March 21st

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March 21st

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1924- Abe Goldstein, a newspaper writer turned boxer, wins the world Bantamweight title, with a fifteen round decision over Joe Lynch, at New York.

1930- Midget Wolgast wins the vacant New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) World Flyweight title with a fifteen round decision over Black Bill, New York City. Wolgast was considered one of the fastest boxers of his time.

1941- Joe Louis KO 13 Abe Simon, Detroit. Retains World Heavyweight Title. Louis’ 3rd of 7-title defenses of that year.

1963- A world title tripleheader in Los Angeles: Roberto Cruz won the vacant WBA World Junior Welterweight title by knocking out Battling Torres in the first round; Luis Rodriguez wins the lineal, WBA, WBC, and Ring Magazine World Welterweight titles by defeating Emile Griffith with a fifteen round decision. Then, the card turns tragic when Sugar Ramos takes the lineal, WBA, WBC, and Ring Magazine World Featherweight titles away from Davey Moore, who would later die of the injuries suffered in the bout.

1997- Roy Jones Jr. loses his WBC World light heavyweight title by disqualification to Montell Griffin for hitting after the fighter was down, suffering the first loss in his career, Jones Jr. was behind on two score cards. Jones sought an immediate rematch and regained the world light heavyweight title easily, knocking Griffin down within the first 20 seconds of the fight, then ending the fight by knocking Griffin out just over two minutes.

1982- Dwight Muhammad Qawi KO 6 Jerry "The Bull" Martin, Las Vegas. Retains WBC and Ring Magazine World Light Heavyweight Titles.

1982- Aaron Pryor KO 12 Miguel Montilla, Atlantic City. Retains WBA World Super Lightweight and Ring Magazine World Junior Welterweight Titles.

1988- Mike Tyson KO 2 Tony Tubbs, Tokyo. Retains WBC, WBA, and IBF World Heavyweight Titles.


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1975- Mahyar Monshipour and Souleyman M’Baye
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1914- Matt Wells W 20 Tom McCormick, Sydney. Wins World Welterweight Title.

1914- Joe Jeanette W 15 Georges Carpentier, Paris.

1924- Abe Goldstein W 15 Joe Lynch, NYC. Wins World Bantamweight Title.

1930- Midget Wolgast W 15 Black Bill, NYC. Wins vacant New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) World Flyweight Title.

1933- Freddie Miller W 10 Speedy Dado, Los Angeles. Retains NBA World Featherweight Title.

1938- Fritzie Zivic W 10 Charley Burley, Pittsburgh. Welterweight Bout.

1941- Joe Louis KO 13 Abe Simon, Detroit. Retains World Heavyweight Title. Louis’ 3rd of 7-title defenses in 1941.

1953- Jimmy Carruthers KO 10 Vic Toweel, Johannesburg. Retains World Bantamweight Title.

1963- Luis Rodriguez W 15 Emile Griffith, Los Angeles. Wins Lineal, WBA, WBC, and Ring Magazine World Welterweight Titles.

1963- Roberto Cruz KO 1 Battling Torres, Los Angeles. Wins vacant WBA World Junior Welterweight Title.

1963- Sugar Ramos KO 11 Davey Moore, Los Angeles. Wins Lineal, WBA, WBC, and Ring Magazine World Featherweight Titles.

1982- Dwight Muhammad Qawi KO 6 Jerry Martin, Las Vegas. Retains WBC and Ring Magazine World Light Heavyweight Titles.

1982- Aaron Pryor KO 12 Miguel Montilla, Atlantic City. Retains WBA World Super Lightweight and Ring Magazine World Junior Welterweight Title.

1988- Mike Tyson KO 2 Tony Tubbs, Tokyo. Retains WBC, WBA, and IBF World Heavyweight Titles.

1997- Montell Griffin W disq. 9 Roy Jones Jr., Atlantic City. Wins WBC World Light Heavyweight Title. Jones lands 2-heavy shots after Griffin takes a knee.

1998- Zolani Petelo W 12 Faisol Akbar, Hammanskraal, South Africa. Retains IBF World Mini-Flyweight Title.

2009- Vitali Klitschko KO 9 Juan Carlos Gomez, Stuttgart, Germany. Retains WBC World Heavyweight Title.

