1914- Freddie Welsh W 20 Willie Ritchie, London. Wins world lightweight title. Legend has it that Welsh, upon learning that his $7000 guarantee was lost in the promotion, attacked his manager and bit off part of his ear.
2001- Jesse James Leija NC 5 Hector Camacho Jr. Coney Island, NY.
- From BoxRec: Fight is stopped when Camacho is not able to see out of his eye due to a cut caused by an accidental headbutt. Originally ruled as a Technical decision for Camacho. On 7/26/01, following a protest by the Leija camp, the NY State Athletic Commission changed the result to a No Contest. It ruled the bell to start the 6th round had not officially been rung, therefore the fight did not go the required distance in which to render a technical decision.
- From Ken Pollitt, the13thround.com: Ironically, Leija won a 5-round technical split decision over Micky Ward in his next bout. The bout was held in Leija's home state of Texas. Like the Camacho-Leija fight, Leija-Ward was scheduled for 10 rounds and the bout was stopped before the 6th round. However, Texas' rules differed from New York's. Had Camacho-Leija been held in Texas, the original ruling would not have been overturned.
2007- Florante Condes W 12 Muhammad Rachman, Jakarta, Indonesia. Wins IBF Mini-Flyweight Title.
1995
Steve Robinson TKO'd Pedro Ferradas in the 9th round to retain the WBO Featherweight Title.
2000
Kali Meehan TKO'd James Grima in the 2nd round to win the Australian heavyweight Title.
Mehrdud Takaloo TKO'd Anthony Farnell in the 1st round to win the Vacant WBU Light-Middleweight Title.
Last edited by straycat on Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:43 am, edited 2 times in total.
Ĩ ÁM ŚŤŔÁŶČÁŤ ÁŃĎ Ĩ ÁPPŔŐVĔ ŤĤĨŚ MĔŚŚÁĞĔ
>^^< ŚŤŔÚŤ!
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.
1921- Ezzard Charles (born Ezzard Mack Charles in Lawrenceville, Georgia, July 7, 1921 – May 28, 1975)
African-American professional boxer and former world heavyweight champion. He holds wins over numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three different weight classes. Charles retired with a record of 93 wins, 25 losses and 1 draw.
Although he was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia, but is commonly thought of as a Cincinnatian. Charles graduated from Woodward High School in Cincinnati where he was already becoming a well-known fighter. Known as "The Cincinnati Cobra," Charles is best remembered for his wins as a heavyweight, but most experts feel he was in his prime as a light heavyweight. Although he never won the championship at that weight, Ring magazine has rated him as the greatest light heavyweight of all time.
Ezzard Charles started his career as a featherweight in the amateurs, where he had a record of 42-0. In 1938, he won the Diamond Belt Middleweight Champion. He followed this up in 1939 by winning the Chicago Golden Gloves tournament of champions. He won the national AAU Middleweight Championship in 1939. He turned pro in 1940, knocking out Melody Johnson in the 4th round. Charles won all of his first 15 fights before being defeated by veteran Ken Overlin. Victories over future Hall of Famers Teddy Yarosz and the much avoided Charley Burley had started to solidify Charles as a top contender in the Middleweight division. However, he served in the U.S. military during World War II and was unable to fight professionally in 1945.
He returned to boxing after the war as a light heavyweight, picking up many notable wins over leading light heavyweight as well as heavyweight contenders Archie Moore, Jimmy Bivins, Lloyd Marshall, and Elmer Ray. Shortly after his knock-out of Moore in their third and final meeting, tragedy struck. Charles fought a young contender named Sam Baroudi, knocking him out in Round 10. Baroudi died of the injuries he sustained in this bout. Charles was so devastated he almost gave up fighting. Charles was unable to secure a title shot at light heavyweight, and moved up to heavyweight. After knocking out Joe Baksi and Johnny Haynes, Charles won the vacant National Boxing Association world heavyweight title when he outpointed Jersey Joe Walcott over 15 rounds on June 22, 1949. The following year, he outpointed his idol and former world heavyweight champion Joe Louis to become the recognized lineal champion. Successful defenses against Walcott, Lee Oma and Joey Maxim would follow.
In 1951, Charles fought Walcott a third time and lost the title by knockout in the seventh round. Charles lost a controversial decision in the fourth and final bout. If Charles had won this fight he would have become the first man in history to regain the heavyweight championship. Remaining a top contender with wins over Rex Layne, Tommy Harrison, and Coley Wallace, Charles knocked out Bob Satterfield in an eliminator bout for the right to challenge Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano. His two stirring battles with Marciano are regarded as ring classics. In the first bout, held in June 1954, he valiantly took Rocky the distance, going down on points in a vintage heavyweight bout. In their September rematch, a severely cut Marciano rallied to KO Charles in the 8th round, in a bout that was named Ring Magazine's "Fight of the Year." Financial problems forced Charles to continue fighting, losing 12 of his final 23 fights. He retired with a record of 96-25-1 (58 KOs).
