This day in boxing. A look back.

[IamInuit]

Melchior Cob Castro is training fighters in Texas now. He and Gonzalez were close friends and trained together often; they had sparring sessions that were wars. Knowing that Mancini/Bramble was 31 years ago makes me feel ancient.

You just had to say something eh. I have spoken that very thing to myself several times in the process of making this thread. On several occasions I've actually had flashbacks of the florescent orange or lime green shag rug on the living room floor which depending on the time of year could also double as a ghillie suit.


I always liked Bramble and if he was not such a Rasta he may have done a lot more then he did. Way better fighter then his regard suggests.

[IamInuit]

June 2

Fight of the day

Alejandro Gonzalez vs Tony Green



1891: Charles (Kid) McCoy W 4 Pete Jenkins, St. Paul. McCoy’s pro debut.

1894: Jimmy Barry W 11 Jimmy Gorman, New Orleans.

1913: Bill Ladbury KO 11 Sid Smith, London. Wins World Flyweight Title.

1923: Eugene Criqui KO 6 Johnny Kilbane, NYC. Wins World Featherweight Title.

1924: Mickey Walker W 10 Lew Tendler, Philadelphia. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1956: Luis Rodriguez KO 3 Lazaro Hernandez, Havana. Rodriguez’ pro debut.

1958: Emile Griffith W 4 Joe Parham, NYC. Griffith’s pro debut.

1973: Carlos Monzon W 15 Emile Griffith, Monte Carlo. Retains World Middleweight Title.

-Roberto Duran KO 8 Hector Thompson, Panama City. Retains World Lightweight Title.

1976: Andy Price W 10 Pipino Cuevas, Los Angeles.

1978: Wilfredo Gomez KO 3 Sakad Porntavee, Korat, Thailand. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

1984: Carlos De Leon W 12 Bash Ali, Oakland. Retains WBC Cruiserweight Title.

1989: Antonio Esparragoza KO 6 Jean-Marc Renard, Namur, Belgium. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.

1990: Marcos Villasana KO 8 Paul Hodkinson, Manchester. Wins vacant WBC Featherweight Title.

-Welcome Ncita KO 7 Ramon Cruz, Rome Retains Retains IBF Super Bantamweight Title.

1995: Miguel Angel Gonzalez W 12 Marty Jakubowski, Ledyard, CT. Retains WBC Lightweight Title.

-Alejandro Gonzalez KO 9 Tony Green, Ledyard, CT. Retains WBC Featherweight Title.

-Hector Acero-Sanchez D 12 Daniel Zaragoza, Ledyard, CT. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

-Marco Antonio Barrera KO 2 Frankie Toledo, Ledyard, CT.

2000: Zolani Potelo KO 8 Mickey Cantwell, Ashford, England. Retains IBF Strawweight Title.

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June 3

Fight of the day. Who won this fight?

1979:Lupe Pintor vs Carlos Zarate







1909: Jack Johnson ND 6 Tony Ross, Pittsburgh.

1926: Jack Delaney KO 2 Tommy Burns, Brooklyn.

-Tod Morgan KO 6 Kid Sullivan, Brooklyn. Retains World Super Featherweight Title.

1927: Joe Dundee W 15 Pete Latzo, NYC. Wins World Welterweight Title.

1935: Marcel Thil W 15 Ignacio Ara, Madrid. Retains World Middleweight Title.

1937: John Henry Lewis KO 8 Bob Olin, St. Louis. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1947: Sandy Saddler D 10 Jimmy Carter, Washington, DC

1959: Joe (Old Bones) Brown KO 9 Paolo Rosi, Washington, D.C. Retains World Lightweight Title.

1961: Emile Griffith KO 12 Gasper Ortega, NYC. Retains World Welterweight Title.

1971: Kuniaki Shibata KO 1 Raul Cruz, Tokyo. Retains WBC Featherweight Title.

1972: Betulio Gonzalez KO 4 Socrates Batoto, Caracas. Wins vacant WBC Flyweight Title.

