March 21
1914: Sydney, Australia. World Welterweight Championship. Matt Wells W 20 Tom McCormick. Wins title.
1914: Paris, France. Joe Jeanette W 15 Georges Carpentier.
1924: New York City, NY. World Bantamweight Championship. Abe Goldstein W 15 Joe Lynch. Wins title.
1930: New York City, NY. New York World Flyweight Championship. Midget Wolgast W 15 Black Bill. Wins vacant title.
1933: Los Angeles, CA. World Featherweight Championship. Freddie Miller W 10 Speedy Dado. Retains title.
1938: Pittsburgh, PA. Fritzie Zivic W 10 Charley Burley.
1941: Detroit, Michigan. World Heavyweight Championship. Joe Louis KO 13 Abe Simon. Retains title.
1952: Alfredo Escalera born in Puerto Rico.
1953: Johannesburg, South Africa. World Bantamweight Championship. Jimmy Carruthers KO 10 Vic Toweel. Retains title.
1961: Leslie Stewart born in Laventille, Trinidad And Tobago.
1963: Los Angeles, CA. World Welterweight Championship. Luis Rodriguez W 15 Emile Griffith. Wins title.
1963: Los Angeles, CA. World Light Welterweight Championship. Roberto Cruz KO 1 Battling Torres. Wins vacant title.
1963: Los Angeles, CA. World Featherweight Championship. Sugar Ramos KO 11 Davey Moore. Wins title.
1975: Mahyar Monshipour born in Tehran, Iran.
1975: Souleymane M’Baye born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
1982: Las Vegas, Nevada. WBC World Light Heavyweight Championship. Dwight Qawi KO 6 Jerry Martin. Retains title.
1982: Atlantic City, New Jersey. WBA World Light Welterweight Championship. Aaron Pryor KO 12 Miguel Montilla. Retains title.
1988: Tokyo, Japan. World Heavyweight Championship. Mike Tyson KO 2 Tony Tubbs. Retains title.
1997: Atlantic City, New Jersey. WBC World Light Heavyweight Championship. Montell Griffin W disq. 9 Roy Jones Jr. Wins title.
1998: Hammanskraal, South Africa. IBF World Strawweight Championship. Zolani Petelo W 12 Faisol Akbar. Retains title.
2009: Stuttgart, Germany. WBC World Heavyweight Championship. Vitali Klitschko W RSC 9 Juan Carlos Gomez. Retains title.
March 22
1815:Ben Caunt, future Bareknuckle Heavyweight Champion of England, born in Hucknall, Torkard, Notts, England.
1891: Tommy Gibbons born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
1898: San Francisco, California. James J. Jeffries KO 3 Peter Jackson.
1926: Philadelphia, PA. Jack Delaney W 10 ‘Slapsie’ Maxie Rosenbloom.
1933: Chicago, Illinois. Barney Ross W 10 Billy Petrolle.
1967: New York City, NY. World Heavyweight Championship. Muhammad Ali KO 7 Zora Folley. Retains title.
1980: Joseph Agbeko born in Accra, Ghana.
1981: Las Vegas, Nevada. WBC World Featherweight Championship. Salvador Sanchez KO 10 Roberto Castanon. Retains title.
1986: Las Vegas, Nevada. WBC World Heavyweight Championship. Trevor Berbick W 12 Pinklon Thomas. Wins title.
1986: Las Vegas, Nevada. WBC World Cruiserweight Championship. Carlos De Leon W 12 Bernard Benton. Regains title. Deleon wins title for the 3rd time.
1986: Reno, Nevada. WBA World Cruiserweight Championship. Dwight Muhammad Qawi KO 6 Leon Spinks. Retains title.
1993: Los Angeles, CA. Carlos Gonzalez KO 1 Tony Baltazar.
1997: Corpus Cristi, TX. WBC World Junior Lightweight Championship. Genaro Hernandez W 12 Azumah Nelson. Wins title.
1997: Saraburi, Thailand. IBF World Strawweight Championship. Ratanapol Sow Voraphin KO 4 Luis Doria. Retains title.
2003: Campione D’Italia, Italy. IBF World Welterweight Championship. Cory Spinks W 12 Michele Piccirillo, Wins title.