Charles was also a respected double bass player who played with some of the jazz greats in the 40s and 50s at such notable places as Birdland. He was very close with Rocky Marciano and a neighbor and friend of Muhammed Ali when they both lived on 85th street in Chicago. Charles also starred in one motion picture: "Mau Mau Drums", an independent (and unreleased) jungle-adventure film shot in and around Cincinnati in 1960 by filmmaker Earl Schwieterman.
Ezzard Charles died May 28, 1975, in Chicago from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, aged 53, and was interred in the historic Burr Oak Cemetery, in Alsip, Illinois. In 1976 Cincinnati honored Charles by changing the name of Lincoln Park Drive to Ezzard Charles Drive. This was the street of his residence during the height of his career.
He was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
In 2002, Charles was ranked #13 on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years.
In 2006, Ezzard Charles was named the 11th greatest fighter of all time by the IBRO (International Boxing Research Organisation).
The “Cincinnati Cobra” was a master boxer of extraordinary skill and ability. He had speed, agility, fast hands and excellent footwork. Charles possessed a masterful jab and was a superb combination puncher. He was at his peak as a light-heavyweight. His record is quite impressive. Against top rate opposition like Archie Moore, Charley Burley, Lloyd Marshall, Jimmy Bivins, and Joey Maxim he was an impressive 16-2 combined. Despite being a natural light-heavy he won the heavyweight title and made 9 successful title defenses. Nearly 25% of voters had Charles in the top 10. Half of the voters had him in the top 15. Two thirds of voters had him inside the top 20.
ESPN online ranks Ezzard Charles as the 27th greatest boxer of all time, ahead of such notable fighters as Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Larry Holmes and Jake LaMotta.
In 2009, Boxing Magazine listed Ezzard Charles as the greatest Light Heavyweight fighter ever, beating the likes of Archie Moore, Bob Foster, Gene Tunney.
Prominent Boxing historian, Bert Sugar, listed Charles as the 7th greatest Heavyweight of all time.
1944- Emanuel Steward (born in in Bottom Creek, West Virginia)
Steward is a boxing trainer, commentator and inductee of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame.
Steward was born in West Virginia, and by the age of 12, he had moved with his mother to Detroit, Michigan. When he moved to Detroit, he began frequenting the Brewster Recreation Center, where Joe Louis and Eddie Futch trained, and began an amateur boxing career. Steward compiled a record of 95 wins and 3 losses as an amateur boxer, including winning the 1963 national Golden Gloves tournament in the bantamweight division. Afterwards Steward became interested in training amateur boxers, but due to his family's economic situation he needed a steady job, and so he temporarily became an electrician.
In 1971 Steward took his half brother James to the nearby Kronk Gym and became a part time head coach in Kronk Gym.
By the 1970s, Kronk became an amateur boxer hot-bed, as Steward trained many of the nation's top amateur contenders. He eventually translated that success with amateurs into a career training championship-level professional fighters.
On March 2 of 1980 Hilmer Kenty became Steward's first world champion by knocking out world Lightweight champ Ernesto España). He achieved his most notable success with welterweight Thomas Hearns, whom he changed from a light hitting boxer into a devastating puncher. Hearns became one of Steward's most successful and popular fighters, fighting Sugar Ray Leonard, knocking out Roberto Durán, and challenging undisputed Middleweight Champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler in a fight known as The War.
Steward is still training fighters in Detroit, Michigan.
He is also the new trainer / manager of Puerto Rican superstar Miguel Cotto, which in his first fight with him as a trainer on June 5th, 2010 became World Champion (4th time in 3 different categories), defeating Yuri Foreman at the new Yankee Stadium by the way of knockout in the 9th round.
* Elected into the International Boxing Hall of Fame
* Elected into the World Boxing Hall of Fame
Kronk became a property of Steward, who now is famous also for his collection of Rolls Royce cars and mansion. He opened a branch of the gym in Tucson, Arizona, and has started an association with the Dodge Theater in Phoenix to present boxing undercards once a month.
