FEBRUARY 13TH

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Today former Light heavyweight Champ Billy Conn beats world middle champ Tony Zale in a non-title fight over 12. This would be Conn's last fight for four years as he then entered the war. 1942
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Rocky Marciano upped his record to 39-0 and moved one step closer to a world title shot, by scoring a 7th round TKO over the veteran Lee Savold, on this day in 1952. The bout was held at Philadelphia's Convention Hall before 9,243 fans who came to see the newest young heavyweight lion. It was a messy affair, with Savold's blood reportedly splattering the ringside audience. Although some reports criticized Rocky for looking crude and being unable to score a clean knockout, win the bout he did, as Lee's corner stopped it before the 7th.


1983 - Wilford Scypion W12 Frank Fletcher at the Sand's Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, NJ
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Rocky Marciano upped his record to 39-0 and moved one step closer to a world title shot, by scoring a 7th round TKO over the veteran Lee Savold, on this day in 1952. The bout was held at Philadelphia's Convention Hall before 9,243 fans who came to see the newest young heavyweight lion. It was a messy affair, with Savold's blood reportedly splattering the ringside audience. Although some reports criticized Rocky for looking crude and being unable to score a clean knockout, win the bout he did, as Lee's corner stopped it before the 7th.


1983 - Wilford Scypion W12 Frank Fletcher at the Sand's Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, NJ
this must be one of teh most brutal boxing picture i saw!
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On this day in 1967, Johnny Tapia was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Tapia’s alias is “Mi Vida Loca,” which is Spanish for “my crazy life.” The nickname is fitting. His mother was murdered when he was eight years old, and he was forced to live with his grandparents and a dozen relatives in an Albuquerque ghetto. Drug use was so common in his family that he would help relatives shoot heroin by gripping their arms to help them locate a vein. As an adult, he became a drug addict himself, and has died four times, attempted suicide, and spent time in prison.

Through most of it, he managed to stay unbeaten and win titles. Tapia’s career got off to 21-0-1 start before he was sidetracked for three and a half years by drug addiction and a prison sentence.

He returned to the ring in 1994 and won the WBO Super Flyweight title with an 11th-round stoppage of Henry Martinez. He successfully defended the belt 12 times, his most notable win being a unanimous decision over IBF champion Danny Romero.

Tapia then won the WBA Bantamweight title with a majority decision over Nana Konadu in December of 1998. In his first defense, he lost his first bout, dropping a decision to Paulie Ayala. Tapia then won the WBO Bantamweight title with a decision over Jorge Eliecier Julio in January of 2000.

Following another loss to Ayala, Tapia again moved up another division and won the IBF Featherweight belt with a majority decision over Manuel Medina. He never defended the title.

In November of 2002, Tapia lost a lopsided decision to Marco Antonia Barrera and has not challenged for a belt since then. Although he has not fought since 2005, Tapia is scheduled to return to the ring on February 23rd of this year.
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1983- World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds

Exactly three months after a WBA Lightweight title bout ended with the death of boxer Duk Koo Kim in a fight against Ray Mancini , the World Boxing Council reduced the number of their championship fights to 12 rounds. The World Boxing Association even stripped a fighter of his championship in 1983 because the fight had been a 15-round bout, shortly after the rule was changed to 12 rounds. By 1988, to the displeasure of many boxing purists, all fights had been reduced to a maximum of 12 rounds only, partially for safety, and partially for television, as a 12-round bout could take one hour to broadcast, while a 15-round bout could requre 90 minutes to broadcast.
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1917- Fireman Jim Flynn KO 1 Jack Dempsey, Murray, UT. Heavyweight Bout.

1942- Billy Conn W 12 Tony Zale, NYC. Non-title light heavyweight bout. Zale's World Middleweight Title was not on the line.

1952- Rocky Marciano KO 6 Lee Savold, Philadelphia. Heavyweight Bout. The Rock’s 39th win without a loss.

