1905- Marvin Hart KO 12 Jack Root, Reno. Wins vacant world heavyweight title. Former heavyweight champion James J. Jefferies officiates. https://uploadir.com/u/u9khytvk
1915- Gene Tunney KO 9 Bobby Dawson, NYC. Tunney’s pro debut.
1940- Willie Pep W 4 James McGovern, Hartford, CT. Pep’s pro debut. Pep would win his first 63-fights before suffering his first defeat at the hands of lightweight champ Sammy Angott.
1974- Soo Hwan Hong W 15 Arnold Taylor, Durban. Wins WBA bantamweight title.
2008- Hugo Garay W 12 Yuri Barashian, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Wins vacant WBA Light Heavyweight Title.
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ScapposeJohn commenting on Shane Mosely possibly being unaware he was taking PED's wrote:
Likewise. It reminds me of President Clinton saying that he smoked weed in college but never inhaled. Yeah..........right.
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ScapposeJohn commenting on Shane Mosely possibly being unaware he was taking PED's wrote:
Likewise. It reminds me of President Clinton saying that he smoked weed in college but never inhaled. Yeah..........right.
1861- Peter Jackson (born Christiansted, Danish West Indies)
Jackson was a boxer from Australia. He was born in Christiansted, at the island Saint Croix which was then the capital of the Danish West Indies (yet after his time it became U.S. Virgin Islands) the son of Peter Jackson, warehouseman, and his wife, and grandson of Jackson's freed slave Peter. Born a free man he was in fact a Danish citizen before he gained his Australian citizenship. Jackson had a good primary school education before he became a mariner. Landing in Sydney about 1880, he worked on the waterfront and in hotels before drifting to Brisbane and into a career in boxing in 1882 under the tuition of Larry Foley. Standing at the Height of 6' 1 1/2" tall and weighing in at 192-210 lbs he became the winner of the Australian Heavyweight championship in 1886. Originally working on ships as a deck hand in the Sydney Docks since he was 14, he used his fist to quell a mutiny. This garnered him some notoriety and brought him to the attention of Larry Foley and started his career in boxing. He came to be known as "Black Prince" and "Peter the Great.
Jackson won the Australian heavyweight title in 1886 with a knockout of Tom Lees in the 30th round, and the British Commonwealth title against Jem Smith by KO in the second round. In 1888 he beat "Old Chocolate" Godfrey to gain the world 'colored' heavyweight championship.
On May 21, 1891, in Benicia, California Jackson fought James Corbett because the reigning John L. Sullivan wouldn't fight him because he was black. The match went 61 rounds before it was declared no contest because both boxers were too exhausted to continue.
In 1898 he lost to James J. Jeffries
Jackson was at one stage a pupil of "The Black Diamond" Jack Dowridge, a Barbadian Immigrant who pioneered boxing in Queensland, Australia. Among Dowridge's other pupils was "Gentleman Jack" John Reid McGowan, a fellow Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee.
Jackson died of tuberculosis in Roma, Queensland.
A short time after becoming the first black heavyweight champion of the world, "The Galveston Giant" Jack Johnson (boxer) made a pilgrimage to Jackson's grave, a measure of the respect in which the man was held not only in Queensland, but in the boxing community worldwide.
Jackson's tomb is emblazoned with the words "This was a man".
1963- Chris Pyatt (born in Islington UK)
Pyatt is a former world middleweight champion boxer from Leicester, England. Born in Islington on 2 July 1963 his record reads:
Won 47 (KOs 34), Lost 5, Drew 0, NC 0, ND 0, Tot 52
He won the WBO belt against Sumbu Kalambay on 19 May 1993 but lost it against Steve Collins on 11 May 1994 after 2 successful defences.
Pyatt is currently running a boxing gym in Leicester.
1965- John John Molina (born Juan Molina in Fajardo, Puerto Rico)
Molina a former boxer whose career transcended boxing in Puerto Rico. A multiple time world champion, this boxer was also known as quite a socialite.
Molina represented Puerto Rico as a Bantamweight at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. His results were:
* 1st round bye
* Defeated Jarmo Eskelinen (Finland) 5-0
* Lost to Pedro Nolasco (Dominican Republic) 2-3
Molina won the amateur world boxing championships in 1985, by knocking out Kelcie Banks in the finals. Upon returning to Puerto Rico, the 20-year-old youngster announced to Rafael Bracero on tv he would be ready to fight professional world Featherweight champion Victor Luvi Callejas within a year. That wasn't to happen, however.
