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This Week in Boxing History: February 1st – February 7th

February 1, 2016 by Peter Silkov 1 Comment

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February 1

1897: Johnny Wolgast born in Cadillac, Michigan.

1900: Chicago, IL. World Featherweight Championship. ‘Terrible’ Terry McGovern KO 5 Eddie Santry. Retains title.

1904: St. Louis, MO. World Featherweight Championship. Abe Attell KO 5 Harry Forbes. Retains title.

1912: Albert Chalky Wright born in Willcox, Arizona.

1923: Irving Ungerman, boxing promoter, born in Toronto, Canada.

1938: Los Angeles, CA. Henry Armstrong KO 3 Albert ‘Chalky’ Wright.

1946: New York City, NY. World Welterweight Championship. Marty Servo KO 4 Freddie Cochrane. Wins title.

1965: New York City, NY. Floyd Patterson W 12 George Chuvalo.

1970: Rome, Italy. WBC Light Welterweight Championship. Bruno Acari W 15 Pedro Adigue. Wins title.

1978: Tokyo, Japan. WBA Super Bantamweight Championship. Soo Hwan Hong W 15 Yu Kasahara. Retains title.

1980: Caracas, Venezuela. WBC Super Flyweight Championship. Rafael Orono W 15 Seung Hoon Lee. Wins newly created title.

1997: Songnam, South Korea. WBA Junior Lightweight Championship. Yong Soo Choi W 12 Lakva Kim. Retains title.

2002: Phoenix, AZ. IBF Cruiserweight Championship. Vassiliy Jirov W 12 Jorge Castro. Retains title.

2003: Las Vegas, Nevada. IBF Junior Lightweight Championship. Carlos Hernandez KO 8 David Santos. Wins vacant title.

2003: Las Vegas, Nevada. IBF Featherweight Championship. Juan Manuel Marquez KO 7 Manuel Medina. Wins title.

2012: Angelo Dundee dies Clearwater, Florida.

2014: Monaco, Monte Carlo. IBO & WBA Middleweight Championship. Gennady Golovkin W TKO 7 Osumanu Adama. Retains titles.

February 2

1891: Jack Dillon, born Ernest Cutler Price, in Frankfort, Indiana.

1904: Sammy Mandell, born Salvador Mandala, in Piana dei Greci, Sicilia, Italy.

1913: Fred Apostoli born in San Francisco, California.

1918: John L. Sullivan, 59, dies in Abingdon, Massachusetts.

1923: New York City, NY. World Junior Lightweight Championship. Johnny Dundee W 15 Elino Flores. Retains title.

1948: Angel Espada born in Salinas, Puerto Rico.

1970: Rosario, Argentina. Argentina Middleweight Championship. Carlos Monzon KO 6 Antonio Aguilar. Retains title.

1970: Cuernavaca, Mexico. Carlos Zarate’s pro debut. Carlos Zarate KO 3 Luis Castaneda.

1973: Ike Ibeabuchi born in Isuochi, Nigeria.

1979: Willie Limond born in Glasgow, Scotland.

1980: Phoenix, AZ. WBC Featherweight Championship. Salvador Sanchez KO 13 Danny ‘Little Red’ Lopez. Wins title.

1980: Accra, Ghana. Azumah Nelson KO 3 Nii Nuer.

1982: Tokyo, Japan. WBA Light Middleweight Championship. Davey Moore KO 6 Tadashi Mihara. Wins title in just his 9th professional fight.

1985: Panama City, Panama. WBA Featherweight Championship. Eusebio Pedroza W 15 Jorge Lujan. Retains title.

1985: Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WBA Super Bantamweight Championship. Victor Callejas W 15 Seung Hoon Lee. Retains title.

2002: Miami, Florida. WBC, WBA, IBF, IBO, World Light Heavyweight Championship. Roy Jones Jr. KO 7 Glenn Kelly. Retains title.

2002: Reading, PA. WBC, WBA, IBF, World Middleweight Championship. Bernard ‘The Executioner’ Hopkins KO 10 Carl Daniels. Retains title.

2002: Miami, Florida. IBF Light Middleweight Championship. Ronald ‘Winky’ Wright KO 5 Jason Papillion. Retains title.

2005: Former world heavyweight champion Max Schmeling dies in Hollenstedt, Germany aged 99.

February 3

1912: Vernon, CA. Johnny Coulon W 20 Frankie Conley.

1938: Emile Griffith, born Emile Alphonse Griffith, in Solberg, U.S. Virgin Islands.

1939: New York City, NY. New York World Light Heavyweight Championship. Melio Bettina KO 9 Tiger Jack Fox. Wins vacant title.

1966: Jimmy Thunder born in Apia, Samoa.

1980: Las Vegas, Nevada. WBC Heavyweight Championship. Larry Holmes KO 6 Lorenzo Zanon. Retains title.

1980: Las Vegas, Nevada. WBC Super Bantamweight Championship. Wilfredo Gomez KO 7 Ruben Valdez. Retains title.

