Mike Tyson vs. Larry Holmes, WBA, WBC, IBF Heavyweight Title
Tyson w. TKO in the 4th round
JANUARY 22nd
JANUARY 22nd
January 22, 1988
Mike Tyson vs. Larry Holmes, WBA, WBC, IBF Heavyweight Title
Tyson w. TKO in the 4th round
Mike Tyson vs. Larry Holmes, WBA, WBC, IBF Heavyweight Title
Tyson w. TKO in the 4th round
On this day in 1973, Heavyweight Champ Joe Frazier took on fellow Olympic Gold Medalist George Forman in what was expected to be a time killer before a second epic event with Muhammad Ali. The result however was a shocking and emphatic changing of the guard, as Big George scored six knockdowns in his two round snuffing of Smokin' Joe to claim the championship. It was Frazier's first-ever loss.
Foreman would reign for two years before falling to Ali. Joe would go on to two more classic bouts with Ali as well as a rematch with Foreman.
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1960 - Paul Pender beat Sugar Ray Robinson in a 15-round decision and gained international recognition as the world middleweight boxing champion.
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1977- Pascual Perez (born Pascual Nicolás Pérez March 4, 1926 – January 22, 1977)
Argentine flyweight boxer. Pérez was born in Tupungato in the Mendoza Province of Argentina, he went on to make history by becoming Argentina's first world boxing champion.
Pérez usually did poor at the ticket gates in Argentina after he became world champion, forcing him to defend his world title on the road many times and to become known as a world-travelling champion. His first international success was a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in United Kingdom.
In December 5, 1952, Pérez beat José Ciorino by knockout in round four at the small Argentine city of Gerly, to begin his professional boxing career. After winning his first six fights by knockout, he challenged Marcelo Quiroga, November 11 of 1953, for the Argentine Flyweight title, winning the fight by a fourth round knockout at Buenos Aires.
Pérez's knockout streak reached 18 knockouts in a row, and it lasted until he met Juan Bishop, on April 22, 1954, winning by a ten round decision.
On July 24 of that year, and with a record of 23 wins, no losses, with 22 wins by knockout, Pérez met Yoshio Shirai, who, coincidentally, had been Japan's first world champion in history, in a non-title fight held at Buenos Aires. The fight was declared a draw (tie) by the judges after ten rounds, and a rematch was set, this time with the world Flyweight title at stake.
On November 26 of '54, Pérez fought what was both his first fight abroad outside the Olympics, and his first world title fight. He made history by beating Shirai by a fifteen round decision, becoming Argentina's first world champion boxer, in Tokyo.
Over the course of Pérez's next thirty fights, he would defend his title only nine times, lose for the first time, and fight in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Curaçao, Japan, Paraguay, the Philippines, Thailand, Uruguay and Venezuela. Many of his fights would have been title fights, but some of his opponents were not able to make the Flyweight division's 112 pound weight limit, so Pérez often had to settle for non-title wins instead. He lost his undefeated record to Japan's Sadao Yaoita on January 16 of 1959, by a ten round decision in Tokyo. Among the fighters he defeated to retain his world title were Dai Dower (by a first round knockout), Dommy Ursua (by a fifteen round decision) and Yaoita in a rematch, by a thirteenth round knockout.
Pérez would lose his title to another first time world champion, Thailand's Pone Kingpetch, who made history for his country by beating Pérez by a fifteen round decision at Bangkok on April 16, 1960. A rematch between Pérez and Kingpetch was fought on September 22 of the same year, at Los Angeles, but Pérez's first fight in the United States was also his first knockout defeat, as he was beaten in eight rounds by Kingpetch.
Pérez's next twenty eight opponents had a combined record of 0-61-1, and Pérez beat each of them. Faced with perennial world title contender Bernardo Caraballo in Colombia, however, Pérez lost by a ten round decision on July 23, 1963.
He finished his career with fights in Ecuador, Mexico and Panama, losing a third round knockout to future world Bantamweight champion Efren Torres on his fight in Mexican soil.
Pérez had a record of 84 wins, 7 losses and 1 draw, with 58 knockouts, number which places him in the exclusive group of boxers to have won 50 or more fights by knockout.
