This day in boxing. A look back.

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Mar 21

Fight of the day

1982: Aaron Pryor KO 12 Miguel Montilla



1914: Matt Wells W 20 Tom McCormick, Sydney. Wins World Welterweight Title.

-Joe Jeanette W 15 Georges Carpentier, Paris.

1924: Abe Goldstein W 15 Joe Lynch, NYC. Wins World Bantamweight Title.

1930: Midget Wolgast W 15 Black Bill, NYC. Wins vacant New York World Flyweight Title.

1933: Freddie Miller W 10 Speedy Dado, Los Angeles. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1938: Fritzie Zivic W 10 Charley Burley, Pittsburgh.

1941: Joe Louis KO 13 Abe Simon, Detroit. Retains World Heavyweight Title. Joe's third of 7 title defenses in that year.

1953: Jimmy Carruthers KO 10 Vic Toweel, Johannesburg. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1963: Luis Rodriguez W 15 Emile Griffith, Los Angeles. Wins World Welterweight Title.

-Roberto Cruz KO 1 Battling Torres, Los Angeles. Wins vacant World Super Lightweight Title.

-Sugar Ramos KO 11 Davey Moore, Los Angeles. Wins World Featherweight Title.

1982: Dwight Qawi KO 6 Jerry Martin, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Light Heavyweight Title.

-Aaron Pryor KO 12 Miguel Montilla, Atlantic City. Retains WBA Super Lightweight Title.

1988: Mike Tyson KO 2 Tony Tubbs, Tokyo. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1997: Montell Griffin W disq. 9 Roy Jones Jr., Atlantic City. Wins WBC Light Heavyweight Title. Jones lands 2-heavy shots after Griffin takes a knee.

1998: Zolani Petelo W 12 Faisol Akbar, Hammanskraal, South Africa. Retains IBF Strawweight Title.

2009: Vitali Klitschko KO 9 Juan Carlos Gomez, Stuttgart, Germany. Retains WBC Heavyweight Title

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Pryor throws punches insanely! How can anyone live with that?

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Mar 22

Fight of the day. Good ole VHS

1981: Salvador Sanchez vs Roberto Castanon



1898: James J. Jeffries KO 3 Peter Jackson, San Francisco. Jackson, 36, was dying from tuberculosis.

1926: Jack Delaney W 10 (Slapsie) Maxie Rosenbloom, Philadelphia.

1933: Barney Ross W 10 Billy Petrolle, Chicago.

1967: Muhammad Ali KO 7 Zora Folley, NYC. Retains World Heavyweight Title. Ali’s last fight for 3 ½ years.

1981: Salvador Sanchez KO 10 Roberto Castanon, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Featherweight Title.

1986: Trevor Berbick W 12 Pinklon Thomas, Las Vegas. Wins WBC Heavyweight Title.

-Carlos De Leon W 12 Bernard Benton, Las Vegas. Wins WBC Cruiserweight Title.

-Dwight Qawi KO 6 Leon Spinks, Reno. Retains WBA Cruiserweight Title.

1993: Carlos Gonzalez KO 1 Tony Baltazar, Los Angeles.

1997: Genaro Hernandez W 12 Azumah Nelson, Corpus Cristi, TX. Wins WBC Super Featherweight Title.

-Ratanapol Sow Voraphin KO 4 Luis Doria, Saraburi, Thailand. Retains IBF Strawweight Title.

2003: Cory Spinks W 12 Michele Piccirillo, Campione D’Italia, Italy. Wins IBF Welterweight Title.

-Manny Pacquiao KO 5 Serikzhan Yeshmangbetov Manila.

2008: Andreas Kotelnik KO 12 Gavin Rees, Cardiff, Wales. Wins WBA Super Lightweight Title.

-Joel Casamayor KO 10 Michael Katsidis, Cabazon, CA. Retains World Lightweight Title.

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Mar 23

Fight of the day

1996:Arturo Gatti vs Wilson Rodriguez



1900: Frank Erne KO 12 Joe Gans, NYC. Retains World Lightweight Title.

1917: Battling Levinsky ND 10 Tommy Gibbons, St. Paul.

1948: Rinty Monaghan KO 7 Jackie Paterson, Belfast. Retains NBA Flyweight Title.

1979: Larry Holmes KO 7 Osvaldo Ocasio, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Heavyweight Title.

-Earnie Shavers KO 1 Ken Norton, Las Vegas.

1996: Nate Miller KO 9 Brian LaSpada, Miami. Retains WBA Cruiserweight Title.

-Arturo Gatti KO 6 Wilson Rodriguez, NYC. Retains IBF Super Featherweight Title.

-Antonio Cermeno W 12 Yober Ortega, Miami. Retains WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

1998: Yory Boy Campas KO 3 Anthony Stephens, Ledyard, CT. Retains IBF Super Welterweight Title.

2001: Clarence (Bones) Adams W 12 Ivan Alvarez, Owensboro, KY. Retains WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

2002: Masamori Tokuyama KO 9 Kazuhiro Ryuko, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.

2013: Robert Stieglitz KO 4 Arthur Abraham, Magdeburg, Germany.

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Mar 24

Fight of the day. Savage and brutal but part of boxing history and a glaring reminder of the risk.