Among the world champions who have trained or sought Steward's guidance at some point of their career are:
* Thomas Hearns
* Dennis Andries
* Wilfred Benítez
* Julio César Chávez
* Kermit Cintron
* Oscar De La Hoya
* John David Jackson
* Naseem Hamed
* Oliver McCall
* Evander Holyfield
* Hilmer Kenty
* Wladimir Klitschko
* Michael Moorer
* Mike McCallum
* Milton McCrory
* Steve McCrory
* Gerald McClellan
* Lennox Lewis
* Jimmy Paul
* Jermain Taylor
* Duane Thomas
* James Toney
* Ole Klemetsen
* Miguel Cotto
1970- Wayne McCullough (born Wayne William McCullough in Belfast, Northern Ireland)
McCulough s a professional boxer. During his professional career, which spans back to 1993, he held the WBC world title in the Bantamweight category.
As an amateur, McCullough won a silver medal for Ireland at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and a gold medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, representing Northern Ireland.
The medal ceremony for his Commonwealth title was marked by an unusual incident. A technical problem with the public address system made it impossible to play the recording of the Northern Ireland anthem, Londonderry Air. The New Zealand official in charge of the sound, Bob Gibson, promptly jumped into the ring, took the microphone and sang the anthem unaccompanied, using the politically neutral lyrics to "Danny Boy", normally sung to the same tune.
McCullough also won a Bronze medal at the World Cup before moving from Northern Ireland to Las Vegas to begin his professional career.
Amateur record 319–11 Over 100 KO's
* 1988 represented Ireland as a Light Flyweight at Seoul Olympic Games. Results were:
o First Round bye
o Defeated Fred Mutuweta (Uganda) points
o Lost to Scotty Olson (Canada) points
* 1990 Gold Medalist at Flyweight at Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. Results were:
o Defeated B. Mwangata (Tanzania) points
o Defeated M. Maina (Kenya) points
o Defeated Tshabangu (Zimbabwe) points
* 1990 3rd place as a Flyweight at World Cup in Bombay, India. Results were:
o Defeated M. Pingle (India) points
o Defeated D.K. Park (Korea) points
o Lost to Serafim Todorov (Bulgaria) points
o Defeated Fred Mutuweta (Uganda) points
Had to fight for Bronze medal as there was only one awarded
* 1991 competed as a Bantamweight at World Championships in Sydney, Australia. Results were:
o Defeated Felipe Costa (Portugal) TKO 2
o Defeated Joseph Zabakly (Austria) points
o Lost to Enrique Carrion (Cuba) points
* 1992 won the Silver medal representing Ireland as a Bantamweight at the Barcelona Olympic Games. Results were:
o Defeated Fred Mutuweta (Uganda) points
o Defeated Ahmed Abbood (Iraq) points
o Defeated Mohammed Sabo (Nigeria) points
o Defeated Gwang-Sik Li (North Korea) points
o Lost to Joel Casamayor (Cuba) points
Within a year of moving to Las Vegas, he had won the North American Boxing Federation title. On 30 July 1995, less than 2½ years since turning professional, he won the WBC World Championship by beating the champion Yasuei Yakushiji in Nagoya, Japan.
McCullough successfully defended his title twice before vacating the belt and moving up in weight to challenge super bantamweight champion Daniel Zaragoza but lost via controversial split decision. McCullough unsuccessfully challenged champions Naseem Hamed in 1998, and Erik Morales in 1999. Breaking both of their KO streaks while taking them the distance, Morales stated that McCullough gave him one of the top three fights of his career.
In October 2000, McCullough was returning to his native Belfast for a homecoming fight. Two days before the fight was scheduled to take place, he was told that he had a cyst on his brain, he couldn’t fight again and that one more blow to the head could kill him. McCullough flew back to Las Vegas and was advised by the Nevada Commission to visit the neurosurgery department at UCLA for a more thorough investigation. Within a few weeks the doctor at UCLA, Neil Martin, called to say he had consulted with some of the top neurosurgeons in the USA and they had come to the conclusion that the cyst was not on his brain, but in a space between the brain and the skull – called the arachnoid mater – and that he saw no reason for him to give up his boxing career.
Nevertheless, the British Boxing Board of Control continued to deny him a license. He was relicensed in Nevada and fought again in January 2002. After a very public battle, the BBBC could no longer deny him a license and later that same year McCullough stepped back into a British ring.[4] Since then he has had mixed success, winning five fights but losing to Scott Harrison and Mexican world champion Óscar Larios on two occasions. The result of his first fight with Larios is widely disputed. On 17 August 2005 McCullough was honored by the WBC to become their first ever WBC Boxer's Ambassador of the World for Peace and Goodwill in Sports.
