MARCH 15th

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By James Slater: On this very day eight years ago (March 13) Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield boxed one of the most controversial heavyweight title bouts in boxing history.

By James Slater: On this very day eight years ago (March 13) Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield boxed one of the most controversial heavyweight title bouts in boxing history.

Almost everyone in attendance in Madison Square Garden, New York that night thought Lennox had done enough to win at the end of the 12 rounds. Everyone that, is except two of the three scoring judges. Stanley Christodoulou’s card was okay, giving Lewis the nod by a score of 116-113. But he was overruled by the cards of Britain’s Larry O’Connell, who had the fight all even at 115-115 and the downright crazy scoring of the now infamous Eugenia Williams, who somehow scored the bout as a Holyfield win by a 115-113 margin. Immediately after the result was announced the finger pointing and accusations began.

There is no doubt the decision was a bad one. In fact it was deemed so terribly controversial that the fight was subject to a Congressional inquiry. No less a figure than the mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, said he was shocked and embarrassed at the verdict - particularly as it had come in the city over which he presided. As usual, however, most of the fingers were pointed in Don King’s direction. After all he had hired Williams. Of course he denied any wrong doing and, whether we liked it or not, nothing was ever proven. The verdict, like any other bad one in the sometimes chequered past of professional boxing, stuck. A rematch would be fought though.

After the huge outcry fight number one invoked a return bout was an absolute must. The predictions made by many experts leading up to it, however, were not proven to be correct. Angelo Dundee, the legendary trainer and corner-man, summed up many peoples’ thoughts when he stated how he felt an ultra quick destruction of the ageing Holyfield would be what we would see this time around. The beating he had appeared to have taken from Lennox in the first fight only served to convince many how correct Dundee’s assertions were. But things didn’t go the way Angelo said they would.

Another distance fight ensued and Lewis prevailed by a close, but unanimous, verdict. Retribution was the Englander’s. As too was the undisputed heavyweight championship. The rematch had been close, however. Much closer than the first fight in fact. Due to the furore the meeting in March had caused though, anything other than a Lewis win at the end of 12 close rounds would have been seen as a disgrace. The right man won this time, without too much doubt. But Evander Holyfield just might have been the one having his hand raised in November had the controversial first fight not taken place. The Sun’s Colin Hart, for example, scored the return fight as a close win for “The Real Deal.”

Whatever, Lennox Lewis was now justifiably recognized as the best big man on the planet. Nothing could ever have removed the embarrassment or outrage of the March meeting’s questionable officiating, but Lennox Lewis had at last seen his destiny fulfilled.
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1963- Archie Moore KO 3 Mike DiBiase, Phoenix. The final fight in Moore’s illustrious career. Moore exits with a record of 183-24-10-1 with an untouchable record of 141 knockouts.

1975- Alexis Arguello KO 8 Leonel Hernandez, Caracas. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.

1985- 1985: Larry Holmes KO 10 David Bey, Las Vegas. Retains World Heavyweight Title. Larry’s 19th consecutive defense over-all.

2003- Sven Ottke W 12 Byron Mitchell, Berlin. Unifies WBA & IBF Super Middleweight Title.

2003- Acelino Freitas KO 4 Juan Carlos Ramirez, Chicago. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.

2003- Manny Pacquiao KO 5 Serikzhan Yeshmangbetov, Manila. Non-title fight. WBC CISBB featherweight titleholder Yeshmangbetov, (17-5-1, 8 KOs prior to the fight) drops the reigning IBF Junior Featherweight Champion with a right hand in round four. Pacquiao floored Yeshmangbetov in the first and fifth rounds.