1981: Tokyo, Japan. WBC Flyweight Championship. Shoji Oguma W 15 Chan Hee Park. Retains title.

1986: James DeGale born in Hammersmith, London, England.

1987: Inglewood, CA. WBA Bantamweight Championship. Bernardo Pinango W 15 Frankie Duarte. Retains title.

1990: Boston, Mass. WBA Middleweight Championship. Mike McCallum W 12 Steve Collins. Retains title.

1990: Atlantic City, NJ. WBC & IBF Lightweight Championship. Pernell ‘Sweet Pea’ Whitaker W 12 Freddie Pendleton. Retains titles.

1991: Nagoya, Japan. WBC Super Bantamweight Championship. Kiyoshi Hatanaka KO 8 Pedro Decima. Wins title.

1993: London, England. WBC Featherweight Championship. Paul Hodkinson KO 4 Ricardo Cepeda. Retains title.

1996: Inglewood, CA. Marco Antonio Barrera KO 12 Kennedy McKinney.

2001: Las Vegas, Nevada. WBA & WBC Light Welterweight Championship. Kostya Tszyu KO 7 Sharmba Mitchell. Retains WBC, wins title.

2007: Kissimmee, FL. WBC Light Heavyweight Championship. Chad Dawson W 12 Tomasz Adamek. Wins title.

2007: Kissimmee, FL. IBF Light Middleweight Championship. Corey Spinks W 12 Rodney Jones. Retains title.

2007: Kissimmee, FL. IBF Lightweight Championship. Julio Diaz KO 3 Jesus Chavez. Wins title.

2014: Haikou, China. WBC World Minimumweight Championship. Oswaldo Novoa TKO 5 Xiong Zhao Zhong. Wins title.

February 4

1909: New Orleans, LA. World Featherweight Championship. Abe Attell KO 7 Eddie Kelly. Retains title.

1927: New York City, NY. World Bantamweight Championship. Charley Phil Rosenberg W 15 Bushy Graham. Retains title.

1952: Miami, FL. World Welterweight Championship. Kid Gavilan W 15 Bobby Dykes. Retains title.

1960: Los Angeles, CA. World Light Welterweight Championship. Carlos Ortiz KO 10 Battling Torres. Retains title.

1960: Los Angeles, CA. World Bantamweight Championship. Jose Becerra KO 9 Alphonse Halimi. Retains title.

1963: Andreas Sidon born in Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1973: Oscar De La Hoya born Montebello, California..

1979: Rimini, Italy. WBC Junior Lightweight Championship. Alexis Arguello KO 13 Alfredo Escalera. Retains title.

1984: Atlantic City, NJ. WBA Welterweight Championship. Donald Curry W 15 Marlon Starling, Retains title.

1989: Las Vegas, Nevada. World Welterweight Championship. Marlon Starling KO 9 Lloyd Honeyghan. Wins title.

1989: Las Vegas, Nevada. WBA Welterweight Championship. Mark Breland KO 1 Seung Soon Lee. Regains vacant title.

1990: Las Vegas, Nevada. IBF Featherweight Championship. Jorge Paez W 12 Troy Dorsey. Retains title.

1990: Ulsan, South Korea. WBA Junior Flyweight Championship. Hiyong Choi W 12 Leo Gamez. Wins title.

2007: Sydney, Australia. IBF Light Welterweight Championship. Lovemore N’dou KO 11 Naoufel Ben Rabah. Wins vacant title.

2012: San Antonio, Texas. WBO World Super Bantamweight Championship. Nonito Donaire W 12 Wilfredo Vazquez. Wins vacant title.

2012: San Antonio, Texas. WBC World Middleweight Championship. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. W 12 Marco Antonio Rubio. Retains title.

2012: Frankfurt, Germany. IBF World Cruiserweight Championship. Yoan Pablo Hernandez W 12 Steve Cunningham. Retains title.

February 5

1934: Miami, Florida. World Light Heavyweight Championship. ‘Slapsie’ Maxie Rosenbloom D 15 Joe Knight. Retains title.

1943: Detroit, Michigan. Jake LaMotta W 10 Sugar Ray Robinson. This was Robinson’s first defeat, after 40 wins in a row as a professional, and 85-0 record in his amateur career.

1943: New York City, NY. Beau Jack W 10 Fritzie Zivic.

1961: Tony Baltazar born in La Puente, California.

1967: New York City, NY. World Light Heavyweight Championship. Dick Tiger W 15 Jose Torres. Retains title.

1970: Chatchai Dutchboy Gym born in Bangkok, Thailand.

1972: Maracay, Venezuela. WBA Featherweight Championship. Antonio Gomez KO 7 Raul Martinez. Retains title.

1974: Tokyo, Japan. World Light Middleweight Championship. Koichi Wajima W 15 Miguel de Oliveria. Retains title.

