This day in boxing. A look back.

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Dec 22..busy day


Fight of the day

1991:Ricardo Lopez vs Kyung Yun Lee




1991: Khaosai Galaxy W 12 Armando Castro, Bangkok. Retains WBA Super Flyweight Title. Galaxy would retire afterward with a 49-1(43) record, including 19 title defenses. Dude was knocking on Marciano's door.

Sung Kil Moon KO 6 Torsak Pongsupa, Inchon, S. Korea. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.

Ricardo Lopez W 12 Kyung Yun Lee, Inchon, S. Korea. Retains WBC Strawweight Title.

[Master]

Galaxy was a sawn off Hagler.

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Dec 23


Fight of the day


1997:Satoshi Iida vs Yokthai Sithoar



1902: Harry Forbes KO 7 Frankie Neil, Oakland. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1903: Jack Blackburn W 12 Sam Langford, Boston.

1939: Ceferino Garcia KO 13 Glenn Lee, Manila. Retains World Middleweight Title.

1985: Khaosai Galaxy KO 2 Edgar Monserrat, Bangkok. Retains WBA Super Flyweight Title.

1993: Yasuei Yakushiji W 12 Jung-Il Byun, Nagoya, Japan. Wins WBC Bantamweight Title.

1997: Satoshi Iida W 12 Yokthai Sithoar, Nagoya, Japan. Wins WBA Super Flyweight Title.

1998: Jesus Rojas W 12 Satoshi Iida, Nagoya, Japan. Wins WBA Super Flyweight Title.

2008: Daisuke Naito KO 11 Shingo Yamaguchi, Tokyo. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.

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Dec 24


Fight of the day. The footage is a little rough. Not many choices on the day but even so check out how ripped these two guys are. 100 pounds of chiseled freakin granite.


1983: Soon Chun Kwon vs Rene Busayong IBF fly title



1934: Freddie Miller W 10 Panama Al Brown, Paris. A few notes on Al.

First Hispanic world champion.
Never knocked out
Only dropped once in close to 170 fights, losing only 19 of those.
Looks a little Tommy Hearns. Might as well have been at 5'10 and a bantam.

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Dec 25


Fight of the day. There is not one to be had so I put in a sub lol. Thugs messing with the wrong guy.
Merry xmas.


1905: Joe Jeanette KO 8 Sam Langford, Lawrence, MA.

1923: Harry Greb W 10 Tommy Loughran, Pittsburgh.

1933: Frankie Klick KO 7 Kid Chocolate, Philadelphia. Wins World Super Featherweight Title.

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Dec 26


Fight of the day NA. So take it away Muhammad......




1908: Jack Johnson KO 14 Tommy Burns, Sydney, Australia. Wins World Heavyweight Title.

1912: Sam Langford KO 13 Sam McVey, Sydney, Australia.

1930: Frankie Genaro D 15 Midget Wolgast, NYC. Retains NBA Flyweight Title.

1986: Bobby Czyz KO 1 David Sears, West Orange, NJ. Retains IBF Light Heavyweight Title.

1994: Saensor Ploenchit KO 11 Danny Nunez, Rayong, Thailand. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

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Dec 27


Fight of the day. Another sub. Classic kick boxing.

Jean Yves Theriault vs Ernesto Hoost




1943: Phil Terranova KO 6 Jackie Callura, New Orleans. Retains NBA Featherweight Title.

1987: Seung Hoon Lee W 15 Jose Sanabria, Pohang, S. Korea. Retains IBF Super Bantamweight Title.

2006: Muhammad Rachman KO 7 Benjie Sorolla, Jakarta. Retains IBF Strawweight Title.

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Dec 28


Fight of the day

2004: Israel Vasquez vs Art Simonyan IBF Super Bantamweight Title



1936: Billy Conn W 10 Fritzie Zivic, Pittsburgh.

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Dec 29


Fight of the day

2007: Steve Cunningham vs Marco Huck



1977: Saensak Muangsurin KO 14 Jo Kimpuani, Chanthaburi, Thailand. Retains WBC Super Lightweight Title.

1998: Veerapol Sahaprom KO 6 Joichiro Tatsuyoshi, Osaka, Japan. Wins WBC Bantamweight Title.

2007: Steve Cunningham KO 12 Marco Huck, Bielefeld, Germany. Retains IBF Cruiserweight Title.

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Dec 30


Fight of the day


1966: Chartchai Chionoi vs Walter McGowan



1966: Chartchai Chionoi KO 9 Walter McGowan, Bangkok. Wins WBC Flyweight Title.

1970: Sonny Liston, 38 most likely older dies at his home in Las Vegas.

1978: Sang Hyun Kim KO 13 Saensak Muangsurin, Seoul. Wins WBC Super Lightweight Title.

2008: Denkaosan Kaovichit KO 2 Takefumi Sakata, Hiroshima, Japan. Wins WBA Flyweight Title.