He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. On his death in 1977, Pascual Pérez was interred in the La Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1992-Hall of Famer Billy Graham, 69, dies. http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer
1960- Paul Pender W 15 Sugar Ray Robinson, Boston. Wins Lineal and Ring Magazine World Middleweight Titles.
1973- George Foreman KO 2 Joe Frazier, Kingston, Jamaica. Wins World Heavyweight Title. Foreman, 4-1 underdog, drops Frazier 6 times and ups his record to 38-0 (36).
1977- Carlos Palomino KO 15 Armando Muniz, Los Angeles. Retains Lineal, WBC, and Ring Magazine World Welterweight Titles. The fight was even after 14 rounds. Palomino drops Muniz in the 15th and continues his onslaught until referee John Thomas stops the fight with 34 seconds remaining.
1980- Eusebio Pedroza W 15 Spider Nemoto, Tokyo. Retains WBA World Featherweight Title. 6th defense of a record 19 successful title defenses.
1984- Johnny "Bump City" Bumphus W 15 Lorenzo Garcia, Atlantic City. Wins vacant WBA World Super Liightweight title.
1988- Mike Tyson KO 4 Larry Holmes, Atlantic City. Retains Lineal. WBC, WBA, IBF, and Ring Magazine World Heavyweight Titles.
1988- Carlos DeLeon W 12 Jose Maria Burlon, Atlantic City. Retains WBC World Cruiserweight Title.
1990- Raul Perez W 12 Gaby Canizales, Los Angeles. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title.
2000- Sugar Shane Mosley KO 3 Willie Wise, Las Vegas. Mosley’s second fight as a welterweight.
2002- Its party-time in NYC, as a melee breaks out at the press conference announcing a bout between heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and former champ Mike Tyson. After all is said and done, Tyson suffers a scalp cut. Lewis is bitten on the thigh, and Jose Suliaman is KO’d. See January, 29 2002.
2005- Floyd Mayweather KO 8 Henry Bruseles, Miami, FL. Wins WBC World Super Lightweight Title Eliminator.
2005- Samuel Peter KO 5 Yanqui Diaz, Miami, FL. Wins Vacant USBA Heavyweight Title.
2005- Johnny Tapia W 10 Nicky Bentz, Hidalgo, TX. Featherweight Bout. Judge: Glenn Rick Crocker 98-92 | Judge: Raul Ortega 96-93 | Judge: Freddy Ledesma 92-97. Tapia, clearly, not what he once was.
2005- Oleg Maskaev KO 3 Quinn Navarre, Kinder, LA. Heavyweight Bout.
2005- Sumya Anani W 10 Belinda Laracuente, Kinder, LA. Retains IBA Female Welterweight Title.
Born On This day
1964- Nigel Benn (born in Ilford, England)
British former boxer who held world titles at both middleweight and super middleweight and was known as "The Dark Destroyer." He was in the British Army, where he served in The Troubles for 18 months. He attended Loxford School of Science and Technology, Ilford, Greater London. Now he lives in Mallorca, Spain with his family.
Benn comes from a sporting family that includes a famous cousin in the football world, Paul Ince. Benn had a record of 41 wins and 1 loss as an amateur boxer. He turned professional in 1987 with a win over Graeme Ahmed in Croydon. This win began a streak of 22 consecutive knockout wins for Benn. The streak extended until 1989. During this time Benn's accomplishments included beating Fermin Chirino and Anthony Logan, winning the British commonwealth middleweight title with a win over Abdul Umaru, and retaining it against David Noel, brother of former world lightweight champion Claude Noel.
Amateur Accomplishments
* Amateur boxing: 41 wins 1 loss
* Undefeated Welterweight for the First Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers between 1982 and 1984 - won titles all the way up to heavyweight and trained others in his regiment's boxing team
* 1986 ABA Middleweight Champion, avenging a previous loss to Rod Douglas.
In 1989 Benn fought Michael Watson and lost by a sixth-round knockout. His next fight, against Jorge Amparo in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was his first fight abroad and also the first to last the full distance, Benn eventually winning a 10 round decision.
After two more wins against Sanderline Williams and Jose Quinones, Benn fought WBO middleweight champion Doug DeWitt of the USA in Atlantic City. Benn won the title by knocking out the extremely durable DeWitt in round eight.
