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1905- Jimmy Britt W 20 Kid Sullivan, San Francisco. Retains world lightweight title.

1927- Jack Dempsey KO 7 Jack Sharkey, NYC. When asked why he struck Sharkey (with the knockout blow) while Sharkey was complaining to the referee, Dempsey replied, “What was I supposed to do, write him a letter?”

1930- Tony Canzoneri W 10 Benny Bass, Philadelphia.

1936- Petey Sarron W 15 Baby Manuel, Dallas. Retains world featherweight title.

1941- Sugar Ray Robinson W 10 Sammy Angott, Philadelphia. Non-title fight. Robinson, a pro for only nine months easily defeats the reigning NBA lightweight champion.

1949- Ike Williams KO 4 Enrique Bolanos, Los Angeles. Retains world lightweight title.

1979- Eusebio Pedroza KO 12 Ruben Olivares, Houston. Retains WBA featherweight title.

1982- Salvador Sanchez KO 15 Azumah Nelson, NYC. Retains WBC featherweight title. Sanchez’ final defense before his untimely death on 8/12/1982.

1985- Ubaldo Sacco KO 9 Gene Hatcher, Campione d’Italia, Italy. Wins WBA super lightweight title.

1989- Mike Tyson KO 1 Carl Williams, Atlantic City. Retains world heavyweight title. 93-seconds is all Iron Mike needed to finish off Williams.

1990- Gianfranco Rosi W 12 Darrin Van Horn, Marino, Italy. Wins IBF junior middleweight title.

2000- Francisco Javier Castillejo W 12 Tony Marshall, Madrid, Spain. Retains WBC Super Welterweight Title.

2001- Sugar Shane Mosley KO 3 Adrian Stone, Las Vegas. Retains WBC Welterweight Title.

2007- Bernard Hopkins W 12 Winky Wright, Las Vegas. Retains Ring Magazine's World Light Heavyweight Title.

2007- Gavin Rees W 12 Souleymane M’baye, Cardiff, Wales. Wins WBA Super Lightweight Title.

2007- Jorge Linares KO 10 Oscar Larios, Las Vegas. Wins vacant WBC Featherweight Title.

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1931- Gene Fullmer (born in West Jordan, Utah)
Fullmer was raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). He began his professional career in 1951 and won his first 29 fights, 19 by knockout.
Fullmer won the world middleweight championship on January 2, 1957 when he upset the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson by winning a 15-round decision. On May 1, 1957 they fought a rematch. The fight began as expected, with Fullmer using his strength and awkwardness to bull into Robinson and force him onto his heels. In the fifth round Robinson, while backing up, lashed out with what has been called the perfect left hook. It caught Fullmer flush on the chin and knocked him out.
In 1959, the National Boxing Association withdrew its recognition of Robinson as middleweight champion. Fullmer and fellow former middleweight champion Carmen Basilio fought for the vacant NBA title on August 28, 1959, and Fullmer won the crown when he TKOed Basilio in the 14th round. Meanwhile, Robinson was to lose his version of the middleweight championship to Paul Pender.
Fullmer and Pender never met to settle their claims to the middleweight title, and Pender eventually retired. Meanwhile, Fullmer fought and turned back the challenges of many top contenders, such as Basilio, Spider Webb, Florentino Fernández, and welterweight champion Benny "Kid" Paret. He narrowly escaped being dethroned when he was held to 15-round draws by Robinson and future titleholder Joey Giardello. In their final meeting, a title bout in 1961, Fullmer beat Robinson by unanimous decision.
Fullmer finally lost the middleweight title to Dick Tiger on October 23, 1962 in a unanimous decision. They fought a rematch on February 23, 1963, which resulted in a draw. Fullmer's attempts to regain the middleweight crown finally ended when he was TKOed in seven rounds by Tiger on August 10, 1963.
Fullmer's final record included 55 wins (24 by KO), 6 losses, and 3 draws.
Fullmer appeared in a cameo role in the 1968 film The Devil's Brigade as a Montana bartender.
Fullmer had two brothers who boxed: Don Fullmer, who twice challenged for the World Middleweight Title, and Jay Fullmer, who boxed as a lightweight.