2008: Cardiff, Wales. WBA World Light Welterweight Championship. Andreas Kotelnik KO 12 Gavin Rees. Wins title.
2008: Cabazon, CA. Interim WBO World Lightweight Championship. Joel Casamayor KO 10 Michael Katsidis. Retains title.
2014: Monterrey, Mexico. WBO World Minimumweight Championship. Francisco Rodriguez Jr. W RSC 10 Merlito Sabillo. Wins title.
2014: Mickey Duff, boxer, manager, matchmaker, and promoter, dies in London, England at the age of 84.
2014: Panama City, Panama. WBA Super World Bantamweight Championship. Anselmo Moreno W 12 Javier Nicolas Chacon. Retains title.
March 23
1893: Johnny Wilson, World Middleweight Champion, born in New York, New York.
1900: New York City, NY. World Lightweight Championship. Frank Erne KO 12 Joe Gans. Retains title.
1913: Sixto Escobar born in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico.
1917: St. Paul, Minnesota. Battling Levinsky ND 10 Tommy Gibbons.
1948: Belfast, N. Ireland. NBA World Flyweight Championship. Rinty Monaghan KO 7 Jackie Paterson. Retains title.
1972: Joe Calzaghe born in Hammersmith, London.
1979: Las Vegas, Nevada. WBC World Heavyweight Championship. Larry Holmes KO 7 Osvaldo Ocasio. Retains title.
1979: Las Vegas, Nevada. Earnie Shavers KO 1 Ken Norton.
1996: Miami, Florida. WBA World Cruiserweight Championship. Nate Miller KO 9 Brian LaSpada. Retains title.
1996: New York City, NY. IBF World Junior Lightweight Championship. Arturo Gatti KO 6 Wilson Rodriguez. Retains title.
1996: Miami, Florida. WBA World Super Bantamweight Championship. Antonio Cermeno W 12 Yober Ortega. Retains title.
1998: Ledyard, CT. IBF World Light Middleweight Championship. Yory Boy Campas KO 3 Anthony Stephens. Retains title.
2001: Owensboro, KY. WBA World Super Bantamweight Championship. Clarence ‘Bones’ Adams W 12 Ivan Alvarez. Retains title.
2002: Yokohama, Japan. WBC World Super Flyweight Championship. Masamori Tokuyama KO 9 Kazuhiro Ryuko. Retains title.
2013: Magdeburg, Germany. WBO World Super Middleweight Championship. Robert Stieglitz W RSC 4 Arthur Abraham. Regains title.
March 24
1866: Jack McAuliffe born in Cork, Ireland.
1899: San Francisco, California. Kid McCoy W 20 Joe Choynski.
1923: Harold Dade born in Chicago, Illinois.
1924: Baltimore, Maryland. World Middleweight Championship. Harry Greb KO 12 Fay Kaiser. Retains title.
1932: New York City, NY. Billy Petrolle KO 12 Battling Battalino.
1933: New York City, NY. World Light Heavyweight Championship. ‘Slapsie’ Maxie Rosenbloom KO 4 Bob Goodwin. Retains title.
1938: Liverpool, England. World Flyweight Championship. Benny Lynch D 15 Peter Kane. Retains title.
1950: New York City, NY. Rocky Marciano W 10 Roland La Starza.
1962: New York City, NY. World Welterweight Championship. Emile Griffith KO 12 Benny ‘Kid’ Paret. Regains title.
1970: Buster Mathis Jr. born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1975: Cleveland, Ohio. World Heavyweight Championship. Muhammad Ali KO 15 Chuck Wepner. Retains title.
1978: Hugo Cazares born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico.
1980: Tokyo, Japan. WBC World Junior Flyweight Championship. Hilario Zapata W 15 Shigeo Nakajima. Wins title.
1988: Los Angeles, CA. WBC World Light Welterweight Championship. Roger Mayweather KO 3 Mauricio Aceves. Retains title.
1990: Ajaccio, Corsica. WBA World Light Welterweight Championship. Juan Coggi W 12 Jose Luis Ramirez. Retains title.
1990: Mexico City, Mexico. WBC World Junior Flyweight Championship. Humberto ‘Chiquita’ Gonzalez KO 3 Francisco Tejedor. Retains title.