In September 2005, McCullough became a United States citizen. He is known for his dogged, relentless attacking style and has never been knocked down or stopped by a fighter in a professional bout. In November 2005, McCullough released his autobiography, Pocket Rocket: Don't Quit, in the UK and Ireland. He went on a publicity tour to promote the book, which reached Number 2 on the best sellers list.
In 2007, Wayne McCullough joined the Ultimate Fighting Championship organisation as a PR Associate and travels around the world helping to promote the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).
He currently trains fighters both in boxing and MMA and will continue to do so.
On 1 December 2007 McCullough had signed to fight Spainiard Kiko Martinez who has just defeated another Irishman, Bernard Dunne at the Point Depot, Dublin for the European super bantamweight title. The fight between McCullough and Martinez was due to take place at Belfast's Kings Hall on 1 December 2007.
McCullough had not fought for over two years and the Kings Hall venue was sold out for the fight. It was agreed that the non title fight would take place at 8st 12 lb mark. However, on the day before the fight there was uproar during the weigh-in and the fight was cancelled amid chaotic scenes.
McCullough had already contracted to fight at 2 lb over the 8st 10 lb championship weight and he weighed in at 8st 9 lb. However, Martinez failed to make the agreed weight and was 1.75 lb over the agreed weight.
Martinez was given a couple of hours to shed the excess weight, but did not return to weigh in again and the scales were closed by a BBBofC official. A furious McCullough stated "I couldn't believe it. He comes in over the weight and then after being asked to take it off he just sits there and does nothing. I just can't believe what has happened. I was ready fight and ready to win and he comes in that much over the weight.".
On 20 June 2008, McCullough fought Juan Ruiz in the Cayman Islands, his first fight in three years. He lost in six rounds, retiring on his stool. Despite being ahead on two of three judges' scorecards after six rounds, he told his corner he could not go on due to an injury he had sustained in training.
The Belfast boxer took the microphone and revealed this could be his swansong.
He said: "I think this could be my last fight and I want to thank you all for coming. I am disappointed with the way things went but I just felt I could not go on."
McCullough had not fought since losing a WBC super bantamweight title fight against Óscar Larios in Las Vegas in 2005.
McCullough tweeted on his Twitter page on April 30th 2010 that he would be participating in the next 'Prizefighter' tournament in Britain
McCullough issued a press release in March 2009 stating he plans to continue with his boxing career, proposing a fight with Bernard Dunne, the former WBA super-bantamweight champion
Passed Away On This Day
1982- Tommy Loughran (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1902 – July 7, 1982)
Loughran was the light heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
Loughran's effective use of coordinated foot work, sound defense and swift, accurate counter punching is now regarded as a precursor to the techniques practiced in modern boxing. Loughran fought many middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight champions in his career - including Gene Tunney, Jack Sharkey and Georges Carpentier. Loughran even achieved a Newspaper Decision over fistic phenom Harry Greb. Loughran was but 19 years old when he first met Greb.
As a light heavyweight, he defeated two future world heavyweight champions: Max Baer and James J. Braddock. Loughran finally fought Primo Carnera for the heavyweight title but lost a decision.
While Loughran is remembered among boxing's elite, his career was marred by his fragile hands and jaw.
He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He was the Ring Magazine's Fighter of the Year in 1929 and 1931.
He appeared as himself on the game show To Tell the Truth on February 12, 1957.
The fighters he's beaten aren't even household names in their own household.
"Never shall innocent blood be shed. Yet the blood of the wicked shall flow like a river. The three shall spread their blackened wings and be the vengeful striking hammer of god."
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia- Future World Boxing Hall of Fame (WBHF) inductee Dave Sands knocked out Tom Laming in the 2nd round of a scheduled 12-rounder. This was Sands' second win over Laming as he KOed him in the 7th round of their earlier encounter, also a scheduled 12-rounder.
Havana, Cuba- Exactly 7 years before his successful defense of the world welterweight title against Gil Turner (see above), future IBHOF and WBHF inductee Kid Gavilan won the Cuban lightweight title by knocking out defending champion Joe Pedroso in the 4th round of a bout scheduled for 12.
Long live this thread! This morning I really enjoyed rewatching Florante Condes "Little Pacquiao" vs Muhammad Rachman-Wins IBF Mini-Flyweight Title, and Floyd's uncle Roger getting KTFO vs Chavez Sr.
This morning I really enjoyed rewatching Florante Condes "Little Pacquiao" vs Muhammad Rachman-Wins IBF Mini-Flyweight Title, and Floyd's uncle Roger getting KTFO vs Chavez Sr.
