1901- Peter Jackson (born in Christiansted, Danish West Indies, July 3, 1861 - July 13, 1901)
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".
1909- Ad Wolgast ND 10 Battling Nelson, Los Angeles.
1931- Tony Canzoneri W 10 Cecil Payne, Los Angeles. Retains world junior welterweight title.
1931- Midget Wolgast W 15 Ruby Bradley, Brooklyn. Retains New York world flyweight title.
1939- Billy Conn W 15 Melio Bettina, Pittsburgh. Wins world light heavyweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/38ov1gc3
1962- Emile Griffith W 15 Ralph Dupas, Las Vegas. Retains world welterweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/83gw5m8p
1963- Sugar Ramos W 15 Rafiu King, Mexico City. Retains world featherweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/xqr53ag1
1966- Emile Griffith W 15 Joey Archer, NYC. Retains world middleweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/pu7iliyr
1980- Matthew Saad Muhammad KO 14 Yaqui Lopez, McAfee, NJ. Retains WBC light heavyweight title. One of the greatest fights of all-time.
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1990- "Terrible" Terry Norris W 12 Rene Jacquot, Annecy, France. Retains WBC super welterweight title.
1991- Gianfranco Rosi W 12 Glenn Wolfe, Avezzano, Italy. Retains IBF junior middleweight title.
1996- Ratanapol Sor Vorapin KO 3 Joseph Orgaleza, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Retains IBF mini-flyweight title.
2001- Mickey Ward W 10 Emanuel Augustus, Hampton Beach Casino, Hampton Beach, NH. Ring Magazine’s fight of the year! Referee: Steve Smoger | Judge: Mike Nolan 98-90 | Judge: Jim Fagin 96-91 | Judge: John Stevens 96-94. The fight was much closer than the scores.
2007- Cristian Mijares KO 10 Teppei Kikui, Gomez Palacio, Mexico. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.
Born On This Day1931- Tony Canzoneri W 10 Cecil Payne, Los Angeles. Retains world junior welterweight title.
1931- Midget Wolgast W 15 Ruby Bradley, Brooklyn. Retains New York world flyweight title.
1939- Billy Conn W 15 Melio Bettina, Pittsburgh. Wins world light heavyweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/38ov1gc3
1962- Emile Griffith W 15 Ralph Dupas, Las Vegas. Retains world welterweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/83gw5m8p
1963- Sugar Ramos W 15 Rafiu King, Mexico City. Retains world featherweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/xqr53ag1
1966- Emile Griffith W 15 Joey Archer, NYC. Retains world middleweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/pu7iliyr
1980- Matthew Saad Muhammad KO 14 Yaqui Lopez, McAfee, NJ. Retains WBC light heavyweight title. One of the greatest fights of all-time.
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1990- "Terrible" Terry Norris W 12 Rene Jacquot, Annecy, France. Retains WBC super welterweight title.
1991- Gianfranco Rosi W 12 Glenn Wolfe, Avezzano, Italy. Retains IBF junior middleweight title.
1996- Ratanapol Sor Vorapin KO 3 Joseph Orgaleza, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Retains IBF mini-flyweight title.
2001- Mickey Ward W 10 Emanuel Augustus, Hampton Beach Casino, Hampton Beach, NH. Ring Magazine’s fight of the year! Referee: Steve Smoger | Judge: Mike Nolan 98-90 | Judge: Jim Fagin 96-91 | Judge: John Stevens 96-94. The fight was much closer than the scores.
2007- Cristian Mijares KO 10 Teppei Kikui, Gomez Palacio, Mexico. Retains WBC Super Flyweight Title.
1901- Mickey Walker (born Edward Patrick Walker in Elizabeth, NJ)
Walker was a multi-faceted boxer. He was also an avid golfer and a renowned artist.
He boxed professionally for the first time on February 10, 1919, fighting Dominic Orsini to a four round no-decision in his hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Walker did not venture from Elizabeth until his eighteenth bout, he went to Newark. On April 29, 1919, he was defeated by knockout in round one by Phil Delmontt, suffering his first defeat.