2000: Juan Zurita dies in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
2001: Las Vegas, Nevada. IBF World Cruiserweight Championship. Vassiliy Jirov KO 1 Terry McGroom. Retains title.
2001: Magdeburg, Germany. IBF World Super Middleweight Championship. Sven Ottke KO 8 James Crawford. Retains title.
2001: Las Vegas, Nevada. Oscar De La Hoya KO 5 Arturo Gatti.
2007: Copenhagen, Denmark. WBA & WBC World Super Middleweight Championship. Mikkel Kessler W 12 Librado Andrade. Retains title.
2012: Brakpan, South Africa. IBF World Super Bantamweight Championship. Jeffrey Mathebula W 12 Takalani Ndlovu. Wins title.
March 25
1904: Baltimore, Maryland. Joe Gans W 15 Jack Blackburn.
1916: New York City, NY. World Heavyweight Championship. Jess Willard No Decision 10 Frank Moran. Retains title.
1926: Laszlo Papp born in Budapest, Hungary.
1929: Chicago, Illinois. NBA World Welterweight Championship. Jackie Fields W 10 Young Jack Thompson. Wins vacant title.
1931: Madrid, Spain. World Flyweight Championship. Frankie Genaro D 15 Victor Ferrand. Retains title.
1956: Mexico City, Mexico. NBA World Bantamweight Championship. Raul Macias KO 10 Leo Espinosa. Retains title.
1958: Chicago, Illinois. World Middleweight Championship. Sugar Ray Robinson W 15 Carmen Basilio. Wins title again!
1961: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. NBA World Bantamweight Championship. Eder Jofre KO 10 Piero Rollo. Retains title.
1966: Humberto Gonzalez born in Nezahualcóyotl, México.
1974: Caracas, Venezuela. World Heavyweight Championship. George Foreman KO 2 Ken Norton. Retains title.
1975: Rafael Marquez born in Mexico City, Mexico.
1976: Wladimir Klitschko born in Zhangiztobe, Kazakhstan.
1979: San Juan, Puerto Rico. WBC World Welterweight Championship. Wilfred Benitez W 15 Harold Weston Jr. Retains title.
1989: Casablanca, Morocco. WBA World Cruiserweight Championship. Taoufik BelBouli KO 8 Michael Greer. Wins vacant title.
1989: Las Vegas, Nevada. IBF World Middleweight Championship. Michael Nunn KO 1 Sumbu Kalambay. Retains title.
1991: Inglewood, California. WBC World Junior Flyweight Championship. Melchor Cob Castro KO 10 Rolando Pascua. Wins title.
2006: Kobe, Japan. WBC World Bantamweight Championship. Hozumi Hasegawa KO 9 Veeraphol Sahaprom. Retains title.
2006: Guadalajara, Mexico. IBF World Junior Flyweight Championship. Ulises Solis KO 9 Eric Ortiz. Retains title.
March 26
1909: New York City, NY. Stanley Ketchel ND 10 Philadelphia Jack O’Brien. Ketchel floored O’Brien 4 times in the final round, and had him out cold after knocking him down for the 4th time, but the bell sounded ending the fight when the count was at 4, saving O’Brien from a knockout defeat.
1914: Liverpool, England. World Flyweight Championship. Percy Jones W 20 Eugene Criqui. Retains title.
1917: Philadelphia, PA. Lew Tendler ND 6 Johnny Dundee.
1917: Bridgeport, CT. World Featherweight Championship. Johnny Kilbane D 12 Eddie Wallace. Retains title.
1927: Chicago, Illinois. NBA World Bantamweight Championship. Tony Canzoneri D 10 Bud Taylor. For vacant title.
1936: Eder Jofre born in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1957: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Eder Jofre’s pro debut. Eder Jofre KO 3 Raul Lopez.
1971: Irene Pacheco born in San Juan de Uraba, Colombia.
1976: Joachim Alcine born in Gonaive, Haiti.
1983: Taejon, South Korea. WBA World Junior Flyweight Championship. Jung Koo Chang KO 3 Hilario Zapata. Wins title.
1988: George Groves born in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom.
