December 3rd

KSTAT124 · Post by **KSTAT124** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:05 pm

December 3:

1912: Johnny Kilbane KO 9 Monte Attell, Cleveland. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1915: Sam Langford ND 10 Harry Wills, NYC. Wills easily won the newspaper decision, per the New York Times.

1923: Harry Greb W 10 William Bryan Downey, Pittsburgh. Retains World Middleweight Title. First card under McBride law that legalized 10-round decisions in Pennsylvania. Greb was conservative at the start, boxing well within the rules. But Downey provoked him in the third round and Harry reverted to his old style and gave Bryan a terrific thrashing. Greb won every round but the first, which went to Downey by a slight margin. Greb won the third and each of the last five rounds by big margins and battered Downey all over the ring, but never floored him. A hook sent Downey through the ropes in round 3. Greb was given the judges decision.

1926: Mickey (Toy Bulldog) Walker W 10 Tiger Flowers, Chicago. A very disputable and debatable decision. Referee Benny Yanger. Controversial decision greeted first by boos, then by cheers. Most fight critics believed Flowers had the best of this 10-round "bloody argument," although Walker came on strong in the closing stanzas, staggering Flowers twice, and once putting him on his back in the ninth, but Flowers made an acrobatic recovery to an upright position. Flowers opened a cut over Walker's left eye in the fourth stanza, hampering Walker for the remainder of the bout. Referee Yanger rendered the verdict. Attendance: 11,000. Gate revenue: $80,000 to $90,000. Flowers received half of the gate receipts, minus 10% to the state commission, while Walker got 10%. The State Commission immediately investigated Yanger's decision, which he tried to justify by saying Walker did all the punching. On Dec. 8 the Commission upheld the verdict. It soon joined New York and Pennsylvania in providing for decisions by two judges -- with the referee's help if the judges disagreed.

1928: Tod Morgan D 10 Santiago Zorilla, San Francisco. Retains World Junior Lightweight Title.

Frenchy Belanger W 12 Willie Davies, Toronto. Retains NBA Flyweight Title.

1958: Jose Luis Ramirez born.

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer

http://boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Human:8152

1960: Gene Fullmer D 15 Sugar Ray Robinson, Los Angeles. Retains NBA Middleweight Title.

1962: Carlos Ortiz KO 5 Teruo Kosaka, Tokyo. Retains World Lightweight Title.

1970: Billy Backus KO 4 Jose (Mantequilla) Napoles, Syracuse, NY. Wins World Welterweight Title. Backus upsets the 9-1 odds against him.

1981: (Smokin’) Joe Frazier D 10 Floyd (Jumbo) Cummings, Chicago. Frazier's first fight in 5-years.

1982: Thomas (Hit Man) Hearns W 15 Wilfred Benitez, New Orleans. Wins WBC Super Welterweight Title.

Wilfredo Gomez KO 14 Lupe Pintor, New Orleans. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

1986: Elly Pical KO 10 Dong Chun Lee, Djakarta. Retains IBF Junior Bantamweight Title.

1989: Daniel Zaragoza W 12 Chan Yong Park, Inchon, S. Korea. Retains WBC Super Bantamweight Title.

1992: Jeff Harding W 12 David Vedder, St-Jean-de-Luz, France. Retains WBC Light Heavyweight Title.

1994: Riddick (Big Daddy) Bowe W 12 Larry Donald, Las Vegas. Bowe slaps Donald with a cheap shot at the pre-fight press conference.

Anaclet Wamba W 12 Marcelo Dominguez, Salta, Argentina. Retains WBC Cruiserweight Title.

1996: Pichitnoi C. Siriwat KO 2 Keiji Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan. Wins WBA Light Flyweight Title.

1999: Zolani Petelo W 12 Juanito Rubillar, Peterborough, England. Retains IBF Mini-Flyweight Title.

2000: Steve Forbes KO 8 John Brown, Miami, FL. Wins vacant IBF Junior Lightweight Title.

2004: Martin Castillo W 12 Alexander Munoz, Laredo, TX. Wins WBA Super Flyweight Title

2005: Jermain Taylor W 12 Bernard Hopkins, Las Vegas. Retains World Middleweight Title. Referee: Jay Nady | Judge: Dave Moretti 115-113 | Judge: Chuck Giampa 115-113 | Judge: Patricia Jarman 115-113.

IBF junior featherweight champion Israel Vazquez TKO 3 Oscar Larios, Las Vegas. Wins Larios' WBC Super Bantamweight Title and the vacant Ring Magazine Junior Featherweight Title. (Note: the bout was originally scheduled to be a unification bout but the IBF withdrew its sanction. Larios had gained too much weight between the two weigh-ins in violation of IBF rules.)

Note: compiled by Richey S. Jones (ringsideboxingshow.com) with additional information posted by Ken Pollitt (the13thround.com)

KSTAT124 · Post by **KSTAT124** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:43 am

A YEAR AGO TODAY:

December 3, 2010-

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-

Renan St. Juste knocked out Sebastien Demers in the 2nd round to win the vacant WBO NABO super middleweight title.

David Lemieux stopped Purnell Gates in the 2nd round of a scheduled 10-round middleweight bout.

Prague, Czech Republic-

Lukas Konecny unanimously outpointed Hamlet Petrosyan over 12 rounds to retain the EBU European super welterweight title.

Heavy underdog Karama Nyilawila won an upset 12-round, unanimous decision over defending champion Kreshnik Qato to capture the World Boxing Federation middleweight title.

DBO · Post by **DBO** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:26 am

1999: Zolani Petelo W 12 Juanito Rubillar, Peterborough, England. Retains IBF Mini-Flyweight Title.

Petelo was a very talented fighter who doesn't get mentioned much. He's probably Ricardo Lopez' most underrated victory. Petelo is one of Nkosinathi Joyi's heroes.

KSTAT124 · Post by **KSTAT124** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:38 am

FIFTY YEARS AGO:

December 3, 1961-

Leon, Baja California, Mexico-

Vicente Saldivar stopped Jose Rodriguez in the 6th round of a scheduled 10-rounder.

Saldivar went on to hold the lineal, WBA, and WBC featherweight titles from September 26, 1964 until he retired in October of 1967.

He came back to win the lineal and WBC featherweight titles in 1970 but lost them in his first defense. After failing to regain them in 1973, he retired for good with a 37-3 record including 26 KOs.

He has been inducted into both the International Boxing Hall Of Fame and the World Boxing Hall of Fame.