2008- Manny Pacquiao defeats Juan Manuel Márquez by split decision.
The fight was held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. With victory, Pacquiao won the WBC super featherweight and Ring Magazine junior lightweight belts (as well as the lineal world junior lightweight title), making him the first Filipino to win three major world titles in three different weight divisions (Pacquiao was a former WBC- and lineal- flyweight champion and former IBF junior featherweight champion). However, with his lineal world featherweight championship and Ring Magazine featherweight belt, Pacquiao had actually won four world titles in four different weight classes at this point.
The fight was a close hard fought battle, during which both fighters received cuts. Throughout the fight Márquez landed the most punches at a higher percentage; however, the decisive factor proved to be a third round knockdown, wherein Márquez was floored by a Pacquiao left hook. At the end of the fight, the judges' scores were 115-112 for Pacquiao, 115-112 for Márquez, and 114-113 for Pacquiao.
In the post-fight press conference, Márquez’s camp called for an immediate rematch. In addition, Richard Schaefer, Golden Boy Promotions CEO, offered a 6 million dollar guarantee to Pacquiao for a rematch. However, Pacquiao ruled out a third clash with Márquez, stating: "I don't think so. This business is over." The reason that Pacquiao did not want a rematch was because he intended to move up to the lightweight division, in order to challenge David Díaz, the reigning WBC World lightweight champion at that time. Díaz won the majority decision over Ramón Montano that night as an undercard of the "Unfinished Business" fight.

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Passed Away On This Day

2001- Referee Dick Young, 85, dies from pneumonia complications in California.

1906- Abe Attell W disq. 3 Tony Moran, Baltimore. Retains World Featherweight Title.

1963- Archie Moore KO 3 Mike DiBiase, Phoenix. The final fight in Moore’s illustrious career. Moore exits with a record of 183-24-10-1 with an untouchable record of 141 knockouts.

1975- Alexis Arguello KO 8 Leonel Hernandez, Caracas. Retains WBA Featherweight Title.

1977- Eckhard Dagge D 15 Maurice Hope, Berlin. Retains WBA Super Welterweight Title.

1983- Charlie Magri KO 7 Eleoncio Mercedes, Wembley. Wins WBC Flyweight Title.

1984- Jiro Watanabe KO 15 Celso Chavez, Osaka. Retains WBA Super Flyweight Title.

1985- Larry Holmes KO 10 David Bey, Las Vegas. Retains World Heavyweight Title. Larry’s 19th consecutive defense over-all.

1986- Patrizio Oliva W 15 Ubaldo Sacco, Monte Carlo. Wins WBA Super Lightweight Title.

1991- Brian Mitchell D 12 Tony Lopez, Sacramento. For IBF & WBA Super Featherweight Title.

1992- Eddie Cook KO 5 Israel Contreras, Las Vegas. Wins WBA Bantamweight Title.

1997- Daorung Chuvatana W 12 Felix Machado, Satul Province, Thailand. Retains WBA Bantamweight Title.

2003- Sven Ottke W 12 Byron Mitchell, Berlin. Unifies WBA & IBF Super Middleweight Title.

2003= Acelino Freitas KO 4 Juan Carlos Ramirez, Chicago. Retains WBA Super Featherweight Title.

2003- Manny Pacquiao KO 5 Serikzhan Yeshmangbetov, Manila. Non-title fight. WBC CISBB featherweight titleholder Yeshmangbetov, (17-5-1, 8 KOs prior to the fight) drops the reigning IBF Junior Featherweight Champion with a right hand in round four. Pacquiao floored Yeshmangbetov in the first and fifth rounds.

2008- Manny Pacquiao W 12 Juan Manuel Marquez, Las Vegas. Wins World Super Featherweight Title. Referee: Kenny Bayless | judge: Duane Ford 115-112 | judge: Jerry Roth 112-115 | judge: Tom Miller 114-113.

Born On This Day

1963- Zack Padilla (born in Glendora, CA)
etired American boxer and a former WBO Light Welterweight champion.
Padilla turned pro in 1985 and retired shortly thereafter in 1986 after a TKO loss to Dwayne Prim.
In 1991, he returned to boxing and went on a nine fight winning streak, which included victories over future champion James Page and former champion Roger Mayweather, before challenging for a world title. In 1993, he captured the WBO Light Welterweight Title by defeating Carlos Gonzalez by decision. He successfully defended the title four times with victories over Efrem Calamati (35-0-1), Ray Oliveira, Harold Miller, and former champion Juan Laporte. His fight with Olivera in 1993 once held the Compubox record for the most punches thrown in a fight. In 1993, he was also named the Ring magazine comeback fighter of the year. During a sparring session with Shane Mosley, Padilla was hit with a hard punch which caused a brain injury. Padilla's boxing license was then suspended indefinitely, and he never fought again. He had a career record of 24-1-1 with 14 KO's.