1974: Oscar Albarado KO 15 Koichi Wajima, Tokyo. Wins World Super Welterweight Title.

1978: Alexis Arguello KO 1 Diego Alcala, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Retains WBC Super Featherweight Title.

1979: Sang Hyun Kim W 15 Fitzroy Guisseppi, Seoul. Retains WBC Super Lightweight Title.

-Lupe Pintor W 15 Carlos Zarate, Las Vegas. Wins WBC Bantamweight Title. Carlos was seriously boned up the ass in this one.

1982: Lupe Pintor KO 11 Seung Hoon Lee, Los Angeles. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title.

1988: Graciano Rocchigiani W 15 Nicky Walker, Berlin. Retains IBF Super Middleweight Title.

1989: Glenn McCrory W 12 Patrick Lumumba, Stanley, England. Wins vacant IBF Cruiserweight Title.

-Sot Chitalada W 12 Yong Kang Kim, Trang Thailand. Thailand. Wins Regains WBC Flyweight Title.

1991: Thomas Hearns W 12 Virgil Hill, Las Vegas. Wins WBA Light Heavyweight Title.

-Troy Dorsey KO 1 Alfred Rangel, Las Vegas. Wins vacant IBF Featherweight Title.

2000: Sven Ottke W 12 Tucker Pudwill, Karlsruhe, Germany. Retains IBF Super Middleweight Title.

2006: Nikolay Valuev KO 3 Owen Beck, Hannover, Germany. Retains WBA Heavyweight Title.

-Vic Darchinyan KO 8 Luis Maldonado, Las Vegas. Retains IBF Flyweight Title.

[Master]

Information overload. I need time to watch these fighters as I know they were very good.

[IamInuit]

June 4

Fight of the day

2005: Ricky Hatton vs Kostya Tszyu



1908: Stanley Ketchel W 10 Billy Papke, Milwaukee. Retains World Middleweight Title.

1971: Jose Napoles KO 4 Billy Backus, Inglewood. Regains World Welterweight Title.

1986: Buster Drayton W 15 Carlos Santos, East Rutherford, NJ. Wins IBF Super Welterweight Title.

-Jimmy Paul W 15 Cubanito Perez, East Rutherford, NJ. Retains IBF Lightweight Title.

-Bernardo Pinango W 15 Gaby Canizales, East Rutherford. Wins WBA Bantamweight Title.

1990: Humberto (Chiquita) Gonzalez KO 3 Carlos Monzote, Inglewood. Retains WBC Junior Flyweight Title.

1994: Henry Maske W 12 Andrea Magi, Dortmund, Germany. Retains IBF Light Heavyweight Title.

-Ike Quartey KO KO 11 Crisanto Espana, Levallois Perret, Paris, France. Wins WBA Welterweight Title.

2004: Lorenzo Parra W 12 Takefumi Sakaka, Tokyo. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

2005: Ricky Hatton KO 11 Kostya Tszyu, Manchester, England. Wins World Super Lightweight Title.

2007: Eagle Kyowa W 12 Akira Yaegashi, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBC Strawweight Title.

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June 5

Fight of the day

Moore is the champ and comes in first, gets introduced first and booed while the challenger from Trinidad gets an ovation and comes in second and introduced second in London.

Good ole Commonwealth lol

1956: Archie Moore vs Yolande Pompey





1889: James J. Corbett KO 27 Joe Choynski, Benecia, CA.

1900: Eddie Connolly W 25 Matty Matthews, Brooklyn. Wins World Welterweight Title.

1922: Sam Langford KO 2 Tiger Flowers, Atlanta.

1925: Gene Tunney KO 12 Tommy Gibbons, NYC.

1940: Billy Conn W 15 Gus Lesnevich, Detroit. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1943: Kid Gavilan W 4 Antonio Diaz, Havana. Gavilan’s pro debut.