Molina stated out as a professional on February 25 of 1986, beating Job Walters by a decision in four. His first three fights were decisions. He won his first 14 bouts, nine of them by knockout. Among the people he beat during that span was Victor Aponte, who was a stablemate of both Alberto Mercado and Juan Carazo. Aponte got knocked out by Molina in the 10th and final round. During this period of his career, Molina received much television exposure in Puerto Rico, many of his fights being shown on TV by producer and fight commentator Ivonne Class and her Video Deportes company.
Then, he faced Lupe Suarez, losing for the first time, when he was knocked out in the ninth round. Immediately after suffering his first loss, he embarked on a five-fight win streak, including a disqualification win in four rounds over former Hector Camacho world title challenger Rafael Solis, and a knockout in eight over Miguel Medina. After those two wins, he was ranked as the number one challenger by the IBF.
On October 27, 1988, Molina was at The Arco Arena in Sacramento, to challenge the IBF world Jr. Lightweight champion Tony Lopez, in what marked the beginning of a three-fight rivalry between Molina and Lopez. Molina dropped Lopez in round two, but Lopez went on to retain the title by a split decision.
In his next fight, April 29, 1989, the WBO put him and former WBC world Featherweight champion Juan Laporte against each other for the vacant WBO world title. Molina became a world champion by beating Laporte by a 12-round unanimous decision at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan. Then, in September of that year, he returned to the Arco Arena to resume his rivalry with Lopez. Molina added the IBF belt to his WBO crown by knocking Lopez out in the tenth round.
On January 28, 1990, he avenged his loss to Suarez by knocking him out in the sixth round to retain the belt, but then, on May 20 of that year, he and Lopez met for their rubber match, this time in Reno. Lopez dropped Molina and won a unanimous decision to recover his status as world Jr. Lightweight champion.
Between then and 1992, Molina won five straight fights, four by knockout. And so, after Brian Mitchell (who had beaten Lopez), left the IBF title vacant due to retirement, Molina travelled to South Africa, where he met Jackie Gunguzula for the vacant world title. He knocked Gunguzula out in the fourth round to become world champion once again, and, days later, he was the object of a large welcoming at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan. During this period of his reign, Molina made seven defenses, beating challengers like Bernard Taylor, Floyd Havard, Wilson Rodriguez, former world Featherweight champion Gregorio Vargas and future world Featherweight champion Manuel "Mantecas" Medina, among others.
Around then, he became quite known by the mainstream Puerto Rican public, becoming one of the first boxers ever to be portrayed on the cover of Vea magazine, and dating a famous model.
Molina then moved up in weight to challenge the WBO's world Lightweight champion Oscar de la Hoya, losing by a majority decision in 12 rounds in an HBO Boxing televised event.
After that, Molina engaged in a series of fights against mostly lower-level opposition for the next two years, and he grew frustrated over the fact that his opposition level was being downgraded by promoters after the fight with de la Hoya. He won his next nine bouts, but the only two opponents that can probably be called respectable names in his list of opponents during that span were Jaime "Rocky" Balboa, beaten by decision in ten, and Isaac Cruz, beaten by a disqualification in four.
In May 9, 1998, Molina was given a second chance at the world's Lightweight championship, when he met IBF world champion Sugar Shane Mosley, in Molina's second HBO fight. Mosley retained the title by a knockout in the eighth round, and Molina went back to the Jr. Lightweight division.
His next fight was also for the world title, but he had to wait nine months for that fight. On February 1999, he faced IBF world Jr. Lightweight champion Roberto Garcia, dropping the champion in their Pay Per View event but losing a 12-round decision in what turned out to be his last world title fight.
Molina wasn't done with boxing, and he went on to win seven more fights in a row, including two decision wins that were televised by the USA Network: over Emanuel Burton and future Kostya Tszyu world title challenger Ben Tackie.
After those two wins, however, he got frustrated once again, with the improbability of getting another chance at Garcia or any other world champion. So then, he decided to announce his retirement, and, so far, he has stayed retired.
He had a record of 52 wins and 7 losses, with 33 wins by knockout.
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ScapposeJohn commenting on Shane Mosely possibly being unaware he was taking PED's wrote:
Likewise. It reminds me of President Clinton saying that he smoked weed in college but never inhaled. Yeah..........right.