1963- Edwin Rosario (born in Puerto Rico)
Puerto Rican boxer refered to as El Chapo. He was the WBC world lightweight champion from 1983–84 and the WBA world champion in 1986–87 and again in 1989–90. After moving up to the junior welterweight class, he became a WBA world champion once more, holding the title from 1991 to 1992.
Chapo, as he was known in the world of boxing, was born in Barrio Candelaria, Toa Baja, an extremely poor barrio. Rosario's brother, Papo Rosario, was a professional boxer in the beginning of a promising career. His boxing manager and coach (trainer) was Eulalio "Lalo" Medina. Rosario was inspired by his brother, and had a stellar amateur boxing career.
Papo died unexpectedly, supposedly due to drugs, two years after his Rosario's move to professional boxing. Rosario persevered, wanting to honor his brother's memory by winning a world championship. He scored big knockout wins over Young Ezzard Charles and Edwin Viruet, the former in 3 rounds on the Holmes-Cooney undercard. He eventually gained a record of 21-0 with 20 knockouts. This led to talks of a title fight against world lightweight champion Alexis Argüello, to be held in Miami, but Argüello abandoned the division to challenge Aaron Pryor.
Rosario was then matched with Mexico's José Luis Ramírez on May 1, 1983. Rosario dominated the first 7 rounds, but tired down the stretch to make for a very close fight. The judges, as well as most of the public present, felt Rosario had done enough to win, and Rosario had become world lightweight champion by the unanimous score of 115-113 on all 3 judging cards. Rosario injured his hand during the fight and needed surgery, for which the World Boxing Council gave him a dispensation.
Rosario returned to the ring in 1984. In his first defense of the title, he faced Roberto Elizondo, who had lasted 7 rounds with Argüello in a previous world title challenge and was expected to give Rosario a tough challenge. However, Rosario knocked out Elizondo in a single round. Howard Davis Jr proved more of a challenge—he led Rosario on all scorecards with ten seconds remaining in the bout, but was dropped by Rosario and lost a split decision.
A rematch with Ramírez was scheduled, again in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on November 3, 1984. Rosario dropped Ramírez once in round one and again in the second, but Ramírez was well trained and got off the canvas to take Rosario's title away with a four round TKO. This was Rosario's first defeat, and he seemed to never fully recover.
Rosario won a comeback fight against future world champion Frankie Randall in London and then had to wait one more year before an opportunity to recover the title. On June 13, 1986, he met world champion Hector 'Macho' Camacho at Madison Square Garden in New York. The fight was televised by HBO, and although Rosario shook Camacho badly in the fifth round and rallied down the stretch, Camacho swept the middle rounds and the judges thought that had been enough for him to retain the title by a split decision.
Because of the closeness of that bout, the WBA gave him a chance to challenge the other world lightweight champion, Livingstone Bramble. Rosario went to Miami and defeated Bramble by a knockout in the second round to become world lightweight champion for the second time. His pose, raising his arms after the fight, became The Ring magazine's cover for the next month—the only time Rosario was featured on the cover of that magazine's English version. He defended the title against fellow Puerto Rican Juan Nazario with a knockout in eight in Chicago, but in his next defense he was brutally beaten by Julio César Chávez in Las Vegas. By the eleventh round, Rosario's eye was almost completely shut and he was spitting blood from his mouth; the fight was stopped by his corner, and Rosario lost.
Rosario took off for 7 months, went 7-0 with 6 KO's, and after Chavez vacated the title in 1989, Rosario came back and won it again, beating tough Kronk prospect Anthony Jones for the championship. Rosario joined the short group of men who had become world champions 3 times in the same division. This time, however, he didn't last long; he gave Nazario a rematch, and Nazario stopped him on cuts in 1990 at Madison Square Garden in the 8th round.
Rosario moved up a weight class to the junior welterweight division, and then defeated defending world champion Loreto Garza in three rounds in Sacramento's Arco Arena to become a world champion for the 4th time. However, personal problems started to take their toll. In his first defense, against Japanese Akinobu Hiranaka in Mexico City on April 10, 1992, he lost by TKO in the 1st round.
Rosario disappeared from the boxing scene, but years later received media attention after being arrested for stealing beer from a supermarket. He vowed to stay clean and went into a program to achieve this. In 1997, he won two comeback fights, then won the Caribbean welterweight title by beating Roger Benito Flores of Nicaragua in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, in a twelve-round decision. Rosario, once an HBO staple, was now fighting on small cards without any TV showings. He was, however, ranked #10 among Oscar De La Hoya's challengers at the welterweight division after his win over Flores, making him an official world title challenger once again.
However, after defeating Sanford Ricks at Madison Square Garden and celebrating his final fight on September 25, 1997 by knocking out Harold Bennett in 2 rounds at Bayamon, Puerto Rico, Rosario died before any more fights could take place. He died of an aneurysm on December 1, 1997. Many celebrities and dignitaries attended his funeral, and a group of Puerto Rican world boxing champions were among the pallbearers. More than five thousand people came to the funeral or watched from their homes as the coffin was driven from the funeral home to the cemetery. On January 12, 2006, Rosario was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, thus becoming the sixth Puerto Rican inducted into the hall.