1957- Joe "Old Bones" Brown KO 11 Wallace (Bud) Smith, Miami. Retains World Lightweight Title.

1977- Dong Kyun Yum W 15 Jose Cervantes, Seoul. Retains WBC World Super Bantamweight Title.

1982- Osvaldo Ocasio W 15 Robbie Williams, Johannesburg. Wins newly created WBA World Junior Heavyweight (Cruiserweight) Title.

1982- Michael Spinks KO 6 Mustapha Wassaja, Atlantic City. Retains WBA World Light Heavyweight Title.

1982- Alexis Arguello KO 6 Bubba Busceme, Beaumont, TX. Retains WBC World Lightweight Title. What a great day! Spinks and Arguello; the same day, different channels, and both on free TV! The good old days.

1983- Donald Curry W 15 Jun Sok Hwang, Fort Worth, TX. Wins vacant WBA World Welterweight Title.

1983- Leroy Haley W 12 Saoul Mamby, Cleveland. Retains WBC World Super Lightweight Title.

1987- Fidel Bassa W 15 Hilario Zapata, Barranquilla. Wins WBA World Flyweight Title.

1993- James "Lights Out" Toney KO 9 Iran Barkley, Las Vegas. Wins IBF World Super Middleweight Title. Pure butchery!

1993- Roy Jones Jr. KO 1 Glenn Wolfe, Las Vegas. Super Middleweight Bout. Jones improves to 21-0 (20).

1993- John-John Molina KO 8 Francisco Segura, Bayamon PR. Retains IBF World Junior Lightweight Title.

1994- Jake Rodriguez W 12 Charles Murray, Atlantic City. Wins IBF World Junior Welterweight Title.

1994- Saensor Ploenchit W 12 David Griman, Bangkok. Wins WBA World Flyweight Title.

1997- Former World Welterweight champion Don Jordan, 62, dies in a San Pedro, California, nursing home. He’d been in a coma since September 1996 when he was brutally beaten and robbed in a Los Angeles parking lot.

1998- Laurent Boudouani D 12 Guillermo Jones, Albuquerque, NM. Retains WBA World Super Welterweight Title.

1998- Johnny Tapia W 12 Rodolfo Blanco, Albuquerque, NM. Retains WBO and IBF World Junior Bantamweight Titles.

1998- Will Grigsby W 12 Javier Cintron, Albuquerque, NM. Retains USBA Flyweight Title.

1999- Joe Calzaghe W 12 Robin Reid, Newcastle, England. Retains WBO World Super Middleweight Title.

1999- Richie Woodhall KO 6 Vincenzo Nardiello, Newcastle, England. Retains WBC World Super Middleweight Title.

1999- Oscar De La Hoya W 12 Ike Quartey, Las Vegas. Retains Lineal and WBC World Welterweight Titles.

1999- Takanori Hatakeyama D 12 Saul Duran, Tokyo. Retains WBA World Super Featherweight Title.

1999- Erik Morales KO 2 Angel Chacon, Las Vegas. Retains WBC World Super Bantamweight Title.

2001- Daisuke Naito KO 5 Jun Carola, Tokyo. Flyweight Bout.

2002- Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym KO 4 Pederito Laurente, Bangkok, Thailand. Retains PABA Bantamweight Title.

2002- Chana Porpaoin KO 6 Jack Comen, Bangkok. Minimumweight Bout.

2004- Mzonke Fana KO 6 Cristian Sebastian Paz, Khayelista, Western Cape, South Africa. Super Featherweight Bout.

2004- Brian Viloria W 12 Juan Alfonso Keb Baas, Uncasville, CT. Retains NABF Flyweight Title.

2004- Jose Luis Castillo KO 2 Derrick Parks, Laughlin, NV. Welterweight Bout.

2004- Steve Luevano W 8 Armando Cordoba, Laughlin, NV. Super Featherweight Bout.

2005- Colin Lynes W 12 Juaquin Gallardo, Brentwood, Essex, England. Retains IBO Junior Welterweight Title.