In 1920, he boxed twelve times, winning two and participating in ten no-decisions. Once again, all his bouts were held in New Jersey, which was, at the time, one of the areas where scoring systems had not been installed in boxing, therefore, each fight that lasted the scheduled distance was automatically declared a no-decision, regardless of who the better boxer had been.
He boxed sixteen times in 1921, winning six, losing one and having nine no-decisions. By then, Rhode Island had already become one of the areas where scoring in fights had been installed to allow fighters to get decision victories, and this attracted Walker twice to the area. He lost on a disqualification to Joe Stenafik his first time there, but earned his first decision win, in twelve rounds, against Kid Green, the second time around. He also held world champion boxer Jack Britton to a no-decision back in his home state of New Jersey, and beat Nate Siegal in Boston.
In 1922 Walker went 3-4-4 before getting a world title shot. He lost to Jock Malone during that span. However, on November 1 of that year, he found himself a world title challenger against Britton, who was the world's Welterweight champion. Walker outpointed Britton over fifteen rounds to become world champion.
He had thirteen fights in 1923, winning 11, having one no decision and one no contest. He defended the title twice, against Pete Latzo and Jimmy Jones. Nine bouts followed in 1924, Walker winning six and having three no decisions. He defeated Lew Tendler and Bobby Barrett in defense of his world title, and had two of his three no decisions that year against Jock Malone.
After winning two fights to start 1925, he went up in division to challenge world Middleweight champion Harry Greb on July 2 but he failed to win the Middleweight crown at that time, losing a fifteen round decision to the 160 pound division champion. He went back to the Welterweight division, defending his title against Dave Shade, retaining it by decision. He won three bouts, lost one and had three no decisions that year.
On May 20, 1926, he lost the world Welterweight title in a rematch with Pete Latzo. It seemed Walker, now in his 20s, had physically matured out the Welterweight division; though many might also point to his extra-curriculars. Whatever the reasons, Walker then began concentrating on winning the world Middleweight championship. On November 22, he finally was able to beat Jock Malone, and on December 3, he conquered the world's Middleweight title with a controversial ten-round decision over world champion Tiger Flowers. He kept that title for five years, although he only defended it three times during that span. He beat Mike McTigue and former world champion Paul Berlenbach.
On March 28, 1929, he tried to become a member of the exclusive group of boxers who have been world champions in three different weight divisions, however, he failed in his attempt when he was defeated in a close ten round decision to world Light Heavyweight champion Tommy Loughran. On June 19, 1931, Walker decided to give away his world Middleweight title to take a leap into the Heavyweight division.
His debut as a Heavyweight on July 22, against former world Heavyweight champion Jack Sharkey, ended with a fifteen round draw (tie). In 1932, he went 5-1, beating such fighters as King Levinsky and Paulino Uzcudun before facing former world Heavyweight champion Max Schmeling, who knocked Walker out in round eight.
He went down in weight again, to the Light Heavyweight division, in 1933, when he lost a fifteen round decision to Maxie Rosenbloom for the world title. The next year, Walker rematched Rosenbloom and was awarded a decision win. Unfortunately for Walker, Rosenbloom, though still champion, had taken Walker on in a non-title fight. Undaunted, Walker kept campaigning in that division until 1935, when he retired after losing to Eric Seelig by a seven round technical decision.
Walker opened a restaurant after retirement and his restaurant became a popular dining place in New York City. He became an accomplished painting artist, many of his works being exhibited at New York and London art galleries. During his boxing career, he found golf to be a suitable distraction to his training regimen, and he often dragged his manager Doc Kearns, and his kids to golf courses to play golf.
Walker was found by police in 1974 lying on a street in New York and taken to a hospital, where he was admitted with doctors initially thinking he was just a drunken man picked up at the streets. But further testing revealed that Walker was suffering from Parkinson's disease; he died seven years later.
Walker had a record of 93 wins, 14 losses, 4 draws, 46 no decisions and 1 no contest in 163 professional bouts, his 60 knockout wins making him a member of the exclusive group of boxers who have won 50 or more bouts by knockout.
He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990, as an original member of that institution.
1956- Michael Spinks (born in St. Louis, Missouri)
Nicknamed Jinx, which spawned the nickname of his right hand: The Spinks Jinx, he is the brother of former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks, and uncle of Cory Spinks, a former welterweight champion and current IBF Light middleweight champion.
