Mar 31

Fight of the day

1980:Eddie Gregory vs Marvin Johnson




1903: Young Corbett KO 11 Terry McGovern, San Francisco. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1908: Abe Attell D 15 Battling Nelson, San Francisco.

1911: Ad Wolgast KO 5 Anton LaGrave, San Francisco. Retains World Lightweight Title.

1916: Benny Leonard ND 10 Freddie Welsh, NYC.

1939: Henry Armstrong KO 12 Davey Day, NYC. Retains World Welterweight Title. Armstrong’s 3rd defense in 27-days.

1942: Rocky Graziano KO 2 Curtis Hightower, Brooklyn. Graziano’s professional debut.

1950: Rocky Graziano D 10 Tony Janiro, NYC.

1973: Ken Norton W 12 Muhammad Ali, San Diego. Ali talking when he should have been listening got his jaw busted in round 2.

1980: Larry Holmes KO 8 Le Roy Jones, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Heavyweight Title.

-Mike Weaver KO 15 John Tate, Knoxville. Wins WBA Heavyweight Title. At the time on the knockout, Tate led on all cards, 137-134, 136-133, 138-133.

-Marvin Camel W 15 Mate Parlov, Las Vegas. Wins newly created WBC Cruiserweight Title.

-Eddie Gregory KO 11 Marvin Johnson, Knoxville. Wins WBA Light Heavyweight Title.

-Sugar Ray Leonard KO 4 Davey (Boy) Green, Landover, MD. Retains WBC Welterweight Title.

1984: Wifredo Gomez W 12 Juan La Porte, Hato Rey. Wins WBC Featherweight Title.

1990: Terry Norris KO 1 John Mugabi, Tampa. Wins WBC Super Welterweight Title.

1993: Ricardo Lopez KO 9 Kwang-Soo Oh, Seoul. Retains WBC Strawweight Title.

1995: Alejandro Gonzalez W 12 Louie Espinosa, Anaheim. Retains WBC Featherweight Title.

-Marco Antonio Barrera W 12 Daniel Jimenez, Anaheim.

-Humberto Gonzalez KO 5 Jesus Zuniga, Anaheim. Retains WBC/IBF Junior Flyweight Title.

2007: Henry Maske W 12 Virgil Hill, München, Germany.