2005- Robin Reid W 6 Ramdane Serdjane, Brentwood, Essex, England. Non-title light heavyweight bout. Reid's IBO Super Middleweight title was not on the line.

2006- Daisuke Naito W 10 Daigo Nakahiro, Tokyo. Retains Japanese Flyweight Title.

2008- Jun Talape W 12 Roel Laguna, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Retains Philippines Games and Amusement Board Super Bantamweight Title.

2008- Eric Barcelona W 10 Danila Pena, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Retains Philippines Boxing Federation Bantamweight Title.

2009- Jun Talape W 12 Roel Laguna, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Retains Philippines Games and Amusement Board Super Bantamweight Title in rematch held exactly one year after Talape-Laguna I.

2009- Carlos Molina W 10 Alexis Camacho, New York, NY. Welterweight Bout.

2009- Nathan Clevely KO 1 Samson Onyango, Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Retains Commonwealth Light Heavyweight Title.

2009- Petch Sor Jongchareon (now known as Petch Kokietgym) W 10 Jason Butar Butar, Ban Phai, Khon Kaen, Thailand. Retains WBC Interim Youth World Super Flyweight Bout.

2009- Ratanachai Sor Vorapin (AKA Ratanachai Singwancha) W 6 Falazona Fidal, Ban Phai, Khon Kaen, Thailand. Bantamweight Bout.

2010- Nonito Donaire KO 3 Manuel Vargas, Las Vegas. Non-title Super Flyweight Bout. Donaire's WBA Interim Super Flyweight Title was not on the line.

2010- Fernando Montiel KO 1 Ciso Morales, Las Vegas. Retained WBO World Bantamweight Title.

2010- Eric Morel W 12 Gerry Penalosa, Las Vegas. Won Vacant WBO Interim Bantamweight Title.

2010- Nathan Cleverly KO 5 Antonio Brancalion, Wembley, London, England. Wins Vacant EBU European Light Heavyeight Title.

2010- Kevin Mitchell KO 2 Ignacio Mendoza, Wembley, London, England. Retains WBO Inter-Continental Lightweight Title.

2010- Ramon Garcia (Ramon Garcia Hirales) KO 2 Michael Arango, Los Cabos, Bala California Sur, Mexico. Retains WBC International Light Flyweight Title.

2010- Juan Carlos Reveco KO 5 Emerson Santos Carvalho, Maldonado, Uruguay. Non-title Super Flyweight Bout. Reveco's WBC Interim Light Flyweight title was not on the line.

2010- Jonathan Victor Barros W 6 Lazaro Santos de Jesus, Maldonado, Uruguay. Super Featherweight Bout.