1964- Steve Collins (born Stephen Collins in Cabra, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
The brother of Roddy Collins and a former professional boxer who fought under the nickname "the Celtic Warrior" and became the WBO World middleweight and super middleweight champion.
Collins is linked with an era when there was a great rivalry between Irish and British boxers Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn.
Collins began his professional career as a lower level fighter in America and lost three World title fights on points. It was not until Collins reached his 30's that he fulfilled his potential, becoming the WBO middleweight champion and later the WBO super middleweight champion.
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Collins won 26 Irish titles at middleweight, light-heavyweight and cruiserweight as an amateur before turning professional in Massachusetts, U.S. in 1986. His debut fight was against Julio Mercado on the undercard of a bill that featured his future trainer Freddie Roach and the future Fight of the Year winner Micky Ward. Collin's beat Mercado by way of knockout in the third round.
In Boston, Massachusetts in 1988, he defeated Sam Storey to win the Irish middleweight title, then defeated world #5, Kevin Watts, and won 16 successive fights before Mike McCallum outpointed him over 12 rounds in the WBA world middleweight title fight in Boston in 1990.
In 1992, he lost at the same weight to Reggie Johnson and to Sumbu Kalumbay in the EBU decider, before beating Gerhard Botes of South Africa to win the WBC Penta Continental title in 1993.
Collins took on Eubank in confident style with the first fight being won by Collins which Eubank said Collins played the mind game.The second was a thriller with Collins coming in looking to take the head off of Eubank.He tried so hard to he nearly fell out of the ring,Most of the rounds were owned by Collins but the last three rounds Eubank came stroming back doing the same as Collins in the first few rounds.But Collins held him off winning by a well deserved spilt decision.Collins was known as a true World Champion after beating Chris Eubank.
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Collins then based himself in England where he joined Barry Hearn's Matchroom Boxing. Alongside him was Paul "Silky" Jones, his sparring partner and good friend who later went on to become WBO champion but in the light middle weight division. Steve was trained by Freddie King in the Romford training camp.
In 1994 he defeated Chris Pyatt to secure the WBO middleweight belt. The following year he relinquished this title without a defence, moving up to super-middleweight and defeating the previously unbeaten Chris Eubank in Millstreet, Cork, Ireland to win the WBO title.
He defended this title successfully seven times (including a second meeting with Eubank and two fights against Nigel Benn).
Always one for a bit of a laugh, Collins said to The Sun newspaper in the buildup to the first Benn fight that he had been approached by ReadyMix concrete as they were interested in sponsoring his chin.
In the Craig Cummings fight in 1997, at Glasgow's Kelvin Hall, Collins was knocked down in the first 15 seconds of the fight (the third knock down in his professional career). Collins climbed off the floor to insist it was a slip but with a cheeky grin at Cummings took the standing eight count. A total demolition of Cummings ensued and in the third round the referee stopped the fight with a very relieved Cummings leaning back on the ropes looking towards the sky. This turned out to be Collins' last professional appearance as he announced his retirement shortly after the fight.
Collins had said some years before that before retirement he would like to fight at Celtic's home ground. However, Collins was billed to fight Joe Calzaghe and then at a late stage withdrew because of injury, had his title stripped, and then retired. Chris Eubank stepped in to take Steve's place in fighting Calzaghe, but for the then vacant WBO title.
Collins reportedly stated in the press that he had no motivation left as he had spent the best part of his career chasing Roy Jones Jr. for a unification fight that had been promised to him many times. A fight with Calzaghe would do nothing to satisfy the desire he had for fighting Jones. He then added he wanted to retire on a high note with a good pay day, "Joe is a good up-and-coming kid, but he wouldn't fill a parish church".
In 1999, he announced his decision to come out of retirement in order to fight Roy Jones Jr. Jones is said to have offered in excess of £3 million for the fight. Collins is said to have been suspicious regarding the money that Jones was offering and said to the papers that "for £3 million I would fight Mike Tyson"; this only spurred the spin doctors to assume it was a challenge at Iron Mike.
Controversy surrounded the fight as it was rumoured that Collins would have to fight Calzaghe first before a showdown with Jones. Collins had accepted this and started to prepare to fight Calzaghe. In his preparation training for the fight that was never to be, Collins collapsed during sparring. When doctors told him that blows to the head could result in his death, he retired for a second time.
He is reported to have stated in Boxing World that he has spent so long chasing Roy Jones Jr that money was not an important factor any more and that he would "fight him in a phone box in front of two men and a dog".
Collins retired with his then wife and children to the town of Bangor, County Down, with a record of: W 36 (21 KOs) – L 3.
Steve has not entirely faded from the spotlight since his retirement. In 1998 he appeared in the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (directed by Guy Ritchie) as a boxing gym bouncer.
In 1999, he made a cameo appearance in U2's video for "Sweetest Thing."
Collins featured in the British TV reality show Commando VIP that aired on Five. It put six celebrities through tough military-style challenges after being trained by three real commandos. He appeared alongside fellow ex-boxer Nigel Benn.
He now lives in St Albans, England.
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1991- John David Jackson retained the WBO junior middleweight title with a 12-round, unanimous decision over Tyrone Trice, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

2001- Harry Simon W UD 12 former WBC middleweight champion Hacine Cherifi, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Wins vacant WBO interim middleweight title and vacates WBO junior middleweight title. (In his next bourt, Simon would dethrone WBO middleweight champ Armand Krajnc.)

2001- On the same card as Simon-Cherifi, Daniel Santos retains the WBO welterweight title via a No Contest. Challenger Antonio Margarito was cut by an accidental headbutt and the bout was stopped at 2:11 of the first round.

2001- Johnny Nelson UD 12 former WBC cruiserweight champion Marcelo Fabian Dominguez, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Retains WBO junior heavyweight (cruiserweight) title.

2007- Bernard Hopkins W UD 12 Ronald "Winky" Wright, Las Vegas, Nevada. Retains Ring Magazine world light heavyweight title; bout fought with a contractually agreed upon weight limit of 170 pounds.

2007- Michael Katsidis W UD 12 Czar Amonsot, Las Vegas. Retains WBO interim lightweight title.

2007- Enzo Maccarinelli W UD 12 former WBC cruiserweight champion Wayne Braithwaite, Cardiff, Wales. Retains WBO junior heavyweight (cruiserweight) title.

2007- Alex Arthur W TKO 10 Koba Gogoladze, Cardiff. Wins vacant WBO interim junior lightweight title (after one successful defense, Arthur was upgraded to full champion on May 15, 2008 after his successor, Joan Guzman, vacates the championship to campaign as a lightweight).
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Did Amonsot fully recover from that fight?
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straycat wrote:KSTAT
Did Amonsot fully recover from that fight?
Yes. It took a while before he fully recovered but he was medically cleared to return to boxing in the latter part of 2008. He fought three times last year and won all three bouts.
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straycat wrote:KSTAT
Did Amonsot fully recover from that fight?
Yes. It took a while before he fully recovered but he was medically cleared to return to boxing in the latter part of 2008. He fought three times last year and won all three bouts.
Man Kat hit him with some solid shots all night. Was surprised he made it to the end of the fight. Wasn't surprised to hear he had to go to the hospital though.
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