JANUARY 20th

the13r · Post by **the13r** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:34 am

1930
Monday, January 20th
IN THE NEWS: Commissioner Landis bans boxing for all players in baseball following the brief boxing career of White Sox 1B Art Shires. His challenge to Hack Wilson purportedly prompts the ban. Shires fought several suspected bouts that resulted in his being suspended by the boxing commissions of 32 states but loses a desultory 5-rounder to Chicago Bears center George (The Brute) Trafton. Shires did win a punch out with Sox manager Lena Blackburne and two hotel detectives late last season.

RASTA666 · Post by **RASTA666** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:04 pm

Not huge names but:

HAYWARD WINS BATTLE OF LOCAL WELTERS - EDGES TURNER AT ARENA

Stanley 'Kitten' Hayward pulled out a close 10-round spilt decision against Dick Turner at the Philadelphia Arena on this day in 1964.

The bout, fittingly billed as "Philadelphia's Fistic Natural" by promoter Herman Taylor, had the makings of exactly that. It pitted two rising stars of the welterweight division with strikingly similar credentials. Hayward entered the ring with a record of 17-2-1 (8 KO), and was coming off his KO of Percy Manning. Turner, 19-1-1 (11 KO), was fighting for the first time since his only loss - a 10-round decision to Jose Stable at the Garden. Turner had a KO of his own over Percy Manning, while Hayward's record showed a 10-round blemish against Stable. Both fighters had scored decision wins over Gaylord Barnes, Hayward in six and Turner in eight. So only their bouts with Willie Davis produced different results. While Hayward was held to draw, Turner managed a sixth round TKO. Clearly this fight was a toss up going in.

The fight itself was a squeaker and the result was disputed by some. But Kitten came away with the biggest win of his career, up to that point. He would continue to have a great run, beating Curtis Cokes, Vince Shomo, Tito Marshall & Bennie Briscoe over the next two years, bringing him to the brink of a title shot.

After this fight, doctors discovered that Dick Turner had suffered a detached retina during the battle. To Turner's credit, he decided to step away from the game, showing grace and common sense - two qualities often lacking in boxing. But what a rematch it would have been!

Also,1964 - Bennie Briscoe W6 Johnny Clyde at The Philadelphia Arena (Hayward-Turner undercard)

KSTAT124 · Post by **KSTAT124** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:07 pm

Stanley "Kitten" Hayward- it's nice to see him remembered. He was a top ten welterweight and a top ten junior middleweight for about 5 years or so. Even after that he was still competitive at 160. Not only did he beat future world welterweight champion and future Hall of Famer Curtis Cokes, he split two fights with the great Emile Griffith.

While he never did get a shot at the welterweight championship, he did fight for the junior middleweight crown, dropping a decision to defending champion Freddie Little in 1969.

RASTA666 · Post by **RASTA666** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:13 pm

Good stuff KSTAT. I just cant believe how deep Philly was and is.

straycat · Post by **straycat** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:41 am

Floyd Mayweather KOs Diego Corrales

Floyd MayweatherOn this day in 2001, Floyd Mayweather, Jr, retained his WBC super featherweight title with a 10th-round TKO of Diego Corrales in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Both fighters were undefeated coming into the bout. Mayweather had won the belt in 1998 with a stoppage of Genaro Hernandez and had successfully defended the belt five times. Corrales had won the IBF super featherweight title in 1999 with a knockout of Roberto Garcia. He defended the belt three times and signed to fight Mayweather.

However, Corrales struggled greatly to make the 130-pound weight limit. Once in the ring, he found himself to be no match for Mayweather’s blazing speed. In the 7th round, Mayweather sent Corrales to the canvas for the first time in his career. He would go down four more times before his corner threw in the towel, despite his protests, in the 10th round.

Following the bout, Corrales was absent from the ring for two years, as he served a prison term for spousal abuse. He returned to the ring in 2003 and won the WBC and WBO lightweight titles with a now legendary 10th-round knockout of Jose Luis Castillo in 2005. Mayweather has since won titles at lightweight, light welterweight, and welterweight. He is scheduled to face Oscar De La Hoya in May of this year.

straycat · Post by **straycat** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:13 am

1916- Jack Britton ND 10 Ted "Kid" Lewis, Buffalo. Retains World Welterweight Title. (New York Times termed the fight a draw.)