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1952- Alfredo Escalera (born Carolina, Puerto Rico)
Puerto Rican boxer who was a world champion boxer. His nickname was "Salsero" because he was a fan of Salsa music.
Escalera had his first professional bout on September 4, 1970, against Bob Payzant, in Portland. He won by a knockout in round four. He would suffer his first defeat in his third fight, when faced against Doug McClendon, who beat him by a decision in six rounds on January 26, 1971, in New York. He won five bouts in a row, and then lost by decision in eight rounds to future world title challenger Edwin Viruet.
He began 1972 by losing to another future world title challenger, Diego Alcala, by knockout in round eight, but he won his three other fights that year.
In 1973, he began, once again, by losing to another future world title challenger, Miguel Montilla, by a decision in ten rounds. Before the year was over, however, he was able to avenge that defeat, defeating Montilla by a knockout in round eight, and he won seven of his eight other fights that year.
By 1974, he began climbing up the super featherweight rankings, going 8-2 that year. He beat his own future world title challenger Sigfredo Rodriguez by a knockout in round one, and former world champion Ricardo Arredondo by a disqualification in round eight.
On July 4, 1975, he fought the WBC super featherweight champion Kuniaki Shibata in Mito, knocking Shibata out in round two to become the WBC super featherweight champion.
Escalera became a house-hold name in Puerto Rico during his tenure as world champion. He appeared in television commercials and was a popular public figure.
He defended his title ten times, including wins over Ray Lunny, Sigfredo Rodriguez and Tyrone Everrett.
He lost his title on January 28, 1978, to Alexis Argüello of Nicaragua by a knockout in round 13 in Bayamón. In this fight, Escalera suffered a broken nose and tooth, a cut on his tongue and above his left eye, and a closed right eye before submitting to Argüello. The first Arguello-Escalera encounter has been dubbed as "The Bloody Battle of Bayamon".
Escalera and Argüello had a rematch, on February 4, 1979, in Rimini, and Escalera held a small lead on the judges' cards after 12 rounds. However, he was knocked out in round 13 by Argüello. Shortly after drawing with Antonio Cruz in ten rounds in October of that year, he announced his retirement.
In 1980, Escalera dedicated himself to the sport of professional wrestling, competing on the Puerto Rican professional wrestling circuit. However, in 1981, he launched a boxing comeback. He lost to future world light welterweight champion Gene Hatcher in San Antonio, but he beat former world title challenger Maurice Termite Watkins at "The Battle of the Champions'" undercard in Miami, to complete his 1982 boxing campaign.
In 1983, he avenged his loss to Hatcher, dropping him in round six and scoring a ten round unanimous decision win at the Roberto Durán-Davey Moore world title fight undercard in Madison Square Garden. On September 15 of that year he lost to future world title challenger Charlie White Lighting Brown.
After the Brown fight, Escalera announced his retirement from boxing once again. Shortly after, it was discovered that he had eyesight problems and had been fighting almost blinded for his last few fights.
Escalera now enjoys the fruits of his career in his farm in Puerto Rico. His son, Alfredo Escalera Jr., is currently a boxer who is based in Florida.
The avid autograph signer left a boxing record of 53 wins, 14 losses and 3 draws, with 31 wins by knockout. His two fights with Argüello are considered by many to be boxing classics, Argüello-Escalera I making The Ring magazine's list of 100 greatest fights of all time at number 31, and Argüello-Escalera II making it at number 68.

1975- Mahyar Monshipour (born in Bam, Iran)
Iranian-born French boxer who was the World Boxing Association's super bantamweight champion for nearly three years between 2003 and 2006. He lost his belt to Thai Somsak Sithchatchawal on 18 May 2006, in a match that won The Ring Fight of the Year and Harry Markson Awards, the latter the prize for "fight of the year" awarded by the Boxing Writers Association of America.

1975- Souleyman M’Baye (born in Clichy, France)
Professional boxer and is the former WBA super-lightweight champion. He won the vacated title by a fourth technical knockout on September 2, 2006 against Raul Horacio Balbi. His current record is 37 wins, three losses and a draw, with 21 wins coming by way of knockout. His defeats came against former WBA super-lightweight champion Vivian Harris, former WBA light-welterweight champion Gavin Rees, and Herman Ngoudjo. On May 28, M'baye defeated Antonin Decarie by unanimous decision to capture the WBA Interim welterweight championship.
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Re: March 21st

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From TTR's archives:

Thursday, March 21, 2013-

Kiev, Ukraine-

Vacant WBC International Cruiserweight Title-
Dmytro Kucher (WBC #4, IBF #6, The Ring #9, TTR #12, WBO #13; 21-0, 15 KOs)
Unan. Dec. 12
Julio Cesar Dos Santos (22-2, 20 KOs)
- Kucher won all twelve rounds on each of the three judges' cards. He won by three 120-108 scores.
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SIXTY YEARS AGO:

March 21, 1956-

Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina-

Reigning World flyweight champion and future Hall of Famer (IBHOF; WBHF) Pascual Perez knocked out Antonio Gomez in the second round of their non-title rematch.

On February 10, 1956, in their first non-title bout, Perez rose from a second round knockdown to outpoint Gomez over 10 rounds.

Ravenna, Emilia Romagna, Italy-

Reigning EBU European bantamweight champion and future World bantamweight champ Mario D'Agata defeated journeyman Jesus Rubio on points over 10 rounds in a non-title bout.

St. Louis, Missouri, USA-

Future World welterweight champion Virgil Akins unanimously outpointed Hector Constance over 10 rounds.

In an 8-round middleweight bout fought on the undercard, future World Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Del Flanagan outpointed Johnny Neal.

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