July 29th

straycat · Post by **straycat** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:13 am

Passed Away On This Day

1927- Freddie Welsh (March 5, 1886 - July 29, 1927)
Welsh boxing champion. Born in Pontypridd, Wales, and christened Frederick Hall Thomas, he was nicknamed the "Welsh Wizard" (an epithet shared by his contemporary, but in the political ring, David Lloyd George).
The son of a successful businessman, Freddie took up boxing in Wales as his grandfather had been a renowned carnival fighter. He made several trip across the Atlantic to Canada and the United States, starting at the age of sixteen, and became so good at the sport that he decided to make a living out of it and he turned professional in 1905 in New York, the centre of professional boxing. He took the name Freddie Welsh to prevent his mother from learning of his new career, in honour of his nationality.
After several wins on the east coast of the United States, he returned to the British Isles on hearing that his mother was ill. He resumed his career in England and in 1909, Welsh was awarded the first Lonsdale Belt, in recognition of his winning the European lightweight boxing title. In 1914, he won the World Lightweight title on a points decision against Ritchie in London. He retained the title until May 1917, when he was knocked out at the Manhattan Athletic Club by Benny Leonard.
By this time Welsh had returned to America, where he continued his boxing career, generating large sums in no-decision bouts, becoming an American citizen and joining the US Army. During the First World War he served as a lieutenant and helped disabled veterans at the Walter Reed Hospital. He was discharged a Captain and returned to the ring in December, 1920.
He retired from boxing after a defeat by Archie Walker in 1922, but retired as a wealthy man. He bought a health farm and a gymnasium but fell on hard times and died penniless in New York.
Freddie Welsh was inducted into the 'Ring Boxing Hall of Fame' in 1960 and the 'International Boxing Hall of Fame' in 1997.
In 2008, Welsh was celebrated by the local council when it was decided to raise a blue plaque at his birthplace to commemorate his life.
During the time Welsh boxed, scoring resulted in a large number of no-decision fights. However, newspapers commonly reported a winner in the case of no-decision bouts. With that adjustment, Welsh's final record would be 110-25-15 with 32 KO's and 16 no-decisions.

1941- Freddy Cochrane W 15 Fritzie Zivic, Newark, NJ. Wins world welterweight title.

1957- Floyd Patterson KO 10 Tommy Jackson, NYC. Retains world heavyweight title.
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1971- Alfredo Marcano KO 10 Hiroshi Kobayashi, Aomori, Japan. Wins WBA super-featherweight title.
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1978- Netrnoi Vorasingh KO 5 Luis Estaba, Caracas. Retains WBC junior-flyweight title.
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1979- Yoko Gushiken W 15 Rafael Pedroza, Kitakyushu, Japan. Retains WBA junior-flyweight title.
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1981: Chul Ho Kim KO13 Willie Jensen, Pusan, S. Korea. Retains WBC super-flyweight title.
https://youtu.be/wd43DFv_pH4
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1982- Jiro Watanabe KO 10 Gustavo Ballas, Osaka. Retains WBA super-flyweight title.
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1988- Lloyd Honeyghan KO 5 Yung Kil Chung, Atlantic City. Retains WBC welterweight title.
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1988- Tomas Molinares KO 6 Marlon Starling, Atlantic City. Wins WBA welterweight title.
Molinares’ KO punch clearly lands after the bell ending the 6th round.
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1989- Khaosai Galaxy KO 10 Alberto Castro, Surin, Thailand. Retains WBA super-flyweight title.
https://youtu.be/GUgNGbcl_YA
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1990- Jeff Lampkin KO 8 Siza Makhathini, St. Petersburg, FL. Retains IBF cruiserweight title.

1990- Michael Carbajal KO 7 Muangchai Kittikasem, Phoenix. Wins IBF junior-flyweight title.
https://youtu.be/b93eTM9ha3s
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1994- James Toney KO 12 Charles Williams, Las Vegas. Retains IBF super-middleweight title.
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1994- Oscar De La Hoya KO 2 Jorge Paez, Las Vegas.
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1995- Danny Romero KO 6 Miguel Martinez, San Antonio. Retains IBF flyweight title.
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2000- Kostya Tszyu KO 6 Julio Cesar Chavez, Phoenix, AZ. Retains WBC Super Lightweight Title.
https://youtu.be/xU015BKX9Ho
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2002- Noel Arambulet W 12 Keitaro Hoshino, Yokohama, Japan. Regains WBA Strawweight Title.

2006- Gary St. Clair W 12 Cassius Baloyi, Johannesburg, South Africa. Wins IBF Super Featherweight Title.

Born On This Day

1870- George Dixon (born in Nova Scotia, Canada)
Dixon was the first black world boxing champion in any weight class, while also being the first ever Canadian-born boxing champion.
George was born in Africville, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Known as "Little Chocolate", he stood 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) tall and weighed only 87 pounds (39 kg) when he began his professional boxing career.
George Dixon claimed the world bantamweight title in 1888 and was officially considered the champion after knocking out Nunc Wallace of England in 18 rounds on June 27, 1890. The following year, on May 31, 1891, George beat Cal McCarthy in 22 rounds to win the featherweight title. In all, George won 78 fights, 30 by knockout, and lost 26, 4 by knockout.
He lost his title in a 15-round decision to Abe Attell on October 28, 1901.
George Dixon is interred in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
There is a recreation centre named after him in downtown Halifax.