His first defence came against former champion Iran Barkley on August 18, 1990, whom he floored 3 times and knocked out in the first round. Benn returned to Europe and met British rival Chris Eubank. They fought in Birmingham on November 18, 1990. Benn lost his title to Eubank when the referee stopped the fight in the ninth round.
Benn then went on a winning streak of 6 fights leading up to his next World Title challenge. In 1991, he beat Marvin Hagler's half brother, Robbie Sims, by a knockout in round seven, followed by wins over future world champion Thulani Malinga and contender Dan Sherry.
On October 10, 1992, Benn fought Mauro Galvano for Galvano's World Boxing Council super middleweight title. He won the bout and the title by forth-round TKO. He defended it three times, against fellow Britons Nicky Piper and Lou Gent, and a rematch victory over Mauro Galvano before meeting rival Chris Eubank (who was now the WBO World Super Middleweight Champion) again on October 9, 1993. This time they fought to a draw, both fighters retaining their respective titles.
Benn defended his title twice more against iron chinned fellow Briton Henry Wharton and Juan Carlos Giminez Ferreyra before defending it against middleweight champion Gerald McClellan in February 1995. Most American experts gave Benn little chance. In an exciting fight Benn was knocked through the ropes in the first round and was knocked down again in the eighth round, however Benn dominated most of the bout and came back to stop McClellan in the tenth.
Unfortunately, however, McClellan was severely injured as a result of the fight. After collapsing in his corner after the fight had finished, McClellan was rushed to hospital where it was discovered he had developed a blood clot on the brain. To this day McClellan is almost completely blind, partially deaf, and uses a wheelchair, although he has regained some movement and can walk with a cane. In 2007, McClellan, his wife and children attended a benefit dinner organized and hosted by Benn to help McClellan with his ongoing medical expenses.
Two more defences followed against future World Champion Vincenzo Nardiello and American Danny Perez before Benn lost his title with an uncharacteristically lacklustre performance to Thulani Malinga in 1996. A by now clearly faded Benn twice attempted to take the WBO super middleweight title from Steve Collins but failed in both attempts: losing by TKO in four in the first fight, his usual mobility hampered by an ankle injury. He retired following the second loss to Collins in 1996, retiring on his stool at the end of the sixth-round.
Nigel Benn retired from the sport of boxing and became a DJ, He later appeared in the first series of the ITV reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.
Benn has since developed a strong faith and now lives with his family on the Spanish island of Mallorca, where he is a born again Christian. He also became an ordained minister.
Benn's autobiography, published in 2001, is called Dark Destroyer.
Benn is also featured in the forthcoming documentary film "Fallen Soldier," directed by Bobby Razak, which examines his bout with McClellan.
Nigel is also a Patron of The Shannon Bradshaw Trust, A UK Children's Charity based in The North-West, Helping Children with Life Threatening Conditions and their Families. www.shannonstrust.org.uk
Nigel Benn has a record of 42 wins, 5 losses and 1 draw, with 35 wins by way of a knockout as a professional boxer.
1977- Pascual Perez (born Pascual Nicolás Pérez March 4, 1926 – January 22, 1977)
Argentine flyweight boxer. Pérez was born in Tupungato in the Mendoza Province of Argentina, he went on to make history by becoming Argentina's first world boxing champion.
Pérez usually did poor at the ticket gates in Argentina after he became world champion, forcing him to defend his world title on the road many times and to become known as a world-travelling champion. His first international success was a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in United Kingdom.
In December 5, 1952, Pérez beat José Ciorino by knockout in round four at the small Argentine city of Gerly, to begin his professional boxing career. After winning his first six fights by knockout, he challenged Marcelo Quiroga, November 11 of 1953, for the Argentine Flyweight title, winning the fight by a fourth round knockout at Buenos Aires.
Pérez's knockout streak reached 18 knockouts in a row, and it lasted until he met Juan Bishop, on April 22, 1954, winning by a ten round decision.
On July 24 of that year, and with a record of 23 wins, no losses, with 22 wins by knockout, Pérez met Yoshio Shirai, who, coincidentally, had been Japan's first world champion in history, in a non-title fight held at Buenos Aires. The fight was declared a draw (tie) by the judges after ten rounds, and a rematch was set, this time with the world Flyweight title at stake.
On November 26 of '54, Pérez fought what was both his first fight abroad outside the Olympics, and his first world title fight. He made history by beating Shirai by a fifteen round decision, becoming Argentina's first world champion boxer, in Tokyo.
