February 4th

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Oscar De La Hoya born in California

Oscar De la Hoya On this day in 1973, Oscar De La Hoya was born in Montebello, California. The “Golden Boy? is a six-time world champion and the most financially successful boxer in history.

De La Hoya turned professional shortly after winning a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In March of 1994, he won his first title, the WBO Super Featherweight belt, with a 10th-round stoppage of Jimmi Bredahl. Four months later, De La Hoya picked up the WBO Lightweight title with a second-round knockout of Jorge Paez.

He defended the belt six times before moving up to light welterweight to challenge reigning WBC champ and legend Julio Cesar Chavez in 1996. De La Hoya dominated the bout until it was stopped in the fourth round. He defended the welterweight belt once before moving up in weight to win the WBC Welterweight title with a decision over Pernell Whitaker in April of 1997.

De La Hoya successfully defended his welterweight title seven times before signing to fight IBF champion Felix Trinidad in September of 1999. It was one of the richest non-heavyweight title bouts at that tme, as both fighters were undefeated and in the prime of their careers. De La Hoya was dominant early on and seemed to be on his way to a decision win. However, he chose to play it safe and avoid Trinidad in the later rounds, and it was a strategy that cost him dearly. Trinidad was awarded a majority decision.

Two fights later, De La Hoya lost again, this time to Sugar Shane Mosley via split decision in June of 2000. He then moved up to light middleweight and won the WBC portion of that title with a decision over Javier Castillejo in June of 2001. Fifteen months later, he picked up the WBA belt with an 11th-round knockout of Fernando Vargas. De La Hoya defended the belt once more before challenging Mosley to a rematch, and losing another decision. The loss was controversial because of the fact that De La Hoya landed over 100 more punches than Mosley throughout the fight.

De La Hoya bounced back in June of 2004 by winning the WBO Middleweight title with a decision over Felix Sturm. A mega-fight with undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins followed three months later. The bout was close until Hopkins handed De La Hoya his first knockout loss with a show-stopping left hook to the body.

De La Hoya took more than a year and a half off from boxing following the loss. He returned to the ring in May of 2006 and won the WBC Light Middleweight title with a sixth-round stoppage of Ricardo Mayorga. Oscar lost a close SD to Floyd Mayweather, Jr., on May 5th 2007. This fight eclipsed the sales of his fight with Felix Trinidad. Sadly Oscar ended his career in undesirable fashion on June 12th 2008 when he returned to 147 to take on Manny Pacquiao, Oscar did not come out for the 8th round of this fight.

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1909- Abe Attell KO 7 Eddie Kelly, New Orleans. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1927- Charley Phil Rosenberg W 15 Bushy Graham, NYC. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1952- Kid Gavilan W 15 Bobby Dykes, Miami. Retains World Welterweight Title. Boxings first racially mixed bout in Florida. Gavilan wins by split scores of 142-141, 145-139, 141-142.

1960- Carlos Ortiz KO 10 Battling Torres, Los Angeles. Retains World Junior Welterweight Title.

1960- Jose Becerra KO 9 Alphonse Halimi, Los Angeles. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1979- Alexis Arguello KO 13 Alfredo Escalera, Rimini, Italy. Retains WBC World Super Featherweight Title.

1984- Donald Curry W 15 Marlon Starling, Atlantic City. Retains WBA World Welterweight Title.

1989- Marlon Starling KO 9 Lloyd Honeyghan, Las Vegas. Wins Lineal and WBC World Welterweight Titles.

1989- Mark Breland KO 1 Seung Soon Lee, Las Vegas. Regains (vacant) WBA World Welterweight Title.

1990- Jorge Paez W 12 Troy Dorsey, Las Vegas. Retains IBF World Featherweight Title.

1990- Hiyong Choi W 12 Leo Gamez, Ulsan, South Korea. Wins WBA World Junior Flyweight Title.

1998- Don King is robbed of a $100,000 diamond-encrusted Rolex watch when four armed men stop the promoter’s car in Mexico City.

2001- Carlos "Famoso" Hernandez KO 2 Sandro Marcos, Concho, OK. Lightweight Bout.