1919- Benny Leonard ND 8 Johnny Dundee, Newark. Non-title, No Decision Lightweight bout. (Leonard won the newspaper decision- Bridgeport Standard Telegram, New York Times, etc)

1936- Marcel Thil W disq. 4 Lou Brouillard, Paris. Retains IBU and Ring Magazine World Middleweight Titles.

1973- Roberto Duran KO 5 Jimmy Robertson, Panama City. Retains Lineal, WBA, and Ring Magazine World Lightweight Titles.

1973- Romeo Anaya KO 3 Enrique Pinder, Panama City. Wins Lineal, WBA, and Ring Magazine World Bantamweight Titles.

1990- Sung Kil Moon Tech. Decision 9 Nana Konadu, Seoul. Wins Lineal World Junior Bantamweight and WBC World Super Flyweight Titles.

1993- Gianfranco Rosi W 12 Gilbert Dele, France. Retains IBF World Junior Middleweight title.

2001- Jose Luis Castillo KO 6 Cesar Bazan, Las Vegas. Retains WBC World Lightweight Title.

2001- Floyd Mayweather Jr. KO 10 Diego Corrales, Las Vegas. Retains Lineal World Junior Lightweight and WBC World Super Featherweight Titles.

2006- Valdemir Pereira W 12 Fahprakorb Rakkiatgym, Mashantucket, Connecticut. Wins vacant IBF World Featherweight Title.

2007- Nikolay Valuev KO 3 Jameel McCline, Basel, Switzerland. Retains WBA World Heavyweight Title.

2007- Marco Huck W 12 Ismail Abdoul, Basel, Switzerland. Retains EBU European Union Cruiserweight Title.

2007- Ricky "Hitman" Hatton W 12 Juan Urango, Las Vegas. Retains Lineal World Junior Welterweight Title/Wins IBF World Junior Welterweight Title/Wins vacant IBO World Junior Welterweight Title. Referee: Tony Weeks | judge: Robert Hoyle 119-109 | judge: Dave Moretti 119-109 | judge: Jerry Roth 119-109.

2007- Jose Luis Castillo W 12 Herman Ngoudjo, Las Vegas. Wins NABF Super LightweightTitle/Wins WBC Super Lightweight Title Eliminator by split decision.

2007- Matthew Hatton KO 7 Frank Houghtaling, Las Vegas. Wins vacant IBF International Welterweight Title.

2007- Junior Witter KO 9 Arturo Morua, London, England. Retains WBC World Super Lightweight Title.

2007- Troy Ross KO 3 Hastings Rasani, London, England, Cruisrweight Bout.

2007- Adam Richards KO 6 Willie Palms, Tunica, Mississippi. Heavyweight Bout.

2007- Rayonta Whitfield W 6 Alejandro Moreno, Tunica, Mississippi. Super Flyweight Bout.

2007- Mauro Adrian Ordiales KO 1 Orlando Antonio Farias, Monte Hermoso, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cruiserweight Bout. (Round of the Year candidate)

2007- Hector Javier Velazco KO 2 Martin David Islas, Monte Hermoso, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Super Middleweight Bout.

2007- Fernando David Saucedo KO 2 Hardy Paredes, Monte Hermoso, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Featherweight Bout.

2007- Nestor Rocha W 10 Kaona Chuwatana, Tokyo, Japan. Super Bantamweight Bout.

2007- Edrin Dapudong KO 4 Roldan Malinao, Midsayap, Cotabato del Norte, Philippines. Flyweight Bout.

2007- Rommel Asenjo KO 1 Ronnie Dumaran, Midsayap, Cotabato del Norte, Philippines. Mini-Flyweight Bout. (Asenjo's professional debut.)

2007- AJ Banal KO 9 Chatchai Monthon Gym, Barangay Centro, Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines. Bantamweight Bout.

2007- Milan Melindo W 10 Fabio Marfa, Barangay Centro, Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines. Light Flyweight Bout.

2007- Rocky Fuentes W 10 Greg Mangan, Barangay Centro, Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines. Super Flyweight Bout.