1988: Belfast, Northern Ireland. WBA World Flyweight Championship. Fidel Bassa W 12 Dave McAuley. Retains title.
1989: Kawasaki, Japan. WBA World Featherweight Championship. Antonio Esparragoza KO 10 Mitsuru Sugiya. Retains title.
1994: Dortmund, Germany. IBF World Light Heavyweight Championship. Henry Maske KO 9 Ernesto Magdelano. Retains title.
2010: East London, South Africa. IBF World Minimumweight Championship. Nkosinathi Joyi W 12 Raul Garcia. Wins title.
2011: Johannesburg, South Africa. IBF World Flyweight Championship. Moruti Mthalane W RSC 5 Johnriel Casimero. Retains title.
2011: Johannesburg, South Africa. IBF World Super Bantamweight Championship. Takalani Ndlovu W 12 Steve Molitor. Retains titles.
2011: Ekateringburg, Russia. WBO World Middleweight Championship. Dmitry Pirog W 12 Javier Maciel. Retains title.
2014: Tokyo, Japan. WBA World Super Flyweight Championship. Kohei Kono KO 8 Denkaosan Kaovichit. Wins vacant title.
March 27
1907: Tuffy Griffiths born in Macy, Nebraska.
1914: Arthur ‘Ginger’ Sadd born in Norwich, England.
1925: St. Paul, MN. Harry Greb ND 10 Gene Tunney.
1934: Los Angeles, CA. World Light Welterweight Championship. Barney Ross W 10 Bobby Pacho. Retains title.
1942: New York City, NY. World Heavyweight Championship. Joe Louis KO 6 Abe Simon. Retains title.
1962: Former 3-time World Welterweight Champion Jack Britton dies in Miami, Florida.
1975: Fukuoka City, Japan. WBC World Junior Lightweight Championship. Kuniaki Shibata W 15 Ould Makloufi. Retains title.
1982: Atlantic City, New Jersey. WBC World Super Bantamweight Championship. Wilfredo Gomez KO 6 Juan ‘Kid’ Meza. Retains title.
1982: Philadelphia, PA. WBA World Bantamweight Championship. Jeff Chandler KO 6 Johnny Carter. Retains title.
1983: Joe Hanks born in Newark, New Jersey.
1983: Robert Guerrero born in Gilroy, California.
1983: Scanton, PA. WBC World Heavyweight Championship. Larry Holmes W 12 Lucien Rodriguez. Retains title.
1987: Cannes, France. IBF World Light Middleweight Championship. Buster Drayton KO 10 Said Skouma. Retains title.
1987: San Juan, Puerto Rico. WBA World Junior Lightweight Championship. Brian Mitchell D 15 Jose Rivera. Retains title.
1992: Mexico City, Mexico. WBA World Super Bantamweight Championship. Wilfredo Vasquez KO 3 Raul Perez. Wins title.
1993: Evian les Bains, France. IBF World Bantamweight Championship. Orlando Canizales KO 11 Clarence ‘Bones’ Adams. Retains title.
1998: Telford, England. WBC World Super Middleweight Championship. Richie Woodhall W 12 Thulane ‘Sugarboy’ Malinga. Wins title.
1999: Miami, Florida. Jorge Elicer Julio W 12 Julio Gamboa.
1999: Miami, Florida. IBF World Bantamweight Championship. Tim Austin KO 9 Sergio Aguila. Retains title.
2005: Sydney, Australia. IBF World Flyweight Championship. Vic Darchinyan KO 8 Mzukisi Sikali. Retains title.
2008: St Louis, Missouri. IBF World Light Middleweight Championship. Verno Phillips W 12 Cory Spinks. Wins title.
2010: Tokyo, Japan. WBC World Minimumweight Championship. Oleydong Sithsamerchai W 12 Yasutaka Kuroki. Retains title.
2010: Tokyo, Japan. WBC World Flyweight Championship. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam W 12 Koki Kameda. Wins title.
2010: Ontario, Canada. IBF World Super Bantamweight Championship. Steve Molitor W 12 Takalani Ndlovu. Wins title.
2012: Tokyo, Japan. WBC World Super Flyweight Championship. Yota Sato W 12 Suriyan Sor Rungvisai. Wins title.
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