2001- Kelly Pavlik KO 3 Mathias Bedburdich, Concho, OK. Junior Middleweight Bout. The future lineal, WBC, WBO, and Ring Magazine World Middleweight Champion improved to 7-0, all by knockout.

2001- Steve Luevano (132) W 4 Jacob Godinez (141), Concho, OK. The future WBO World Featherweight Champion improved to 7-0 with 5 wins by knockout.

2005- Scott Dann KO 3 Allan Jones, Plymouth, Devon, England. Retained BBBofC British Middleweight Title.

2007- Lovemore Ndou KO 11 Naoufel Ben Rabah, Homebush Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (Moderator's Note: Ndou was awarded the vacant IBF World Junior Welterweight Title as a result of winning this bout. The bout was a title eliminator to determine the mandatory challenger for the IBF world junior welterweight title held by Ricky Hatton. After Hatton vacated the title, the IBF, on February 12, 2007, appointed Ndou as his successor.)

2007- Daniel Geale W 12 Lee Oti, Homebush Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Retains IBF Pan Pacific Junior Middleweight and OPBF Interim Super Welterweight Titles.

2007- Sakio Bika W 12 Andre Thysse, Homebush Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Retains IBF Australasian Super Middleweight Title.

2007- Paul Briggs W 12 Rupert van Aswegen, Homebush Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Wins vacant IBF Australasian Light Heavyweight Title.

2007- Robert Medley W 12 Kaizer Mabuza, Homebush Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Retains IBF Australasian Welterweight Title.

2009- Kwanthai Chor Nor Pattalung (later known as Kwanthai Sithmorseng) KO 3 Agus Situmorang, Chiengsaen, Chiang Rai, Thailand. Retains PABA Minimumweight Title.

2009- Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym KO 4 Carlos Lopez, Chiengsaen, Chiang Rai, Thailand. Retains PABA Super Bantamweight Title.