After compiling a 93-7 record as an amateur, Spinks won the middleweight gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. As a professional, he was undefeated in his first 31 fights, beating such opponents as Dwight Muhammad Qawi, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Marvin Johnson and Eddie Davis en route to becoming undisputed world light-heavyweight champion.
Following ten successful title defences, Spinks moved up to heavyweight and as underdog beat the long-reigning IBF heavyweight champion Larry Holmes; in doing so, Spinks became the first reigning light-heavyweight champion to win the heavyweight title. In his final fight, Spinks was knocked out by Mike Tyson, the only defeat of his professional career.
Spinks is an inductee of the International Boxing Hall of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame.
Spinks then turned professional with a win over Eddie Benson, knocked out in one round on April 17 of 1977 in Las Vegas. Spinks began with that, a 31 fight winning streak that would almost extend to the end of his career. After four more wins, Spinks finished '77 with the first fight that began a gradual ascent in opposition quality: an eight round decision over Gary Summerhays, a popular young boxer of the time.
In 1978, Spinks won two fights, including an eight round decision over former world Middleweight title challenger Tom Bethea, in the same undercard where his brother Leon dethroned Ali as world Heavyweight champion in Las Vegas.
1979 saw Spinks get less than three minutes of boxing action inside a ring, with his only fight ending in a first round knockout of Marc Hans, but in 1980, Spinks took his ascent towards the top to another level, when he beat future world Super Middleweight champion Murray Sutherland, David Conteh and fringe contenders Ramon Ronquillo and Alvaro Yaqui Lopez (who challenged for a world title four times). Of his five wins that year, three came by knockout, Sutherland and Johnny Wilburn being the only ones who lasted the distance.
By 1981, Spinks was already a top ranked contender, and after beating former and future world Light Heavyweight champion Marvin Johnson by a knockout in four rounds, the WBA made Spinks their number one challenger, and so, on July 18 of that year, he met WBA's Light Heavyweight champion Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, once again in Las Vegas. Spinks dropped Mustafa Muhammad in round 12 and went on to become world Light Heavyweight champion with a 15 round decision win. He defended the title once in '81, beating Vonzell Johnson by a knockout in seven.
After four successful defenses in 1982, including a knockout win in eight in a rematch with Sutherland, Spinks had become a superstar, at least in the boxing world. He began appearing on the covers of boxing magazines and boxing fans started clamoring for a unification fight with WBC world champion Dwight Muhammad Qawi. Tragedy struck his life, however, when in January 1983, his 24-year old wife died in a car crash, leaving Spinks the single parent of his two-year-old daughter.
Meanwhile, the fight all the fans wanted was being asked for by boxing critics and magazine editors, too. On March 18, two months after his wife's death, Spinks and Qawi met in a boxing ring. The fight was broadcast by HBO World Championship Boxing, and, according to the book The Ring: Boxing the 20th Century, Spinks had a very tough moment to overcome before it even started: His daughter asked him, while he was in his dressing room, if her mother would come to watch the fight. Spinks almost broke into tears, but soon had to recover and get into the ring, where he and Qawi fought to unify the crown. Spinks was nearly floored in round eight, but he stayed upright and won a 15 round unanimous decision to become the undisputed world Light Heavyweight champion. He defended the title one more time before the end of the year, against Oscar Rivadeneira in Alaska, whom he beat by a ten round knockout.
Spinks fought only once in 1984, retaining his crown with a twelve-round majority decision over Eddie Davis. He and Qawi were only a couple of weeks away from fighting a rematch in September of that year, but that fight got called off when Qawi was injured during training.
In 1985, Spinks beat David Sears and Jim McDonald, both by knockout, in title defenses, before challenging Larry Holmes for the world's Heavyweight championship in a fight recognized by the IBF. Holmes was trying to tie Rocky Marciano's record of 49-0 as the Heavyweight champion, but it was Spinks who made history that night, winning a fifteen-round unanimous decision and becoming the first world Light Heavyweight champion ever to win the world Heavyweight title. With this, Michael and Leon had also become the first pair of brothers ever to be world Heavyweight champions.
