July 30th

straycat · Post by **straycat** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:05 am

1884- Jack Dempsey "The Nonpareil" KO 22 George Fulljames. Becomes the first recognized world middleweight champion. The first bout under the Marquis of Queensberry rules.

1917- Harry Greb ND 10 Jack Dillon, Pittsburgh.

1931- Frankie Genaro KO 6 Jackie Harmon, Waterbury, CT. Retains NBA flyweight title.

1972- Enrique Pinder W 15 Rafael Herrera, Panama City. Wins world bantamweight title.

1977- Carlos Monzon W 15 Rodrigo Valdez, Monte Carlo. Retains world middleweight title. In round two Monzon is knocked down for the first time in thirteen years. Monzon controls the last half of the fight to earn the unanimous nod of 144-141,147-144 and 145-143. Afterward, the 34 year-old Monzon would announce his retirement.
https://youtu.be/kWltFSBJVf8
https://uploadir.com/u/zqi31o57

1979- Pipino Cuevas W 15 Randy Shields, Chicago. Retains WBA welterweight title. Cuevas goes the distance for the 1st time in a title fight.
https://youtu.be/DpH_HupwGBE
https://uploadir.com/u/wayu0s64

1988- Julian Jackson KO 3 Buster Drayton, Atlantic City. Retains WBA super-welterweight title.
https://uploadir.com/u/5g3act2m

1988- Wilfredo Gomez TKO 6 Mario Gonzalez
https://youtu.be/L8ksnFSdx9U
https://uploadir.com/u/x38pqzei

1989- Julian Jackson KO 2 Terry Norris, Atlantic City. Retains WBA super-welterweight title.
https://youtu.be/eCHyVyFgX-8
https://uploadir.com/u/knpaqm9r

1992- Al Cole W 12 James Warring, Stanhope, NJ. Wins IBF cruiserweight title.
https://youtu.be/9sZ7w643JnY
https://uploadir.com/u/e9gwfo2r

1994- Alfred Kotey W 12 Rafael Del Valle, London.

1995- Wayne "The Pocket Rocket" McCullough W 12 Yasuei Yakushiji, Nagoya. Retains WBC bantamweight title.
https://youtu.be/ThRNzhEEXAI

2002- Miguel Cotto KO 3 Carlos Alberto Ramirez
https://uploadir.com/u/kgeo9uuf

2004- Danny Williams KO 4 Mike Tyson, Louisville, KY.
https://youtu.be/my5r0h7BXis
https://uploadir.com/u/enjb70hq

2006- Rudy Lopez KO 7 Takashi Koshimoto, Fukuoka, Japan. Wins WBC Featherweight Title. Koshimoto given a brutal beating and out on a stretcher.
https://youtu.be/ZLNnTdhu7zg
https://uploadir.com/u/0jaar7ss

2008- Daisuke Naito KO 10 Tomonobu Shimizu, Tokyo. Retains WBC Flyweight Title.
https://youtu.be/pO5Gk1I4qgU
https://uploadir.com/u/rb3sj0pn

2008- Takefumi Sakata W 12 Hiroyuki Hisataka, Tokyo. Retains WBA Flyweight Title.

2010- Danny Garcia TKO 9 Jorge Romero
https://uploadir.com/u/2ablkebs

Born On This Day

1977- Jerson Ravelo (born in San Cristobal, the Dominican Republic)
Ravelo represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the Men's 75 kg Division.
Jerson Ravelo currently resides in Newark, N.J. with his son Jerson Jr. While many fighters pressure their children, particularly their namesakes, into following their fistic footsteps, Ravelo doesn't want that for his son.
"I'm doing this for my son and my family. As of right now, he doesn't even show no interest in boxing, which is good."
Ravelo's favorite fighter is Roy Jones Jr. "The way he fights, the things that he's done are incredible" says Ravelo. "A lot of people don't give him credit. They talk about he never fought anybody, but like he said in his song, he just made them look like nobodies."
Ravelo was the 1998 National Golden Gloves Middleweight champion. Ravelo also represented the Dominican Republic as a Middleweight at the 2000 Sydney Olympic games, he was eliminated in the opening round by Paul Miller of Australia, on an 8-7 decision.
Upon turning professional, Ravelo signed a promotional deal with Lou Dibella's Dibella Entertainment. He made his debut as a professional on January 27, 2001 in Madison Square Garden in New York, where he defeated America's Miguel Gutierrez. He became the first 2000 Olympian to reach double digit wins as a pro. In 2004 Ravelo was upset by David Alfonso Lopez by TKO.
Ravelo says, "Before that fight I didn't want to fight anymore. I didn't have no confidence because that was prior to me getting the surgeries and that was when I was coming back. It helped me come back to get my confidence back up and come back to reality. Before that fight, I was walking on a cloud."
Numerous injuries to his back and right hand hampered his career, and he didn't see any action in the year 2005 as a result. In that time period, things soured with Jerson's promotional situation. The contract contained a clause stating that if Jerson was injured for over a year, Dibella Entertainment could terminate the contract. Ravelo was subsequentally released by Dibella.
"Once a fighter has back problems", says Ravelo, "he's always going to have back problems. I can go 6 months, a year without feeling my back at all. But I can wake up one day and for a week my back will be hurting me."
In 2006, Jerson signed a promotional contract with The Contender Group. "They care about their fighters," Ravelo said. "They're not trying to make a quick buck out of a fighter, they're looking long term." Returning from substantial layoffs, Ravelo reeled off three consecutive first round knockouts.
The next order of business was a showdown with then-undefeated Allan Green of Tulsa, Oklahoma on October 14, 2006. Jerson was stopped in the eighth round. In that fight, Ravelo suffered another injury to his right hand.
Ravelo rebounded in 2007 with a unanimous decision over England's Paul Buchannan, whom he knocked down in the third round. That fight was a part of The Contender's USA versus UK special.
Ravelo has gone through a who's who of trainers in his career, including Mark Breland, Tommy Brooks, Tommy Parks, Charles Murray, Anthony Ham, Bouie Fischer and Oscar Suarez. He is currently trained by Nettles Nasser, who also guides Henry Crawford and Omar Sheika.
Of Nasser, Ravelo says, "He's a good trainer. He teaches the right things. He tells you what to do. He motivates his fighters. I know he don't get a lot of credit because he's young. I think he's one of the better coaches out there."
Ravelo's current record stands at 18-2 (12 KO).

KSTAT124 · Post by **KSTAT124** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:36 pm

1994- Alfred Kotey won the WBO bantamweight title from previously unbeaten defending champion Rafael Del Valle with a well-earned, unanimous 12-round decision; Bethnal Green, London, England.

2004- Nelson Dieppa retained the WBO junior flyweight title with a strangely scored 12-round, majority decision over future IBF junior flyweight champion Ulises Solis; Louisville, Kentucky. One judge had the bout even, 114-114, while the other two each had Dieppa pitching a shutout, 120-108.

straycat · Post by **straycat** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:53 am

DBO · Post by **DBO** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:05 am

1995- Wayne "The Pocket Rocket" McCullough W 12 Yasuei Yakushiji, Nagoya. Retains WBC bantamweight title.

That was actually the bout he won the title in by SD.