Over the course of Pérez's next thirty fights, he would defend his title only nine times, lose for the first time, and fight in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Curaçao, Japan, Paraguay, the Philippines, Thailand, Uruguay and Venezuela. Many of his fights would have been title fights, but some of his opponents were not able to make the Flyweight division's 112 pound weight limit, so Pérez often had to settle for non-title wins instead. He lost his undefeated record to Japan's Sadao Yaoita on January 16 of 1959, by a ten round decision in Tokyo. Among the fighters he defeated to retain his world title were Dai Dower (by a first round knockout), Dommy Ursua (by a fifteen round decision) and Yaoita in a rematch, by a thirteenth round knockout.
Pérez would lose his title to another first time world champion, Thailand's Pone Kingpetch, who made history for his country by beating Pérez by a fifteen round decision at Bangkok on April 16, 1960. A rematch between Pérez and Kingpetch was fought on September 22 of the same year, at Los Angeles, but Pérez's first fight in the United States was also his first knockout defeat, as he was beaten in eight rounds by Kingpetch.
Pérez's next twenty eight opponents had a combined record of 0-61-1, and Pérez beat each of them. Faced with perennial world title contender Bernardo Caraballo in Colombia, however, Pérez lost by a ten round decision on July 23, 1963.
He finished his career with fights in Ecuador, Mexico and Panama, losing a third round knockout to future world Bantamweight champion Efren Torres on his fight in Mexican soil.
Pérez had a record of 84 wins, 7 losses and 1 draw, with 58 knockouts, number which places him in the exclusive group of boxers to have won 50 or more fights by knockout.
He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. On his death in 1977, Pascual Pérez was interred in the La Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1992-Hall of Famer Billy Graham, 69, dies. http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer
1960- Paul Pender W 15 Sugar Ray Robinson, Boston. Wins Lineal and Ring Magazine World Middleweight Titles.
1973- George Foreman KO 2 Joe Frazier, Kingston, Jamaica. Wins World Heavyweight Title. Foreman, 4-1 underdog, drops Frazier 6 times and ups his record to 38-0 (36).
1977- Carlos Palomino KO 15 Armando Muniz, Los Angeles. Retains Lineal, WBC, and Ring Magazine World Welterweight Titles. The fight was even after 14 rounds. Palomino drops Muniz in the 15th and continues his onslaught until referee John Thomas stops the fight with 34 seconds remaining.
1980- Eusebio Pedroza W 15 Spider Nemoto, Tokyo. Retains WBA World Featherweight Title. 6th defense of a record 19 successful title defenses.
1984- Johnny "Bump City" Bumphus W 15 Lorenzo Garcia, Atlantic City. Wins vacant WBA World Super Liightweight title.
1988- Mike Tyson KO 4 Larry Holmes, Atlantic City. Retains Lineal. WBC, WBA, IBF, and Ring Magazine World Heavyweight Titles.
1988- Carlos DeLeon W 12 Jose Maria Burlon, Atlantic City. Retains WBC World Cruiserweight Title.
1990- Raul Perez W 12 Gaby Canizales, Los Angeles. Retains WBC Bantamweight Title.
2000- Sugar Shane Mosley KO 3 Willie Wise, Las Vegas. Mosley’s second fight as a welterweight.
2002- Its party-time in NYC, as a melee breaks out at the press conference announcing a bout between heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and former champ Mike Tyson. After all is said and done, Tyson suffers a scalp cut. Lewis is bitten on the thigh, and Jose Suliaman is KO’d. See January, 29 2002.
2005- Floyd Mayweather KO 8 Henry Bruseles, Miami, FL. Wins WBC World Super Lightweight Title Eliminator.
2005- Samuel Peter KO 5 Yanqui Diaz, Miami, FL. Wins Vacant USBA Heavyweight Title.
2005- Johnny Tapia W 10 Nicky Bentz, Hidalgo, TX. Featherweight Bout. Judge: Glenn Rick Crocker 98-92 | Judge: Raul Ortega 96-93 | Judge: Freddy Ledesma 92-97. Tapia, clearly, not what he once was.
2005- Oleg Maskaev KO 3 Quinn Navarre, Kinder, LA. Heavyweight Bout.
