BOXING - What Happened On This Day???????

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Junior Talipeau v Jason Hartmann - Tattersall's Club, Brisbane.
Junior successfully defends his Australian middleweight title by stopping Hartmann in round 6 of 10.

 

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Young Joseph v Joe Fletcher - National Sporting Club, Covent Garden, London, UK.

The pair fought a draw over 20 x 3 minute rounds and both claimed the English 134 pound title.
They would meet 3 times in all, with all 3 bouts resulting in draws.

Young Joseph would go on to challenge Harry Lewis for the World welterweight title in 1910 (100 yrs ago) - being stopped in 7 rounds.

Joe Fletcher would meet and beat Jack Ward for the English 135 pound title, and next bout be involved in a no contest, when the referee deemed both boxers weren't trying!

 

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(35 years ago today)

Involved another of my all-time favourite fighters Tony Mundine, and unfortunately a loss:

Tony Mundine v James Marshall - Festival Hall, Brisbane, Queensland.

American Marshall won by KO in round 1 of 10. One of 3 first round KO losses Tony suffered in a long career.
This was Tony's 3rd deteat in a row. The only time in his long distinguished career that this occurred.
Marshall would score another handy win in his next start against Samoan/Kiwi Monty Betham, but largely because Betham broke a thumb and chose to be counted out rather than continue.

 

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(70 years ago today)

Sammy Angott v Davey Day - Jefferson County Armory, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

Angott narrowly defeated Day on pts over 15 rounds in winning the vacant world lightweight title.
The bout was refereed by ATG Jack Dempsey.
Lou Ambers had been stripped of this title for his failure to meet Davey Day in a title fight.

 

...and a day early:

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(40 years ago today)

Rocky Mattioli v Ricky Day - Festival Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Scottish born Day inflicted Mattioli’s first defeat.
Day only had one loss in his 9 fight career, to the young and heading for the bigtime, Hec Thompson.
Mattioli by contrast, would go on to win Maurice Hope’s World light middleweight title 10 years after the Day fight.

 

...and a couple of entries a day late:

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Birth date of the great Sugar Ray Robinson, born Walker Smith Jnr.
ATG, muliple world champion, perhaps the P4P greatest of all time!

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Birth date of world light heavweight champion Jose Torres. Torres won the junior middleweight silver medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, and returned to Australia in 1968, just after he’d lost his world title, to defeat our own Bobby Dunlop.

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...we'll get back on the correct day eventually...

 

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Eder Jofre v Jose Legra - Ginasio Presidente Medici, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil.

Brazilian Jofre won on PTS over 15 rounds, winning Legra's WBC World featherweight title in the process.
Legra had earlier lost the same title to our own Johnny Famechon, and won it back when vacant by beating Sanchez.

 

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Floyd Mayweather v Oscar De La Hoya - MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

A points win to 'Money' Mayweather, retaining his WBC light middleweight title in one of history's biggest fights.

 

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Barry Michael v Langton Tonago - Festival Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Barry 'Boy' Michael defeated Zimbabwian Tonago, winning the Commonwealth lightweight title on pts over 15 rounds.

Tonago would later reclaim the same title twice, one of them against our own Graeme Brooke, in 1986.

 

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Pro debut of the great Roy Jones Jnr at the Civic Center, Pensacola, Florida, USA.

Admittedly he was robbed blind at the Seoul Olympics, but who would have forseen the string of world professional titles that would follow?
Sadly, Jones, like many before him should have retired earlier. Avoiding forgetable recent performances including those against Bernard Hopkins, and our own Danny Green.

 

There's madness in the method and method in the madness!