July 25th

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From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:


BROOKLYN — Pro boxer Pete Herman regained his bantamweight world title with a 15-round decision over Joe Lynch at Ebbets Field on July 25, 1921. The gate grossed $103,315 from a crowd of 30,000. The success of this fight, the first in a ballpark owned and actively used by a major league team, paved the way for a half-century of premier boxing bouts in big league ballparks.

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1902- James J. Jefferies KO 8 Bob Fitzsimmons, San Francisco. Retains world heavyweight title.

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1921- Pete Herman W 15 Joe Lynch, Brooklyn. Wins world bantamweight title.

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1929- Jackie Fields WF 2 Joe Dundee, Detroit. Retains world welterweight title.

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1953- Carmen Basilio D 12 Billy Graham, Syracuse. Retains NY State welterweight title.

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1981- Jeff Chandler KO 7 Julian Solis, Atlantic City. Retains WBA bantamweight title.

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1987- Miguel Lora KO 4 Antonio Avelar, Key Biscayne, FL. Retains WBC bantamweight title.

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2009- Paulus Moses W 12 Takehiro Shimada, Windhoek, Namibia. Retains WBA Lightweight Title.

2009- Giovanni Segura KO 8 Juanito Rubillar, Nuero Vallarta, Mexico. Retains WBA Light Flyweight Title.[/size]

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1992- Tyrone Booze retained the WBO junior heavyweight (cruiserweight) title by knocking out Derek Angol at 2:32 of the 7th round; Manchester, Lancashire, England.

1992- On the same card as Booze-Angol, Manning Galloway retained the WBO welterweight title with a 12-round, unanimous decision over Pat Barrett.

1994- Verno Phillips retained the WBO junior middleweight title with a 7th round TKO over Jaime Llanes; Inglewood, California.

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Born On This Day

1967- Glenwood Brown (born Plainfield, NJ, United States)
Brown is a professional boxer in the welterweight (147lb) division.
Brown trained at the Plainfield Boys Club in Plainfield, New Jersey and won the 1986 New York Golden Gloves 139lb Open Championship. Brown defeated Raul Rivera of the Apollo Boys Club in the finals to win the Championship.
Nicknamed "The Real Beast", Brown turned pro in 1986 and lost his first title shot in 1991 by split decision to Maurice Blocker for the vacant IBF welterweight title. In his next fight in 1992 he took on WBA welterweight title holder Meldrick Taylor but lost a decision, even though Taylor was knocked down twice. Brown went on to win the IBO Middleweight Championship in 1995, but never fought again for a major title,

1967- Ricardo “El Finito” Lopez (born Ricardo López Nava in Cuernavaca, Mexico}
As a professional, Lopez defended the WBC Strawweight Championship a record 21 times. He also won the WBA and WBO championship of the same weight class. Lopez also won the IBF Light Flyweight Championship and defended it twice before retiring.
On October 10, 1990, López defeated WBC minimumweight champion Hideyuki Ohashi of Japan via a fourth knockout to win his first world title. In 1991, he defeated Korean former champion Kyung-Yun Lee (20-1-0). In 1992, he defended his title against Pretty Boy Lucas (22-2-2) of the Philippines and Rocky Lin (14-0) of Taiwan. In 1993, López defeated future two time champion Saman Sorjaturong of Thailand. Sorjaturong was knocked down once in the 1st round and twice in the 2nd round when the referee stopped the bout.
Later that year, he knocked out Filipino former champion Manny Melchor in the 11th round. In his tenth title defense, López defeated future champion Kermin Guardia (21-0-0) by unanimous decision. He knocked out Surachai Saengmorakot (10-0) in the first round of his next bout. In 1995, he defeated Andy Tabanas (30-2-0) of the Philippines via 12th round knock out. In his next bout, he defeated another Filipino boxer and founder of the famous "Ala Gym" Ala Villamor (29-1-1) by knockout. In 1997, López defended his title against Mongkol Charoen (20-1-0).
In his 20th world title bout, López unified his WBC title by defeating WBO minimumweight champion Alex Sánchez (25-1-0) of Puerto Rico via 5th round knock out. On March 7, 1998, López fought undefeated WBA minimumweight champion Rosendo Álvarez to a technical draw after referee Arthur Mercante Sr. stopped the contest following an accidental head butt in the seventh round. López defeated Alvarez in a rematch by split decision to claim his third minimumweight title. After the fight, he vacated his titles in order to move up in weight.
In his first bout at light flyweight, López defeated IBF champion Will Grigsby of the United States. He defended his title against former champion Ratanapol Sor Vorapin. On September 29, 2001, López knocked out Zolani Petelo who had recently vacated his IBF minimumweight title, the only minimumweight title that López had not claimed before moving up to light flyweight. He officially announced his retirement from boxing at a press conference on 28 November 2002, in Mexico City.
Ricardo López was the third champion in history to retire undefeated. He also shares with Joe Louis the record for consecutive title bouts without a loss (twenty-six). This streak began with his knockout of Hideyuki Ohashi to win the WBC minimumweight title in 1990 and ending with his knockout of Zolani Potelo to defend his IBF light flyweight title in 2001. Ricardo only had one draw, which came against Rosendo Alvarez in 1998 in Lopez's 48th bout. His final record was 51 wins (KO 38 ), 0 losses, and 1 draw.
López now works as a boxing broadcaster for the Mexican Televisa network.
López was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 2007.

1976- Toshiaki Nishioka (born Kakogawa, Hyōgo, Japan)
Nishioka is a professional boxer from Japan. He was born in Kakogawa, Hyogo, Japan.
Nishioka won his debut fight by first round KO in 1994. He has been called by a nickname Speed King after this in Japan. He won the Japanese bantamweight title in 1998, and defended the title two times before returning it.
He captured the WBC super bantamweight interim title against Thai Napapol Kiatisakchokchai on September 15, 2008 at Pacifico Yokohama, Japan. Nishioka defended that title on January 3, 2008 by knocking out Genaro Garcia in the final round, again at Pacifico Yokohama.
Nishioka inherited the fullversion of the WBC super bantamweight title on January 3, 2009, when its previous holder, Israel Vázquez, was stripped for medical reasons.
On May 23, 2009, Nishioka successfully defended his title against Jhonny González at Monterrey Arena, Mexico. Nishioka recovered from a knockdown on the first round and went to KO González in the third round. Nishioka's left cross has often been called Monster Left from these days. He succeeded in the third defense in the third round TKO against Ivan Hernandez on October 10 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium.
The fourth title defense took place on April 30, 2010 at Nippon Budokan, Nishioka defeated Balweg Bangoyan of the Philippines via technical knockout in the fifth round.