2005- Sumya Anani W 10 Belinda Laracuente, Kinder, LA. Retains IBA Female Welterweight Title.
Born On This day
1964- Nigel Benn (born in Ilford, England)
British former boxer who held world titles at both middleweight and super middleweight and was known as "The Dark Destroyer." He was in the British Army, where he served in The Troubles for 18 months. He attended Loxford School of Science and Technology, Ilford, Greater London. Now he lives in Mallorca, Spain with his family.
Benn comes from a sporting family that includes a famous cousin in the football world, Paul Ince. Benn had a record of 41 wins and 1 loss as an amateur boxer. He turned professional in 1987 with a win over Graeme Ahmed in Croydon. This win began a streak of 22 consecutive knockout wins for Benn. The streak extended until 1989. During this time Benn's accomplishments included beating Fermin Chirino and Anthony Logan, winning the British commonwealth middleweight title with a win over Abdul Umaru, and retaining it against David Noel, brother of former world lightweight champion Claude Noel.
Amateur Accomplishments
* Amateur boxing: 41 wins 1 loss
* Undefeated Welterweight for the First Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers between 1982 and 1984 - won titles all the way up to heavyweight and trained others in his regiment's boxing team
* 1986 ABA Middleweight Champion, avenging a previous loss to Rod Douglas.
In 1989 Benn fought Michael Watson and lost by a sixth-round knockout. His next fight, against Jorge Amparo in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was his first fight abroad and also the first to last the full distance, Benn eventually winning a 10 round decision.
After two more wins against Sanderline Williams and Jose Quinones, Benn fought WBO middleweight champion Doug DeWitt of the USA in Atlantic City. Benn won the title by knocking out the extremely durable DeWitt in round eight.
His first defence came against former champion Iran Barkley on August 18, 1990, whom he floored 3 times and knocked out in the first round. Benn returned to Europe and met British rival Chris Eubank. They fought in Birmingham on November 18, 1990. Benn lost his title to Eubank when the referee stopped the fight in the ninth round.
Benn then went on a winning streak of 6 fights leading up to his next World Title challenge. In 1991, he beat Marvin Hagler's half brother, Robbie Sims, by a knockout in round seven, followed by wins over future world champion Thulani Malinga and contender Dan Sherry.
On October 10, 1992, Benn fought Mauro Galvano for Galvano's World Boxing Council super middleweight title. He won the bout and the title by forth-round TKO. He defended it three times, against fellow Britons Nicky Piper and Lou Gent, and a rematch victory over Mauro Galvano before meeting rival Chris Eubank (who was now the WBO World Super Middleweight Champion) again on October 9, 1993. This time they fought to a draw, both fighters retaining their respective titles.
Benn defended his title twice more against iron chinned fellow Briton Henry Wharton and Juan Carlos Giminez Ferreyra before defending it against middleweight champion Gerald McClellan in February 1995. Most American experts gave Benn little chance. In an exciting fight Benn was knocked through the ropes in the first round and was knocked down again in the eighth round, however Benn dominated most of the bout and came back to stop McClellan in the tenth.
Unfortunately, however, McClellan was severely injured as a result of the fight. After collapsing in his corner after the fight had finished, McClellan was rushed to hospital where it was discovered he had developed a blood clot on the brain. To this day McClellan is almost completely blind, partially deaf, and uses a wheelchair, although he has regained some movement and can walk with a cane. In 2007, McClellan, his wife and children attended a benefit dinner organized and hosted by Benn to help McClellan with his ongoing medical expenses.
Two more defences followed against future World Champion Vincenzo Nardiello and American Danny Perez before Benn lost his title with an uncharacteristically lacklustre performance to Thulani Malinga in 1996. A by now clearly faded Benn twice attempted to take the WBO super middleweight title from Steve Collins but failed in both attempts: losing by TKO in four in the first fight, his usual mobility hampered by an ankle injury. He retired following the second loss to Collins in 1996, retiring on his stool at the end of the sixth-round.
Nigel Benn retired from the sport of boxing and became a DJ, He later appeared in the first series of the ITV reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.
Benn has since developed a strong faith and now lives with his family on the Spanish island of Mallorca, where he is a born again Christian. He also became an ordained minister.
Benn's autobiography, published in 2001, is called Dark Destroyer.