1977: Mexico City, Mexico. WBC Bantamweight Championship. Carlos Zarate KO 3 Fernando Cabenela. Retains title.

1977: Baltimore, Maryland. Ray Leonard’s pro debut. Sugar Ray Leonard W 6 Luis Vega.

1980: Wandee Chor Chareon born born in Udon Thani, Thailand.

1988: Atlantic City, NJ. WBA Welterweight Championship. Marlin Starling W 12 Fujio Ozaki. Retains title.

1989: Atlantic City, NJ. IBF Light Middleweight Championship. Darrin Van Horn W 12 Robert Hines. Retains title.

1994: Berlin, Germany. WBO World Super Middleweight Championship. Chris Eubank W 12 Graciano Rocchigiani. Retains title.

1996: Osaka, Japan. WBC Flyweight Championship. Yuri Arbachakov W 12 Raul Juarez. Retains title.

1998: 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: Miami, Florida. WBA Featherweight Championship. Antonio Cermeno KO 2 Eddie Saenz. Retains title.

2002: Tokyo, Japan. WBC Super Bantamweight Championship. Willie Jorrin D 12 Osamu Sato. Retains title.

2011: Osaka, Japan. WBC World Super Flyweight Championship. Tomas Rojas W 12 Nobuo Nashiro. Retains title.

2005: St. Louis, MO. IBF, WBC, WBA, World Welterweight Championship. Zab Judah KO 9 Cory Spinks. Wins title.

2015: Nakhon Sawan, Thailand. WBC World Minimumweight Championship. Wanheng Menayothin W 12 Jeffrey Galero. Retains title.

February 6

1931: New York City, NY. Tommy Loughran W 10 Max Baer.

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

1967: Houston, Texas. World Heavyweight Championship. Muhammad Ali W 15 Ernie Terrell. Retains title.

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

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

1988: Atlantic City, NJ. IBF Lightweight Championship. Greg Haugen W 15 Vinny Pazienza. Regains title.

1988: Beltran, Paris. IBF Bantamweight Championship. Kelvin Seabrooks KO 2 Fernando. Retains title.

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

1993: New York City, NY. IBF & WBA World Heavyweight Championship. Riddick ‘Big Daddy’ Bowe KO 1 Michael Dokes. Retains title.

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

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

1998: Uncasville, CT. IBF Lightweight Championship. Sugar Shane Mosley KO 8 Demetrio Ceballos. Retains title.

1999: Washington D.C. IBF Middleweight Championship. Bernard Hopkins KO 7 Robert Allen. Retains title.

1999: Washington D.C. WBA Light Welterweight Championship. Sharmba Mitchell W 12 Pedro Saiz. Retains title.

1999: Johannesburg, South Africa. IBF Super Bantamweight Championship. Vuyani Bungu KO 7 Victor Lierena. Retains title.

2004: Sheffield, England. IBO World Cruiserweight Championship. Carl Thompson KO 9 Sebastian Rothman. Wins title.

2004: Sheffield, England. IBF Light Heavyweight Championship. Glencoffe Johnson W 12 Clinton Woods. Wins vacant title.

2010: Monterrey, Mexico. WBC World Lightweight Championship. Edwin Valero W RTD 10 Antonio DeMarco. Retains title.

February 7

1882: Mississippi City, Mississippi. Bare-knuckle Heavyweight Championship. John L. Sullivan KO 9 Paddy Ryan. Wins Title.

1916: New Orleans, LA. World Bantamweight Championship. Kid Williams D 20 Pete Herman. Retains title.

1921: New York City, NY. World Welterweight Championship. Jack Britton W 15 Ted ‘Kid’ Lewis. Retains title.

1934: New Orleans, LA. World Light Welterweight Championship. Barney Ross W 12 Polo Nebo. Retains title.

1952: Battling Nelson dies in Chicago, Illinois.

1955: Ross Greenburg born.

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

1970: Abe Attell, 85, dies in New Paltz, New York.

1974: Dave McQuaker born in Canada.

1977: Francis Barrett born in Galway, Ireland.

1978: Marcelo Alejandro Rodriguez born in Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1981: Ibrahim Lopez born in La Laguna, Islas Canarias, Spain.

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

1988: Seoul, S. Korea. WBA Junior Flyweight Championship. Myung Woo Yuh W 12 Willy Salazar. Retains title.

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

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

2009: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. WBA World Light Welterweight Championship. Andres Kotelnik W 12 Marcos Rene Maidana. Retains title.

2009: Anaheim, CA. WBA/WBA/IBF Super Flyweight Championship. Vic Darchinyan KO 12 Jorge Arce. Retains titles.

2009: Puerto Madryn, Chabut, Argentina. WBO World Flyweight Championship. Omar Narvaez TKO 10 Rayonta Whitfield. Retains title.

2010: Kobe, Japan. WBA World Flyweight Championship. Daiki Kameda W 12 Denkaosan Kaovichit. Wins title.

Peter Silkov
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