1972- Glenn Catley (born Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England)
Professional boxer and former World Champion in the Super Middleweight (168lb) division.
Known as "Catman", Catley turned pro in 1993 as a Middleweight and Won 21 of his forst 22 fights (including a victory over Kirkland Laing), and won the WBC International Middleweight Title against George Bocco. However, he then surprisingly lost this title to Hungarian Andras Galfi by TKO.
Catley came back from this unexpected setback and won the British Middleweight Title with a KO over world rated Neville Brown.
He then moved up to Super Middleweight and challenged WBC World Super Middleweight Title holder Richie Woodhall in 1998, but lost a majority decision in an all British battle. Woodhall did not perform well and many observers felt Catley had done enough to win.
Catley then had an impressive run of wins, capturing the WBO Intercontinental Super Middle title in a revenge victory over Andras Galfi, taking the IBF version against Andy Flute. Catley then travelled to Canada and scored a very impressive KO win over the teak tough and highly rated Eric Lucas. Lucas had never previously been knocked out.
These wins earned him another shot at the WBC title against World Champion Markus Beyer of Germany. Catley again scored an impressive KO "on the road" (Germany being a notoriously difficult place for an away boxer to win) , winning the World Title via 12th round TKO.
Catley surprisingly lost the belt in his next fight, again in an "away" fight in South Africa against Dingaan Thobela, via 12th round KO. Catley was leading comfortably, but seemed to tire in the heat late in the fight.
In 2001, he got a chance to regain the Vacant WBC Super Middleweight Title against Eric Lucas. He travelled to Canada once more, but this time Lucas exacted revenge, and he was KO'd in the 7th.
He travelled to Germany to challenge Danilo Haussler for the European Title, and despite flooring Haussler in the 8th round, was somewhat harshly on the wrong end of a majority decision. Many observers felt this was a "Home Town" decision.
After a warm up against an Armenian journeyman, Catley again challenged Haussler, again in Germany. The fight was stopped after the German suffered an accidental headbutt, however he retained the title on a Technical Decision. Catley retired after this fight, which was on 1st February 2003.
He made a short comeback in 2006-7, winning KO's over two fairly respectable journeymen from Syria and Russia, before retiring for good.
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Re: MARCH 15th

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SIXTY YEARS AGO:

March 15, 1956-

Boise, Idaho, USA-

Middleweight Dick Lane (29-2-2) unanimously outpointed Vicente Echevarria (35-10-6) over 10 rounds.

On the undercard, previously unbeaten light heavyweight prospect Roque Maravilla (10-1) was knocked out in the 5th round by Carlton Lincoln (4-2).

Maravilla would avenge that loss by knocking Lincoln out in the 5th round on October 17, 1957. Maravilla would also defeat Lane, stopping him in the sixth round on January 16, 1958.

Sunnyside, Queens, New York, USA-

Future World lightweight title challenger Johnny Busso (25-3-1) won an eight-round, unanimous decision over Frankie Ippolito (17-3-1).

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA-

Lightweight Jimmy Soo improved to 31-0 by unanimously outpointing veteran journeyman Earl Hilton (14-23-2) over eight rounds.

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