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1967- Johnny Tapia (born in in Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Mexican-American five-time world boxing champion.
Tapia had an outstanding amateur career, and was the 1983 National Golden Gloves light flyweight champion and the 1985 National Golden Gloves flyweight champion.
His professional career began on March 25, 1988, when he fought Effren Chavez in Irvine, California. After four rounds of boxing the fight was called a draw. He won eight fights that year, five by knockout, of which four were in the first round. In 1989, he won seven more fights, including a first round knockout of Abner Barajas and an eight-round decision against John Michael Johnson.
In 1990, he won seven bouts, including an eight-round decision over Jesus Chong, an eleventh-round technical knockout of Roland Gomez in Reno that gave him the United States Junior Bantamweight title, and a twelve-round decision over Luigi Camputaro, to retain that title. Tapia was, by the end of the year, a known boxer, his name often appearing in magazine articles.
He was suspended from boxing for three years after failing a drug test; he returned in 1994.
When he was finally back in the ring, he beat Jaime Olvera by a knockout in four rounds in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He won three more fights by knockout, and then he faced Oscar Aguilar at the Michael Carbajal-Josue Camacho undercard in Phoenix for the NABF Jr. Bantamweight title. He won that fight by a knockout in the third round. After that fight, Albuquerque Police claimed they found cocaine in a bag carried by Tapia five days later. Tapia claimed what the police found was only a soap bar, and then charges were eventually dropped.
On October 12, 1994, Tapia defeated Henry Martinez to claim the vacant WBO World Junior Bantamweight title. He then knocked out former champion Rolando Bohol in the second round. In his first title defense, Tapia defeated Jose Rafael Sosa by decision.
He retained the title with a nine-round technical draw with Ricardo Vargas and a decision in twelve against former amateur nemesis Arthur Johnson. After two more wins, he gave Willy Salazar a title shot, knocking him out in nine rounds.
In 1996, he fought six more times, keeping his undefeated record and defending the title five times during that period, which included wins against Giovanni Andrade, Ivan Alvarez, future champion Hugo Rafael Soto, Sammy Stewart and Adonis Cruz. By then, a heated rivalry was cooking up between him and IBF world champion Danny Romero. Their rivalry had begun many years earlier when Romero's father trained both boxers. Tapia's split with the Romeros had not been on good terms. It was rumored that Tapia and Romero were members of rival gangs, although those claims were never substantiated.
1997 saw Tapia fend off a challenge from Jorge Barrera in three rounds. After that, the fight with Romero was set for Las Vegas. The fight took place on July 18. Tapia won by a unanimous twelve round decision, adding the IBF world title to his WBO belt. In his next fight, he defeated Puerto Rico's Andy Agosto via decision. Tapia began 1998 by defending his championships against former world champion Rodolfo Blanco of Colombia via decision, and then he vacated his World Junior Bantamweight crown in order to move up in weight.
On December 5, 1998, Tapia defeated WBA Bantamweight champion Nana Konadu by decision to became a two-division world champion.
In 1999, Tapia suffered his first loss in his 48-bout career, losing a decision and the WBA world title belt to Paulie Ayala in The Ring Magazine called its "Fight of the Year." Later that year, Tapia tried to commit suicide with a drug overdose, and required hospitalization. Back quickly after that, he was given a chance at the WBO world title belt, and he became a two time World Bantamweight champion by beating Jorge Eliecer Julio by a decision at Albuquerque on January 8, 2000. After defending his belt with a decision over Javier Torres, a rematch with Ayala to unify the belt was set up. Ayala won another close, split-decision win.
Tapia then returned home to prepare for bouts in 2001, when he went up in weight and beat Famosito Gomez by a knockout in six, and former World Featherweight champion Cesar Soto by a knockout in three.
In 2002, Tapia traveled to London, where he knocked out Eduardo Enrique Alvarez in the first round; after the bout, he was interviewed by former rival Romero. Tapia's next bout, for the IBF world Featherweight title, was versus Manuel Medina. Tapia won a dubious decision, becoming a world title holder in three different divisions. He left the title vacant so he could face Marco Antonio Barrera, who beat Tapia in twelve rounds.
Tapia returned on the night of October 4, 2003, defeating Carlos Contreras by ten round unanimous decision at Albuquerque.
On April 15, 2005, he sustained an injury to his left eye but was able to continue and win a repeat match-up with Frankie Archuleta. That win came by ten round split decision in Albuquerque.
At 38, Tapia faced little-known Sandro Marcos in Chicago. In the second round, Marcos connected with a left hook to the body. Tapia fell to the canvas, clutching his ribcage, as referee Genaro Rodriguez reached the count of 10.
On January 17, 2007 Tapia held a press conference stating that he would face Ilido Julio on February 23 in his home town of Albuquerque, New Mexico, then retire. The bout was being promoted as The Final Fury and Tapia promised he would win. Tapia won the fight by majority decision, 98-92, 96-94, 95-95.
Tapia was found unconscious and not breathing in a hotel room early on the morning of March 12, 2007. Tapia was hospitalized in critical condition from an apparent cocaine overdose at Albuquerque Presbyterian Hospital.
The next day, on the morning of March 13, Tapia's brother-in-law and nephew were killed in an automobile accident on U.S. Highway 550 near Bloomfield, New Mexico, apparently en route to the hospital to visit Tapia. That same day, Tapia was upgraded from critical to serious condition.
Tapia was scheduled to make a comeback on May 2, 2008, in El Paso, Texas, but pulled out due to contractual disputes with promoter Ron Weathers.
On February 11, 2009, Tapia was taken into custody in Albuquerque for a violation of parole related to cocaine use.
Tapia beat Jorge Alberto Reyes by a knockout in the 4th round on March 6, 2010 at the Ohkay Casino, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, United States in front of a sold-out crowd.
In his early childhood Tapia saw his mother kidnapped. He tried to wake up others in the house but no one believed him. Later his mother was found seriously beaten beside a road and she died at the hospital alone. Neither Johnny nor any of his other relatives knew where she was. Years later the police discovered that someone had visited the hospital and killed his mother. Tapia has many tattoos, which are prominent when he is fighting. One of them says Mi Vida Loca ("My Crazy Life"), the nickname he adopted. He wrote an autobiography by that title.[citation needed] He is now a born-again Christian. Tapia's son, Johnny Tapia II, made his amateur boxing debut in March 2007.
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A YEAR AGO-