1962: Emile Griffith vs Benny (Kid) Paret



1899: Kid Mc Coy W 20 Joe Choynski, San Francisco.

1924: Harry Greb KO 12 Fay Kaiser, Baltimore. Retains World Middleweight Title.

1932: Billy Petrolle KO 12 Battling Battalino, NYC. Referee: Ed Smith.

A crowd of 18,000 watched as “Petrolle cut Battalino to pieces with vicious rights and lefts to the head, brought blood streaming from a dozen cuts, and finally stopped him after one minute and 31 seconds of the twelfth and final round. Two smashing punches to the body made Battalino sway. Another volley to the head sent him reeling into the ropes. Still he refused to go down but he was obviously out on his feet and Referee Gunboat Smith stepped in and awarded the fight to Petrolle on a technical knockout.”

(AP).

1933: Maxie Rosenbloom KO 4 Bob Goodwin, NYC. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1938: Benny Lynch D 15 Peter Kane, Liverpool. Retains World Flyweight Title.

1950: Rocky Marciano W 10 Roland La Starza, NYC. Contraversial. Only a kg by Marciano stopped this fight from being a draw.

1962: Emile Griffith KO 12 Benny (Kid) Paret, NYC. Regains World Welterweight Title. Paret dies 10-days later as a result of the battering he received. This would be the grief stricken Ruby Goldstein’s last fight as a referee.

1975: Muhammad Ali KO 15 Chuck Wepner, Cleveland. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1980: Hilario Zapata W 15 Shigeo Nakajima, Tokyo. Wins WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

1988: Roger Mayweather KO 3 Mauricio Aceves, Los Angeles. Retains WBC Super Lightweight Title.

1990: Juan Coggi W 12 Jose Luis Ramirez, Ajaccio, Corsica. Retains WBA Super Lightweight Title.

-Humberto Gonzalez KO 3 Francisco Tejedor, Mexico City. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

2001: Vassiliy Jirov KO 1 Terry McGroom, Las Vegas. Retains IBF Cruiserweight Title.

-Sven Ottke KO 8 James Crawford, Magdeburg, Germany. Retains IBF Super Middleweight Title.

-Oscar De La Hoya KO 5 Arturo Gatti, Las Vegas.

2007: Mikkel Kessler W 12 Librado Andrade, Copenhagen, Denmark. Retains WBA/WBC Super Middleweight Title.

2012: Danny Garcia W 12 Erik Morales, Houston, TX. Wins WBC Super Lightweight Title.

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Mar 25

Fight of the day

1979: Wilfred Benitez vs Harold Weston Jr 2





1904: Joe Gans W 15 Jack Blackburn, Baltimore.

1916: Jess Willard No Decision 10 Frank Moran, NYC. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1929: Jackie Fields W 10 Young Jack Thompson, Chicago. Wins vacant NBA Welterweight Title.

1931: Frankie Genaro D 15 Victor Ferrand, Madrid. Retains World Flyweight Title.

1956: Raul Macias KO 10 Leo Espinosa, Mexico City. Retains NBA Bantamweight Title.

1958: Sugar Ray Robinson W 15 Carmen Basilio, Chicago. Wins World Middleweight Title

1961: Eder Jofre KO 10 Piero Rollo, Rio de Janeiro. Retains NBA Bantamweight Title.

1974: George Foreman KO 2 Ken Norton, Caracas. Retains World Heavyweight Title.

1979: Wilfred Benitez W 15 Harold Weston Jr., San Juan. Retains WBC Welterweight Title.

1989: Taoufik BelBouli KO 8 Michael Greer, Casablanca. Wins vacant WBA Cruiserweight Title.

-Michael Nunn KO 1 Sumbu Kalambay, Las Vegas. Retains IBF Middleweight Title.

1991: Melchor Cob Castro KO 10 Rolando Pascua, Inglewood. Wins WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

2006: Hozumi Hasegawa KO 9 Veeraphol Sahaprom, Kobe, Japan. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title.

-Ulises Solis KO 9 Eric Ortiz, Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico. Retains IBF Junior Flyweight Title.

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Mar 26

Fight of the day

1989: Antonio Esparragoza vs Mitsuru Sugiya



1909: Stanley Ketchell ND 10 Philadelphia Jack O’Brien, NYC.

1914: Percy Jones W 20 Eugene Criqui, Liverpool. Retains World flyweight Title.

1917: Lew Tendler ND 6 Johnny Dundee, Philadelphia.

-Johnny Kilbane D 12 Eddie Wallace, Bridgeport, CT. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1927: Tony Canzoneri D 10 Bud Taylor, Chicago. For vacant NBA Bantamweight Title.

1936: Eder Jofre born.
1957: Eder Jofre KO 3 Raul Lopez, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Jofre’s pro debut.

1983: Jung Koo Chang KO 3 Hilario Zapata, Taejon, South Korea. Wins WBA Junior Flyweight Title.

1988: Fidel Bassa W 12 Dave McAuley, Belfast. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

1989: Antonio Esparragoza KO 10 Mitsuru Sugiya, Kawasaki, Japan. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.

1994: Henry Maske KO 9 Ernesto Magdelano, Dortmund, Germany. Retains IBF Light Heavyweight Title.

2011: Yuriorkis Gamboa KO 4 Jorge Solis, Atlantic City.