Born On This Day

1972- Oscar De La Hoya (born in Montebello, California)
American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother Joel Jr. were all boxers. De La Hoya was The Ring's "Fighter of the Year" in 1995 and Ring Magazine's top-rated Pound for Pound fighter in the world in 1997 & 1998. De La Hoya officially announced his retirement from the sport at a press conference held in Los Angeles on April 14, 2009.
De La Hoya has defeated 17 world champions and has won 10 world titles in six different weight classes. He has also generated more money than any other boxer in the history of the sport, an estimated $696 million pay-per-view income.
De La Hoya founded Golden Boy Promotions, a combat sport promotional firm. He is the first American of Hispanic descent to own a national boxing promotional firm and one of the few boxers to take on promotional responsibilities while still active.
De La Hoya's amateur career included 223 wins, 163 by knockout, with only five losses. In 1989, he won the National Golden Gloves title in the bantamweight division. In 1990, at the age of 17, he won the U.S. National Championship at featherweight and was the youngest U.S. boxer at that year’s Goodwill Games, winning a gold medal. The joy of victory was tempered by the news that his mother, Cecilia, was terminally ill with breast cancer. She died in October 1990, expressing the hope that her son would one day become an Olympic gold medalist.
The following year, De La Hoya won the U.S. Amateur Boxing National Championship in the lightweight division and he was named "Boxer of the Year" by U.S.A. boxing. With the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, approaching, De La Hoya turned his mother’s dream into a strong focus for his training. After an upset victory in the first round over the Cuban boxer Julio Gonzalez, De La Hoya defeated Marco Rudolph of Germany to win gold and become the only U.S. boxer to take home a medal from Barcelona. The U.S. media publicized his quest to fulfill his mother's dying wish and dubbed him with the nickname "The Golden Boy", which has remained with him throughout his career.
Amateur highlights
Olympic medal record
Men's Boxing
Gold 1992 Barcelona Lightweight
* 1989 Gold Medalist National Golden Gloves
* 1990 Gold Medalist US National Championships
* 1990 Gold Medalist Goodwill Games
* 1991 Gold Medalist US National Championships
* 1991 Gold Medalist US Olympic Festival
* 1992 Gold Medalist World Championships Challenge
* 1992 Gold Medalist Olympic Games[51]
Amateur record: 224-5
On 23 November 1992, De La Hoya made his professional debut by scoring a first round TKO victory. In his twelfth professional fight, he won his first world title at age 20, stopping Jimmy Bredahl (16-0) in the tenth round to win the WBO junior lightweight title. He defended the title once, stopping Giorgio Campanella (20-0) in three rounds.
On 29 July 1994, he knocked out Jorge Páez (53-6-4) in the second round to win the WBO lightweight title. In his first title defense, he defeated John-John Molina (36-3), who had recently vacated his IBF junior lightweight title, by unanimous decision. On 6 May 1995, De La Hoya defeated IBF lightweight champion Rafael Ruelas (43-1-0) in a unification bout. De La Hoya knocked Ruelas down down twice before the fight was stopped in the second round. The IBF then ordered De La Hoya to defend against Miguel Julio. He relinquished the IBF title, and defended the WBO title against undefeated Genaro Hernandez (32-0-1), who relinquished the WBA junior lightweight title to fight De La Hoya. Hernandez quit after six rounds because of a broken nose. In his sixth and final defense of the WBO lightweight title, he knocked out Jesse James Leija (30-1-2) in two rounds.
Light Welterweight title
On June 7, 1996, Oscar De La Hoya fought Mexican legend Julio César Chávez (96-1-1) for the WBC super lightweight championship. De la Hoya, with a record of 21-0 with 19 KOs, defeated Chavez by a fourth round TKO. The fight was stopped due to a bad cut suffered by Chavez. Until their rematch in 1998, Chávez stated that De La Hoya did not defeat him since the fight was stopped. De La Hoya successfully defended his title with a twelve round unanimous decision against undefeated former WBC lightweight champion and number one super lightweight contender Miguel Ángel González (41-0-0).
Welterweight title
On 12 March 1997, De La Hoya moved up to the welterweightdivision and fought Pernell Whitaker (40-1-1).[13] The fight proved to be a difficult one. De La Hoya won a disputed twelve round unanimous decision and became the Ring Magazine's number one ranked pound-for-pound fighter.
On 13 September 1997, he defeated Héctor Camacho (63-3-1) by unanimous decision. On 8 September 1998, he fought a rematch with Julio César Chávez (100-2-2) and defeated him by eighth round TKO. In his next bout, he faced undefeated former WBA welterweight champion Ike Quartey (34-0-1) and won by split decision. He then defeated Oba Carr (48-2-1) by eleventh round TKO.
After seven defenses of his WBC welterweight title, De La Hoya fought rival and IBF champion Félix Trinidad (35-0) on 18 September 1999, in one of the biggest pay-per-view events in history, setting a record for a non-heavyweight fight. Trinidad was ultimately awarded a majority decision. The judges scorecards came under question after the decision. Fans and boxing analysts called for a rematch, which never happened.
On 26 February 2000, De La Hoya knocked out Derrell Coley (34-1-2) in a WBC title eliminator. After Trinidad moved up to junior middleweight, the WBC awarded De La Hoya the welterweight title, which he lost to Shane Mosley (34-0) by a split decision on 17 June 2000.
De La Hoya took promoter Bob Arum to court in the fall of 2000, trying to break his contract with the promoter. The courts ruled in favor of the Golden Boy in February 2001. Tempers flared during the battle and reached a low in March 2001, when De La Hoya called Arum racist in a newspaper interview, and then apologized for the remarks.
“I don't have blue eyes and I am not white, but a Mexican arriving on the cusp of fame, and that is what they do not support,” De La Hoya told La Opinion in 2001. “Bob Arum's people hope I lose because they can't see a Mexican above them, and also that he defeated one of the biggest Jews to come out of Harvard.”