February 13, 2011-

Koh Lanta, Krobi, Thailand-

PABA Flyweight Title-
Champion Tepparith Singwancha (AKA Tepparith Kokietgym; WBA #5, WBO #9, WBC #40; 14-2, 10 KOs)
Unan. Dec. 12
Michael Rodriguez (12-27, 3 KOs)
- Singwancha was also ranked #2 by the WBC's Asian Boxing Council.
- Rodriguez was ranked #15 at 112 by the PABA. His Luzon Professional Boxing Association light flyweight title was not on the line.
- Singwancha won by the scores of 119-109, 119-109, and 120-108.

Super Flyweight Bout-
Wandee Singwancha (formerly known as Wandee Chor Chareon; WBC #25; 65-12-1, 16 KOs)
DQ-1
Laoniyom Kwanjaisrikod (AKA Lamnamkorn Kwanjaisrikod; 0-2)
- Singwancha was also ranked #4 by the WBC's Asian Boxing Council and #12 by the OPBF.
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1994- Jake Rodriguez W 12 Charles Murray, Atlantic City. Wins IBF World Junior Welterweight Title.


One of my favorite upsets! Jake really outworked Murray in a close fight and...got the decision. It was a surprise for sure. Jake actually put together a decent little reign before Tszyu took the belt away to become a champion for the first time. It's not a huge win, but Rodriguez is probably overlooked as a good fighter.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013-

Wangnoi, Ayutthaya, Thailand-

Non-title Bantamweight Bout-
WBC International super flyweight champion Oleydong Sithsamerchai (WBC #3, TTR #5, The Ring #10, WBA #13- all at 115; WBO #3 at 108; 46-1-1, 16 KOs)
Unan. Dec. 6
Falazona Fidal (19-34-1, 7 KOs as per BoxRec; 62-32-4, 15 KOs as per the Indonesian Boxing Association/Asosiasi Tinju Indonesia)

Flyweight Bout-
Kompayak Porpramook (WBA #6 at 112; WBC #2, TTR #5, WBO #5, The Ring #7- all at 108; 49-4, 34 KOs)
TKO-3
Narongay Patanakan Gym (0-2 as per BoxRec; record may be incomplete also as per BoxRec)
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SIXTY YEARS AGO:

February 13, 1956-

San Diego, California-

Heavyweigt Bout-
Matt Jackson (20-5-4) TKOed Tommy Harrison (22-11-2) in the fourth round of a scheduled ten-rounder.

Providence, Rhode Island-

Reigning World featherweight champion and future Hall of Famer (IBHOF, WBHF) Sandy Saddler stopped lightweight George Monroe in the 3rd round of their scheduled non-title ten-round bout.

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