In 1986, Spinks and Holmes fought a rematch, and had nearly the same result, this time Spinks winning by a 15 round split decision. After that, he retained the world Heavyweight championship once again, by a knockout in four against Steffen Tangstad. In 1987 he was stripped of the crown by the IBF for refusing to fight their mandatory challenger, Tony Tucker, and accepting a higher offer to fight Gerry Cooney in a non title bout instead. Spinks knocked out Cooney in five rounds, and after Mike Tyson had unified the Heavyweight belts, fans started clamoring for a fight between them as many still recognized Spinks as the legitimate champion. The fight took place in June 1988, with Tyson knocking Spinks down twice on his way to a first round knockout. It would be Spinks' first defeat in the professional ring, as well as his last as he retired following the fight.
Spinks had a record of 31 wins, 1 loss and 21 wins by knockout as a professional.
In addition to his success as a heavyweight, Spinks is generally considered one of the greatest light heavyweight champions and fighters in the history of the weight class.
On Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time, Spinks was ranked 42nd.
On Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years, released in 2002, Spinks ranked 41st.
Amateur Highlights
* Compiled a reported amateur record of 93-7 (35 KO)
* Won the 1974 Light Middleweight (156 lb.) National Golden Gloves Championship.
* Won the 1976 Middleweight (165 lb.) National Golden Gloves Championship in Miami, Florida.
* Won the Middlewight Gold Medal for the United States at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada. Results were:
o Defeated Jean-Marie Emebe (Cameroon) forfeit
o Defeated Ryszard Pasiewicz (Poland) points
o Defeated Alec Năstac (Romania) forfeit
o Defeated Rufat Riskiyev (Soviet Union) TKO 3
* Made it to the finals of the 1975 National AAU, losing to Tom Sullivan From Mt Scott Community Center in Portland, Oregon.
Brother of Heavyweight champion Leon Spinks and uncle of Welterweight champion Cory Spinks.
His victory over Larry Holmes on September 2, 1985 was named Ring Magazine Upset of the Year.
1966- Julio Cesar Vasquez (born in Santa Fe, Argentina)
Vasquez is a professional boxer best known to have held a WBA junior middleweight title.
Vasquez, known as "El Zurdo" which means lefty as he is a southpaw, turned pro in 1986 and captured the Vacant WBA Light Middleweight Title by KO'ing little-known Hitoshi Kamiyama in 1992. He successfully defended the title ten times beating Javier Castillejo,Aaron "superman" Davis, undefeated Winky Wright and Tony Marshal before losing the belt to legendary Pernell Whitaker in 1995 who had only one fight in this weightclass. That same year he recaptured the WBA Light Middleweight Title by beating fellow southpaw Carl Daniels whom he knocked out with a single straight left after trailing badly on points. The devastating 11th round knockout of Daniels was named Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year for 1995. He lost the belt in his next fight to Laurent Boudouani by KO and never contended again.
Although he never had another major title shot, Vasquez continues to fight in his native Argentina, fighting as recently as 2007 in the super middleweight (168lb) division.
1968- Lou Del Valle (born in Long Island, New York)
Known as "Honey Boy", Del Valle turned pro in 1992 and won his first 22 bouts, setting up a shot at long-time WBA Light Heavyweight Title holder Virgil Hill in 1996. Hill won a close unanimous decision. In 1997 he took on Eddy Smulders for the Vacant WBA Light Heavyweight Title and won via 8th round TKO. He lost the belt in his next fight, a clear decision loss to Roy Jones Jr, but became the first fighter ever to knock Jones down.
In 2001 he took on Bruno Girard for Vacant WBA Light Heavyweight Title, but came up short of the title in a draw. In 2002 he rematched Girard for the same belt, but lost a split decision.
De Leon Tinsley (9-3-1), on July 18, 2008 won a unanimous decision over former WBA light-heavyweight champion Lou Del Valle (36-6-1), 40, in the 8-round bout at Mahi Temple Auditorium. Judges Stu Winston and Fred Flutie scored the bout for Tinsley as did Bill Ray (77-75). Tinsley weighed 189 pounds while Del Valle came in at 198
1982- Chad Dawson (born in Hartsville, South Carolina)
Dawson is the current IBO light heavyweight champion. Dawson was born to Wanda and Rick Dawson, a former boxer who compiled a (1-4-1) record. He has 4 brothers and 2 sisters. In search of work, Rick Dawson moved the family to New Haven, Connecticut in 1988. Dawson attended James Hillhouse High School from 1996 to 2000. Dawson is currently rated by The Ring Magazine as the number six pound-for-pound boxer in the world.