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Dec 31

This would be the day to attack an enemy.

Sub: Fairly decent ko compilation.

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Jan 1


Fight of the day. Could not find a suitable copy of anything so.........




1903: Joe Gans DQ 11 Gus Gardner, New Connecticut. Retains world lightweight title.

1907: Joe Gans KO 8 Kid Herman, Tonopah, NV. Retains world lightweight title.

1908: Abe Attell Draw 25 Owen Moran, Colma, CA. Retained world featherweight title.

1914: Waldemar Holberg W 20 Ray Bronson, Melbourne. Wins vacant world welterweight title.

-Johnny Dundee ND 10 Freddie Welsh, New Orleans.

1934: Freddie Miller W 10 Jack Sharkey, Cincinnati. Retains NBA featherweight title.

1935: Baby Arizmendi W 12 Henry Armstrong, Mexico City. Wins vacant Calif. & Mexican world featherweight title.

1937: Freddie Steele W 10 Gorilla Jones, Milwaukee. Retains NBA & NY. World middleweight title.

1943: Manuel Ortiz W 10 Kenny Lindsay, Portland OR. Retains world bantamweight title.

1977: Guty Espadas KO 7 JiroTakada, Tokyo. Retains WBA flyweight title.

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Jan 2


Fight of the day

2000: In-Joo Cho vs Gerry Penalosa



1957: Gene Fullmer W 15 Sugar Ray Robinson, NYC. Wins world middleweight title.

1973: Masao Ohba KO 12 Chatchai Chionoi, Tokyo. Retains WBA flyweight title. 3 weeks later Ohba is killed in a car wreck. Ohba was 23 years old when he died with a career mark of 35-2-1 (15).

1978: Guty Espadas KO 7 Kimio Furesawa, Tokyo. Retains WBA flyweight title.

2000: In-Joo Cho W 12 Gerry Penalosa, Seoul. Retains WBC Super flyweight Title.

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Jan 3


Fight of the day. Harada was something else. The great Eder Jofre only lost twice over his career. Both times to Harada.


1967: Fighting Harada vs Jose Medel



1916: Harry Wills W 20 Sam Langford, New Orleans. Referee Tommy Burns. Wills defends his World ‘coloured’ heavyweight title claim. …

At the end Burns caught Langford’s hand and said to him, “Sam, this is the hardest I ever had to do in my life. I always admired you and never thought to see you beaten, but I have to give the decision against you.”

Calgary Herald

1967: Fighting Harada W 15 Jose Medel, Nagoya. Retains world bantamweight title

1971: Yoshiaki Numata W 15 Rene Barrientos, Shizuaka, Japan. Retains WBC super-featherweight title.

1976: Jaime Rios W 15 Kazunori Tenryu, Kagoshima. Retains WBA junior-flyweight title.

1985: Ji Won Kim KO 10 Seung II Suh, Seoul. Retains IBF super-bantamweight title.

1988: Gianfranco Rosi KO 7 Duane Thomas, Genoa, Italy. Retains WBC super-welterweight title.
2004: Acelino Freitas W 12 Arthur Grigorian, Ledyard, CN. Freitas, now 35-0(31), wins easily.

-Masamori Tokuyama W 12 Dimitri Kirilov, Osaka, Japan. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.

-Alexander Munoz KO 10 Eiji Kojima, Osaka, Japan. Retains WBA Super Flyweight Title.

-Pongsaklek Wonjongkam W 12 Masaki Nakanuma, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.

2005: Katsushige Kawashima W 12 Jose Navarro, Tokyo. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title. Referee: Mark Green. Judge: William Boodhoo 109-120 | Judge: Gelasio Pérez 115-114 | Judge: Noppharat Sricharoen 115-113. Judge William Boodhoo scores every round for Navarro. Very controversial decision.

-Lorenzo Parra W 12 Trash Nakanuma, Tokyo. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

2007: Edwin Valero KO 1 Michael Lozada, Tokyo. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.

-Cristian Mijares KO 10 Katsushige Kawashima, Tokyo. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.

2009: Paulus Moses W 12 Yusuke Kobori, Yokohama, Japan. Wins vacant WBA Lightweight Title.

-Toshiaki Nishioka KO 12 Genaro Garcia, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

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Jan 4


Fight of the day

2003: Luis Perez vs Felix Machado



1940: Henry Armstrong KO 5 Joe Ghnouly, St. Louis. Retains world welterweight title.

1964: Eddie Perkins KO 13 Yoshinori Takahashi, Tokyo. Retains world super-lightweight title.

1965: Ruben Olivares KO 1 Isidro Sotelo, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Olivares’ pro debut.

1978: Miguel Canto W 15 Shoji Oguma, Koriyama, Japan. Retains WBC flyweight title.

2003: Luis Perez W 12 Felix Machado, Washington D.C. Wins IBF Super Flyweight Title.