De La Hoya defeated Arturo Gatti (33-4) by fifth round TKO on 24 March 2001. He then moved up to super welterweight, challenging the Spanish WBC super welterweight champion Javier Castillejo. De La Hoya dominated the fight, winning almost every round and knocking Castillejo (51-4) down with ten seconds to go to win the title by a unanimous decision.
De La Hoya did not fight for the 15 months, and in this time the rivalry between him and WBA junior middleweight champion "Ferocious" Fernando Vargas (22-1) grew. They knew each other as amateurs and it is said the rivalry began when Vargas was angered by De La Hoya laughing at him after he fell into a snowbank. De La Hoya said he would never fight him. Eventually, however, De La Hoya accepted a match. The fight was scheduled for early 2002, but De La Hoya had to withdraw because of a hand injury.
The unification bout, labeled "Bad Blood", finally took place on 14 September 2002, at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The fight was even for the first six rounds, with Vargas landing punches on the ropes in the odd rounds, while De La Hoya outboxed him in the even rounds. De La Hoya took over the fight in the seventh round, and hurt Vargas with a left hook in the tenth. In the next round, De La Hoya knocked Vargas down with a left hook, and stopped him moments later. The win is widely considered to be the biggest of De La Hoya's career. Vargas tested positive for stanozolol after the fight.
De La Hoya defended his unified title against Yori Boy Campas (80-5) with a sixth round knokout and then faced Shane Mosley (38-2) in a rematch. The fight, billed as "Retribution" and staged at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, was more of a boxing match than their first encounter, and many rounds were close. Nevertheless, Mosley won a close unanimous decision, with all judges scoring the bout 115-113 in his favor, even though Compubox showed that De La Hoya had landed more punches. Mosley was later connected to the BALCO Labs steroid scandal. Jeff Novitzky, a lead investigator on the BALCO case, reported that documents seized from the lab show that Mosley received "the clear" and "the cream", both designer steroids. Mosley reportedly began his doping regimen prior to his rematch with Oscar De La Hoya.[16] Mosley would later admit to using performance-enhancing drugs from BALCO for this bout, saying he thought they were legal supplements.
De la Hoya next challenged Felix Sturm (20-0) for the WBO middleweight title on 5 June 2004. De La Hoya was awarded a unanimous decision, becoming the first boxer in history to win world titles in six different weight divisions. All three judges scored the bout 115-113 in favor of De La Hoya. The decision was controversial. Compubox counted Sturm as landing 234 of 541 punches, while counting De La Hoya as landing 188 of 792. The well known boxing site theboxingtribune.com picked Sturm as the winner by majority decision. Many Critics say De la Hoya only won the decision because his fight against Hopkins was already scheduled. Therefore Sturm would have had to knock him out in order to win.
De la Hoya fought Bernard Hopkins (44-2-1) in a unification match on 18 September 2004 in Las Vegas. Hopkins held the WBC, WBA, and IBF middleweight titles and was considered by many to be the number one pound for pound fighter in the world. Although the fight was at a catchweight of 158 pounds (72 kg), many thought De La Hoya was too small for the weight class, and Hopkins was considered a heavy favorite.
Several days before the fight, De la Hoya's hand was cut when his hand wraps were being cut off after training. The cut required eleven stitches.
De La Hoya fought a tactical fight. After eight rounds, De La Hoya was ahead 77-75 on one scorecard. He was behind 78-74 and 79-73 on the other two scorecards. In the ninth round, Hopkins knocked out De La Hoya with a left hook to the body. It was the first time in De La Hoya's career that he was knocked out.
De la Hoya later said he couldn't get up because the pain of a well placed livershot is unbearable. Despite losing, De La Hoya made over $30 million from the fight.
Bob Arum claimed De La Hoya took a dive. It didn't matter because Hopkins was going to win this bout one way or another. Like Mosley, Hopkins would get a job with Golden Boy Promotions.
De La Hoya responded, "So now he's going to attack me left and right. He's going to keep saying that I took a dive against Hopkins and that I'm in this only for the money. I can't stop him from saying those things. I think he's hurt. He's hurt because I chose not to stay with him until the end of my career.
De La Hoya took a layoff of 20 months, before signing to fight WBC super welterweight champion Ricardo Mayorga (27-5-1). In the buildup to the fight, Mayorga insulted everything from De La Hoya's sexuality to his wife and child, but when they fought on 6 May 2006, De La Hoya knocked Mayorga down in the first minute of the fight with a left hook. He knocked him out in the sixth round to take his tenth world title.
In early 2007, De La Hoya signed to defend his title against WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (37-0). De la Hoya was a two to one underdog in the fight.
The fight took place on 5 May 2007. De La Hoya pressed through out all the rounds, doing his best when he used his left jab. Mayweather controlled the later rounds and was ultimately rewarded with a split decision victory in front of a sold-out arena at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Chuck Giampi saw the fight 116-112 for Mayweather, while Jerry Roth also scored it for Mayweather at 115-113. Tom Kaczmarcek ruled for De La Hoya 115-113, but it was apparent to most observers that Mayweather largely controlled the fight. The Associated Press had Mayweather winning 116-112.
Mayweather dominated the stats, connecting on 207 of his 481 total punches thrown. De La Hoya threw more punches—587—but landed only 122.
On 3 May 2008, at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, De La Hoya fought Steve Forbes (33-5) in a tuneup for a possible rematch with Mayweather. De La Hoya showed a more relaxed style, throwing a constant jab and always staying on his toes. He opened a cut near Forbes' eye in the sixth round.