Dawson, a southpaw, made his professional debut after finishing 58-13 as an amateur and winning an under 19 national championship, then finishing for the silver in the world championships on August 18, 2001. He started at middleweight, moving up to super middleweight where he earned victories over notable opponents such as Ian Gardner and Carl Daniels.
Dawson's career was temporarily derailed when he failed a post-fight drug test in 2004 for marijuana. He was suspended from fighting for 6 months. Dawson indicated that this proved to be a motivating factor in his rise as a light heavyweight. Because of this, Dawson's streak of 14 consecutive wins ended when a March 27, 2004 bout against Aundalen Sloan resulted in a no-contest.
On June 2, 2006, in his bout with former title challenger and fellow southpaw Eric Harding (23-3-1), Dawson scored a unanimous decision victory, becoming the new NABF light heavyweight title holder. After suffering a flash knockdown in the opening seconds of the first round, Dawson dominated the fight and came away with judges scores of 117-110, 116-111, and 117-110.
At age 24, Chad Dawson won the WBC light heavyweight title against undefeated Pole Tomasz Adamek on February 3, 2007. The judges gave Chad Dawson a unanimous decision victory, with scores of 116-110, 117-109, and 118-108.
In June 2007, Dawson defended the WBC belt for the first time, in a fight with Jesus Ruiz (19-5-0), winning by technical knockout in round six. The fight was broadcast on Showtime as part of a card that featured former light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver. On September 29, 2007, Dawson defeated Epifanio Mendoza by fourth round TKO in his second title defense. In April 2008 as his third title defense, Dawson retained the belt by a controversial unanimous decision victory against challenger Glen Johnson. The three judges each had the fight scored 116-112 in favor of the champion Dawson.[7] Again aired on Showtime, for Dawson the card marked the second occasion for which he and Tarver fought in separate bouts on the same card, with Tarver winning each featured bout.
Dawson, who is married and has two sons, still lives and trains in New Haven, Connecticut. He was formerly trained by "Iceman" John Scully, Dan Birmingham and Floyd Mayweather Sr., and is now employing the services of Eddie Mustafa Muhammad.
On October 11, 2008, at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, Dawson fought IBF and IBO Light Heavyweight Champion Antonio Tarver. Dawson, who controlled the pace and landed most of the significant punches for a majority of the fight, was more active in methodically wearing out his opponent. Tarver landed the occasional punch, but Dawson was in control for most of the fight. With 2:11 left in the final round, Dawson scored a knockdown against Tarver, the only knockdown in the fight. Dawson won the fight by unanimous decision with scores of 117–110 from two judges and 118–109 from the third judge.[10] Dawson earned $800,000 for the fight and Tarver earned $1 million.
On November 9, the day after Joe Calzaghe's win over Roy Jones Jr, Dawson issued a press release challenging Calzaghe and offering to fight him on his home turf in Wales. Dawson stated "I'm ready to give Joe the opportunity to draw the curtain on his great career in front of his family and friends and 70,000 fans," and "It's the best fight in the light heavyweight division between two undefeated champions." Calzaghe was to retire weeks later, as had been expected prior to the Jones Jr bout. Dawson himself was complimentary about the departing Welsh champion stating "I applaud Joe's decision. It's obvious he and his family gave it a lot of thought. Timing is everything, and to leave center stage at his peak is rare and certainly comparable to the retirements of Rocky Marciano and Jim Brown.".
On May 27, 2009, Dawson vacated the IBF light heavyweight title to negotiate a rematch with Glen Johnson.
On 7 November 2009 Dawson once again outpointed Glen Johnson. This time was more convincing but the judges scored it 117-111, 115-113 and 115-113 all for Dawson.
The next step in Chad's career is a shot at the WBC title against Jean Pascal on August 14, 2010 in Montreal and will be for The Ring Light Heavyweight Title.