Benn is also featured in the forthcoming documentary film "Fallen Soldier," directed by Bobby Razak, which examines his bout with McClellan.
Nigel is also a Patron of The Shannon Bradshaw Trust, A UK Children's Charity based in The North-West, Helping Children with Life Threatening Conditions and their Families. www.shannonstrust.org.uk
Nigel Benn has a record of 42 wins, 5 losses and 1 draw, with 35 wins by way of a knockout as a professional boxer.
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TWO YEARS AGO TODAY:
January 22, 2010-
Boston, Massachusetts-
Hank Lundy won a 10-round, split decision over Richard Abril.
Update: Lundy is currently the NABF lightweight champion. He won the vacant title by outpointing Patrick Lopez over 10 rounds on April 1, 2011 and successfully defended it by knocking out former WBC world lightweight champion David Diaz in the 6th round on August 19 2011.
Abril, who has won a number of steppingstone titles since his bout with Lundy, won the WBA interim lightweight title in his most recent bout by unanimously outpointing former WBA world lightweight champion Miguel Acosta over 12 rounds on October 22, 2011.
January 22, 2010-
Boston, Massachusetts-
Hank Lundy won a 10-round, split decision over Richard Abril.
Update: Lundy is currently the NABF lightweight champion. He won the vacant title by outpointing Patrick Lopez over 10 rounds on April 1, 2011 and successfully defended it by knocking out former WBC world lightweight champion David Diaz in the 6th round on August 19 2011.
Abril, who has won a number of steppingstone titles since his bout with Lundy, won the WBA interim lightweight title in his most recent bout by unanimously outpointing former WBA world lightweight champion Miguel Acosta over 12 rounds on October 22, 2011.
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A YEAR AGO TODAY:
January 22, 2011-
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia-
Former world cruiserweight champion and former four-time world heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield retained the World Boxing Federation heavyweight title as a result of a 3rd round No Contest against Sherman Williams.
On the undercard, future WBA heavyweight title challenger Cedric Boswell, former WBC heavyweight title challenger Kevin Johnson, and former WBA heavyweight title challenger Monte Barrett were in action.
Boswell stopped Dominique Alexander in the 2nd round of a scheduled 10-rounder, Johnson outpointed Julius Long over 8 rounds, and Barrett fought to an 8-round draw with Charles Davis.
January 22, 2011-
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia-
Former world cruiserweight champion and former four-time world heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield retained the World Boxing Federation heavyweight title as a result of a 3rd round No Contest against Sherman Williams.
On the undercard, future WBA heavyweight title challenger Cedric Boswell, former WBC heavyweight title challenger Kevin Johnson, and former WBA heavyweight title challenger Monte Barrett were in action.
Boswell stopped Dominique Alexander in the 2nd round of a scheduled 10-rounder, Johnson outpointed Julius Long over 8 rounds, and Barrett fought to an 8-round draw with Charles Davis.
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Re: JANUARY 22nd
A clip from the Lewis and Tyson Melee
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Re: JANUARY 22nd
SIXTY YEARS AGO:
January 22, 1956-
Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany-
German heavyweight contender Heinz Neuhaus improved to 35-4-6 by outpointing long-time American contender Rex Layne (50-16-3) over 10 rounds. The two had fought previously, battling to a 10-round draw on December 12,1954.
In the semi-final to Neuhaus-Layne II, Willi Besmanoff (26-6-7), transitioning from light heavyweight to heavyweight, won an eight-round decision over veteran British light heavyweight Alex Buxton (73-24-1). Another veteran British light heavyweight, Albert Finch (67-16-7) appeared on the card and held German prospect Uwe Janssen (10-1-1) to an eight round draw.
January 22, 1956-
Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany-
German heavyweight contender Heinz Neuhaus improved to 35-4-6 by outpointing long-time American contender Rex Layne (50-16-3) over 10 rounds. The two had fought previously, battling to a 10-round draw on December 12,1954.
In the semi-final to Neuhaus-Layne II, Willi Besmanoff (26-6-7), transitioning from light heavyweight to heavyweight, won an eight-round decision over veteran British light heavyweight Alex Buxton (73-24-1). Another veteran British light heavyweight, Albert Finch (67-16-7) appeared on the card and held German prospect Uwe Janssen (10-1-1) to an eight round draw.