1950: Sugar Ray Robinson W 15 Robert Villemain, Philadelphia. Wins vacant Pennsylvania World Middleweight Title.

1952: Jersey Joe Walcott W 15 Ezzard Charles, Philadelphia. So ended their rivalry 2-2

1956: Archie Moore KO 10 Yolande Pompey, London. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1958: Virgil Akins KO 4 Vince Martinez, St. Louis. Wins vacant World Welterweight Title.

1965: Flash Elorde KO 15 Teruo Kosaka, Quezon City. Retains World Super Featherweight Title.

1971: Vicente Rondon KO 1 Piero Del Papa, Caracas. Retains WBA Light Heavyweight Title.

1975: Ishimatsu Suzuki W 15 Tury Pineda, Osaka. Retains WBC Lightweight Title.

1982: Samuel Serrano W tech. 10 Benedicto Villablanca, Santiago, Chile. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.

1989: Gilberto Roman W 12 Juan Carazo, Inglewood. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.

1992: Jeff Harding KO 8 Chris Tiozzo, Marseille. Retains WBC Light Heavyweight Title.

1998: Juan Carlos Gomez KO 6 Guy Waters, Hamburg, Germany. Retains WBC Cruiserweight Title.

-Yory Boy Campas KO 11 Pedro Ortega, Tijuana, MX. Retains IBF Super Welterweight Title.

1999: Vassily Jirov KO 7 Arthur Williams, Biloxi, MS. Wins IBF Cruiserweight Title.

-Roy Jones Jr. W 12 Reggie Johnson, Biloxi. Retains WBC/WBA and wins Johnson’s IBF Light Heavyweight Title.

2001: Camille Ewald, 96, the woman Mike Tyson considered his adopted mother, dies at her home in Catskill, New York.

2004: Cristian Sanavia W 12 Markus Beyer, Chemnitz, Germany. Wins WBC Super Middleweight Title.

-Bernard Hopkins W 12 Robert Allen, Las Vegas. Retains World Middleweight Title. Hopkins 18th title defense.

-Oscar De La Hoya W 12 Felix Sturm, Las Vegas. Definitely not Oscar’s best night.

-Verno Phillips KO 6 Carlos Bojorquez, Joplin, MO. Wins vacant IBF Super Welterweight Title.

-Jose Luis Castillo W 12 Juan Lazcano, Las Vegas. Wins vacant World Lightweight Title.

2010: Steve Cunningham KO 5 Troy Ross, Neubrandenburg, Germany. Regains IBF Cruiserweight Title.

-Sebastian Sylvester D 12 Roman Karmazin, Germany. Retains IBF Middleweight Title.

-Miguel Cotto KO 9 Yuri Foreman, NYC. Wins WBA Super Welterweight Title.

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June 6

Fight of the day

1988:Roger Mayweather vs Harold Brazier






1894: Harry Greb born Edward Henry Greb.

1917: Jack Britton ND 12 Ted (Kid) Lewis, St. Louis.

1921: Benny Leonard ND 12 Rocky Kansas, Harrison, NJ.

1927: Battling Battalino KO 2 Archie Rosenberg, Hartford, CT. Battalino’s pro debut.

1953: Carmen Basilio W 12 Billy Graham, Syracuse. Wins New York State Welterweight Title.

1981: Luis Ibarra W 15 Santos Laciar, Buenos Aires. Regains WBA Flyweight Title.

1985: Alfonzo Ratliff W 12 Carlos De Leon, Las Vegas. Wins WBC Cruiserweight Title.

-Michael Spinks KO 8 Jim MacDonald, Las Vegas. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title.

1988: Virgil Hill W 12 Ramzi Hassan, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Light Heavyweight Title.

-Iran Barkley KO 3 Thomas (Hit Man) Hearns, Las Vegas. Wins WBC Middleweight Title.

-Roger Mayweather W 12 Harold Brazier, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Super Lightweight Title.

2003: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam W 12 Randy Mangubat, Songkla, Thailand. Retains WBC Flyweight Title