBF Super Flyweight Title.

2010: Daiki Kameda W 12 Denkaosen Kaovichit, Kobe, Japan. Wins WBA Flyweight Title.