On 6 June 2008, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. announced his retirement from boxing, effectively ending talk of a rematch.
De La Hoya faced Manny Pacquiao (47-3-2) on 6 December 2008 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank, Inc., the bout was a twelve round non-title fight at the 147-pound (67 kg) welterweight limit. Although Manny Pacquiao went into the fight recognized as the leading pound for pound boxer in the world, some pundits speculated that 147 pounds could have been too far above his natural weight against the larger De La Hoya. However, Pacquiao's trainer Roach was confident of a victory as he stated that De La Hoya could no longer "pull the trigger" at that stage of his career. De La Hoya, who was favored to win the bout due to his size advantage, was expected to be the heavier of the two on fight night. However, though Pacquiao weighed 142 pounds (64 kg) and De La Hoya 145 pounds (66 kg) at the official weigh-in on Friday, De La Hoya entered the ring at 147 pounds to Pacquiao's 148.5 pounds (67.4 kg).
De La Hoya took a beating and his corner stopped the fight after the eighth round. Pacquiao was ahead on all three judges' scorecards before the stoppage, with two judges scoring the fight 80–71 and the other judge scoring it at 79–72. After the bout Pacquiao's trainer Freddy Roach stated, "We knew we had him after the first round. He had no legs, he was hesitant and he was shot." Confirming Roach's pre-fight predictions that he'd grown too old, De La Hoya crossed the ring to Pacquiao's corner after the bout was stopped and told Roach, "You're right Freddie. I don't have it anymore." When asked by reporters whether he would continue fighting, De La Hoya responded, "My heart still wants to fight, that's for sure", De La Hoya said. "But when your physical doesn't respond, what can you do? I have to be smart and make sure I think about my future plans." During the first episode of the HBO 24/7 Pacquiao–Hatton series, Roach had said he saw IV marks on De La Hoya's arm, pointing out that he needed to be rehydrated surgically as a last resort.
De La Hoya announced his retirement on April 14, 2009, ending any speculation about a potential fight with undefeated junior middleweight Julio César Chávez Jr.
De La Hoya was accused in a lawsuit of rape in 1998. The lawsuit, filed in San Bernardino (Calif.) County Superior Court, alleged that De La Hoya raped a woman, who was 15 at the time, in a hotel room in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in June 1996. The case was settled out of court in 2001.
In 2000 he released a Grammy-nominated CD, entitled Oscar De La Hoya. Released through EMI International. The self-titled CD is a Latin pop album with 13 tracks in both English and Spanish written by Diane Warren and the Bee-Gees.
On 5 October 2001, De La Hoya married Millie Corretjer. They have two children together. He also has a daughter with Shanna Moakler.
In 2004 he debuted a clothing line of casual, and active-inspired apparel through Mervyns department stores. In the summer of 2004, De La Hoya starred in and hosted a boxing reality television series on Fox and Fox Sports Net titled The Next Great Champ.
In 2005, Golden Boy Enterprises announced the formation of Golden Boy Partners, a company focused on urban development in Latino communities.
This fictional picture book was the 2007 Bilingual Children's Picture Book of the year.
In 2006, De La Hoya authorized a children's picture book titled Super Oscar published by Simon and Schuster and released in his name. The book was written by noted children's author Mark Shulman and illustrated by children's illustrator Lisa Kopelke. The book tells the story of young Oscar as a daydreamer, who uses his great physical ability to prepare an elaborate picnic for his entire neighborhood in just fifteen minutes. Written in English and Spanish, the book received unanimously positive reviews from the publishing review journals. Super Oscar was selected as the winner of the 2007 Latino Book Awards Best Bilingual Children's Picture Book of the year.
In September 2007, De La Hoya's company Golden Boy Enterprises acquired The Ring, KO Magazine, World Boxing Magazine and Pro Wrestling Illustrated from Kappa Publishing Group.
In late 2007, photographs featuring De La Hoya cross-dressed in company of a woman not his wife were posted on a tabloid website and received extensive publicity across the internet. De la Hoya has denied the authenticity of the photos. His lawyer stated, "The photographs depicting Mr. De La Hoya's image that were posted online today by an obscure paparazzi Web site are fake. Many of the Web site's viewers (as reflected in postings on the site) identified the photos as 'a really bad photoshop job.' Unfortunately, with today's technology, anyone can make any photo seem like something other than it is." In September 2007, Mila Dravnel, the woman who sold the photographs, recanted her allegations against De La Hoya and denied the authenticity of the photographs.[41] However, in May 2008, Dravnel sued De La Hoya for slander, but she dropped the lawsuit after experts determined the photographs had been digitally doctored.
On 1 May 2007, the Staples Center sports arena announced that a 7-foot (2.1 m) bronze statue of Oscar De La Hoya would join similar tributes to Los Angeles sports stars Magic Johnson and Wayne Gretzky at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. The statue was unveiled on 2 December 2008.
In February 2008, Golden Boy acquired a 25% stake of Major League Soccer side Houston Dynamo, along with Brener International Group.
De La Hoya started a charitable foundation to help underprivileged youth to education. In 2008, he donated $3.5 million to the De La Hoya Animo Charter High School.
In June 2008, De La Hoya published his autobiography entitled "American Son".
He is a member of the 2008 United States Olympic Hall of Fame.
Oscar De La Hoya is on the front covers of the PS3, Xbox 360, and PSP versions of EASports' Fight Night Round 3.
In 2008, De La Hoya starred in a commercial alongside several Mexican boxing champions for Pronosticos lottery in Mexico. The 300 film inspired commercial featured the Mexican champions battling giants and other large creatures.