1956- Teddy Atlas (born Theodore A. Atlas, Jr. in Staten Island, New York)
The son of a doctor, Atlas grew up in a middle class neighborhood in Staten Island. By his own admission, Atlas was a somewhat troubled, rebellious youth. He dropped out of school and was arrested several times, once serving time on Riker's Island. Atlas was involved in a street fight in which his face was severely slashed with a knife. The wound took four hundred stitches to close leaving him with a distinctive scar.
Teddy Atlas trained as an amateur boxer briefly with Hall of Fame trainer Cus D'Amato, but he was forced to retire after suffering a back injury. Atlas became an assistant to D'Amato, and he occasionally helped in the training of protege Mike Tyson. However, Atlas felt Cus D'Amato ought to discipline the young Tyson for his frequent bouts of petty thuggery and clashes with police. He finally took matters into his own hands after Tyson had allegedly tried to force himself on Atlas' 13 year old niece. Atlas confronted Tyson and put a gun to the 15 year-old's head, firing off a bullet. Atlas was 26 at the time, and D'Amato threw him out of his upstate camp.
Atlas enjoyed his greatest professional success as a head trainer with Michael Moorer. He also drew criticism for what some considered to be overly dramatic speeches in the ring corner, particularly during Moorer's Heavyweight title fight with Evander Holyfield, and some felt he did these antics to draw attention to himself rather than help his fighter, during one such speech Atlas blocked Moorer from sitting on his stool and remarked "do you want me to take over".
Atlas has denied this, stating that he did what he believed the fighter needed based on his understanding of the fighter. Moorer went on to defeat Holyfield by a majority decision. He also worked the corner of Featherweight world champion Barry McGuigan in one fight, trained Light-Heavyweight Donny Lalonde.
Lalonde went 8-0 with Atlas as his trainer, but they clashed in temperament and style. "He ran things like an army camp," Lalonde said. "I'm more of a free spirit." He and Atlas parted ways, and Lalonde hired Tommy Gallagher as his new trainer.
In 1997, he founded the Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation to honor the memory of his late father. The Foundation awards scholarships and grants to individuals and organizations.
Atlas published his autobiography, Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man, in 2006. The book covers many different periods of Atlas's life, and compares his position as trainer to a role as a father. Atlas confessed in the book that at one point he was so angry at Donny LaLonde he went to his home with a gun and a friend, to kill LaLonde for firing him as manager. Atlas states in his biography that he changed his mind at last minute.
On April 3, 2009 while covering the "Heavyweight Collision" card at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles California, featuring former WBC Heavyweight Champion Samuel Peter and IBF ranked Number 3 heavyweight "Fast" Eddie Chambers. Atlas revealed that he had been approached by Samuel Peter's team to take over as head trainer. Atlas went to Las Vegas where the Nigerian born Peter currently resides and spent a couple of days in the team, but did not take the job as he wanted Peter to relocate to New York where Atlas would have been able to train him full time.
In 2009, Atlas began training Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin as Povetkin prepared for an eventual title match against Wladimir Klitschko.
Atlas worked as boxing commentator for NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games in Sydney (2000), Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008).
Atlas currently serves as commentator on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights and Wednesday Night Fights. In 2001, he won the Sam Taub Award for excellence in boxing broadcasting journalism., and was a contributor on the legendary fight doctor's Ferdie Pacheco's 12 Greatest Rounds of Boxing on DVD, on which he stated that in the first Ali-Liston fight the famous "blind round" in which Ali could not see after being hit by Liston's gloves which had been smeared in a substance that temporarily blinded Ali. Atlas stated he would have refused to have cut Ali's gloves off and would have simply sent him out with the advice to just "run".
On January 25, 2008, Atlas was suspended by ESPN twice, once for threatening a crew member and once for one week, after confronting the network's boxing program director, Doug Loughrey, and accusing him of showing favoritism to certain promoters and matchmakers, who were abusing their ESPN connections by taking fighters from other promoters with promises of potential ESPN dates.
In May 2008, Atlas did not appear in ESPN's Friday Night Fights broadcasts after his wife Elaine required major surgery in their native New York. Although he was able to do Wednesday night's fight, he decided not to do Friday Fight Night. This was mentioned in the broadcast by ESPN anchorman and temporary commentator for the night Brian Kenny who also stated that Atlas had been at his wife's bedside even sleeping by her side.

KSTAT124 · Post by **KSTAT124** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:27 pm

1994- Oscar De La Hoya won the vacant WBO lightweight title by knocking out former IBF and WBO featherweight champion Jorge "Maromero" Paez at 0:39 of the 2nd round; Las Vegas, Nevada.

1995- Alex "Nene" Sanchez retained the WBO mini-flyweight title with a 12-round, unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Tomas Rivera; San Antonio, Texas.

2000- Daniel Santos retained the WBO welterweight title with a 4th round knockout over former WBO lightweight and junior welterweight champion Giovanni Parisi; Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy.

2006- Zsolt Erdei retained the lineal and WBO light heavyweight titles with a 12-round, unanimous decision over Thomas Ulrich; Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

straycat · Post by **straycat** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:49 am