KSTAT124 · Post by **KSTAT124** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:04 am

FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY-

January 20, 1962-

Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany-

Future world heavyweight title challenger Karl Mildenberger outpointed 1956 Olympic heavyweight gold medalist and former world heavyweight title challenger Pete Rademacher over 10 rounds.

Mildenberger gave then defending world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali a much tougher than expected fight before being stopped in the 12th round of a scheduled 15-rounder held on September 10, 1966 in Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany. It was the first world heavyweight title bout ever held in Germany.

Rademacher, in his first professional bout, took on then defending world heavyweight champ Floyd Patterson on August 22, 1957 in Seattle, Washington. Rademacher floored Patterson early in the bout but was decked six times and counted out by referee Tommy Loughran at 2:57 of the sixth round. Patterson had defended the title against no. 1 contender Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson less than a month earlier, halting Jackson in the 10th round at New York's Polo Grounds on July 29 of '56.

Miami Beach, Florida, USA-

Future Hall of Famer (IBHOF, WBHF) Dick Tiger stopped highly ranked Florentino Fernandez in the 6th round of a scheduled 10-round middleweight bout. In his previous bout, on August 5, 1961, Fernandez had lost a 15-round, split decision to defending NBA world middleweight champion Gene Fullmer.

Tiger would go on to win the WBA world middleweight title from Fullmer on October 23, 1962. (The NBA had become the WBA earlier in 1962.) Tiger gained lineal recognition in 1963 after previous lineal champ Paul Pender retired. (Note: The Ring had recognized Pender and Tiger as co-champions in 1962.)

On August 10, 1963, Tiger gained the newly formed WBC's vacant middleweight title by again beating Fullmer while defending the lineal, WBA, and The Ring's titles. He lost all of those titles to Joey Giardello on December 7, 1963 but regained them by besting Giardello on October 21, 1965.

He lost the world middleweight title(s) to Emile Griffith on April 25, 1966 but, before the year was over, again bounced back by taking the world light heavyweight title (again, titles- lineal, WBA, WBC, and The Ring) from Jose Torres On December 16.

Tiger held the world light heavyweight titles until May 24, 1968 when he was dethroned by Bob Foster.

Jiquilpan, Michoacan de Ocampo, Mexico-

16-year old bantamweight Rodolfo "Gato" Gonzalez improved to 44-0 by knocking out Jose Perez in the first round.

Gonzalez would go on to hold the WBC lightweight title from November 10, 1972 until April 11, 1974. He was elected to the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003 by a controversial 8-2 vote by the WBHF's Executive Committee after falling short by one vote when the Hall of Fame voting was done by the WBHF's 140 voting members that year.

straycat · Post by **straycat** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:36 am

DBO · Post by **DBO** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:29 pm

2001- Floyd Mayweather Jr. KO 10 Diego Corrales, Las Vegas. Retains Lineal World Junior Lightweight and WBC World Super Featherweight Titles.

I picked Corrales to win the one. The ease in which PBF decimated Chico astounded me.

DBO · Post by **DBO** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:31 pm

2007- Jose Luis Castillo W 12 Herman Ngoudjo, Las Vegas. Wins NABF Super LightweightTitle/Wins WBC Super Lightweight Title Eliminator by split decision.

One of several times Ngoudjo got the short end in a close fight.

straycat · Post by **straycat** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 12:19 pm

2012
Guillermo Rigondeaux KO 6 Rico Ramos, Las Vegas. Wins WBA Super Bantamweight Title.

KSTAT124 · Post by **KSTAT124** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:32 am

SIXTY YEARS AGO TODAY:

January 20, 1956-

Syracuse, New York-

Former world welterweight title challenger Gil Turner, fighting as a middleweight, won a 10-round, split decision over Jackie LaBua. LaBua, who had lost a 10-rounder by majority decision to Turner on December 14, 1955, was a late substitute for future Hall of Famer (IBHOF, WBHF) Gene Fullmer.

Turner and Fullmer, having fought each other twice previously with each winning once, would fight the next month. On February 17, 1956, at New York's Madison Square Garden, Fullmer won the intensely-contested third match of their trilogy by a razor-thin split decision.

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