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A YEAR AGO:

February 4, 2011-

Fort Worth, Texas, USA-

In a bout fought at a contractually agreed upon limit of 163 pounds, Brian Vera won a 10-round, split decision over former WBC world super welterweight champion Sergio Mora.

Santa Ynez, California, USA-

Lateef Kayode outpointed Nick Iannuzzi over 10 rounds to retain the NABF cruiserweight and WBO NABO junior heavyweight titles.

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2005

Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, Connecticut:

Kendall Holt TKO'd David Diaz in the 8th round - Junior Welterweight Bout.

Oscar Diaz won a 10 round UD over Al Gonzalez - Welterweight Bout.


Jacksonville, Florida:

Javier Jauregui won a 10 round UD over Cristian Favela - Lightweight Bout.

Librado Andrade TKO'd Nicolas Cervera in the 3rd round - Super Middleweight Bout.


Hollywood, Florida:

Ricky Quiles won a 12 round SD over Edner Cherry - IBF Lightweight Eliminator for the #2 Spot in the Rankings.

Dale Brown TKO'd Shelby Gross in the 5th round- Cruiserweight Bout.


2000

Tbilisi, Georgia:

Koba Gogoladze won a 10 round decision over David Turner - Retained World Boxing Federation International Lightweight Title.


Indio, California:

Antonio Diaz KO'd James Crayton in the 7th round - Retained IBA Junior Welterweight Title.

Israel Vazquez won a 10 round SD over Hector Velazquez - Featherweight Bout (both fighters weighed in at 124).


1999

Worley, Idaho:

Oleg Maskaev TKO'd Jeff Wooden in the 3rd round - Retained PABA Heavyweight Title.


1995

Beziers, Herault, France:

Winky Wright won a 12 round UD over Tony Marshall - Won Vacant NABF Super Welterweight Title.

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1984- Donald Curry W 15 Marlon Starling, Atlantic City. Retains WBA World Welterweight Title.

1989- Marlon Starling KO 9 Lloyd Honeyghan, Las Vegas. Wins Lineal and WBC World Welterweight Titles.


Win or lose, Marlon Starling was always there right at the front of the welterweight division in the 80s. Ring magazine named him the fourth best welter of the entire decade. Not too shabby when you have names like Leonard and Curry in the mix.

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Other results from seven years ago:

February 4, 2005-

Orangeville, Ontario, Canada-

Future IBF world cruiserweight title challenger Troy Ross knocked out Etianne Whitaker in the second round of a scheduled 8-round cruiserweight bout.

Nonthaburi, Thailand-

Sataporn Singwancha knocked out Monte Carlos in the second round to win the vacant WBC Asian Boxing Council super lightweight title.

On the undercard, former two-time world champion Sirimongkol Singwancha (AKA Sirimongkol Singmanasak) tuned up for his scheduled WBC world lightweight title eliminator by outpointing Donny Suratin over 6 rounds. Sirimongkol, who held the WBC world bantamweight title from January 1997 until August 1997 and the WBC world super featherweight title from August 2002 until August 2003, went on to stop Michael Clark in the seventh round of the WBC eliminator held May 14, 2005 in Las Vegas.

In another bout on the undercard, former WBC world strawweight champion Wandee Singwancha (formerly known as Wandee Chor Chareon), then the reigning WBC International light flyweight champ, won a non-title six-rounder by unanimously outpointing Alwi Alhabsyi. Wandee would go on to briefly hold the WBC interim light flyweight title.

Bangkok, Thailand-

Future WBC world light flyweight champion Kompayak Porpramook knocked out Archasuk Sithramkamhaeng in the second round. Kompayak would go on to win the world title on December 23, 2011 by knocking out defending champion Adrian Hernandez in the tenth round of an action-filled fight.

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2012-

Yoan Pablo Hernandez W 12 Steve Cunningham, Frankfurt, Germany. Referee: Eddie Cotton | judge: Massimiliano Bianco 115-111 | judge: Alejandro Lopez Cid 116-110 | judge: Pasquale Procopio 116-110. Hernandez retained the IBF world cruiserweight title and won the vacant Ring Magazine world cruiserweight title.

Julio Cesar Chavez W 12 Marco Antonio Rubio, San Antonio, TX. Referee: Jose Guadalupe Garcia | judge: Duane Ford 116-112 | judge: Glen Rick Crocker 118-110 | judge: Jack Woodburn 115-113. Chavez retained the WBC world middleweight title.

Nonito Donaire W 12 Wilfredo Vasquez Jr., San Antonio, TX. Referee: Rafael Ramos | judge: Levi Martinez 117-110 | judge: Don Trella 117-110 | judge: Ruben M. Garcia 112-115. Donaire won the WBO world junior featherweight title.

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SIXTY YEARS AGO TODAY:

February 4, 1956-

Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany-

German heavyweight Hans Friedrich scored an upset 10-round decision over former top-ranked American contender Rex Layne.

Unbeaten German welterweight champion Guenter Hase retained the BDB title via a 12-round draw with challenger and future German champ Ernst Zetzmann.

Former Commonwealth and BBBofC British heavyweight champion Johnny Williams and former European light heavyweight champion and reigning BDB German light heavyweight champ Willi Hoepner battled to a 10-round draw.

Germany's Willi Besmanoff, gradually transitioning from the light heavyweight division to the heavyweight class, scored an 8-round decision over French light heavyweight Jacques Bro thus avenging the 6-round decision he lost to Bro on December 5, 1955.