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

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(10 years ago)

Kostya Tszyu v Julio Cesar Chavez - Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

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Kostya retains his WBC super lightweight title by KO in round 6 of 12.

 

Kostya's achievements seem to have been forgotten by many fairly quickly unfortunately.

Granted JCC was 38, and probably passed his best when they met, but JCC did go winning for another 4 or 5 years afterwards.

 

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Gary St. Clair v Cassius Baloyi - Johannesburg, South Africa.

St. Clair wins the IBF super featherweight title on PTS over 12 rounds.

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pictured: St Clair (right) vs Amir Khan

 

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Carlos Monzon v Rodrigo Valdez - Stade Louis II, Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Monzon retains his world middleweight title on PTS over 15 rounds.
In round two Monzon suffers a knock down for the first time in thirteen years.

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Monzon goes on to control the last half of the fight and earns the UD decision.

The 34 year-old, and now ATG, Monzon would later announce that this his last fight, leaving his career figures at 87 wins (59 by KO), 3 losses and 9 draws.

 

...no anniversary involved here, just an article worth a read:


Manny Pacquiao The Best Around - Paul Ferreri

By Ronnie Nathanielsz (Boxing Scene) - 29th July 2010


One of the classiest boxers produced by Australia, Paul Ferreri, who reigned as Australian bantamweight champion for almost 16 years and was also the Commonwealth 118 pound champion besides winning the Australian featherweight title and gave undefeated Mexican KO specialist Carlos Zarate the fight of his life, believes Manny Pacquiao “pound for pound is the best fighter there is around today and the most popular too.”

In an interview with Viva Sports for the boxing show “The Main Event” Ferreri who was born on the island of Sicily in 1948 and migrated to Australia in 1952 and made his pro debut in 1968 said “they are going to find it very hard to pick a fighter that would beat Manny Pacquiao at this stage. I can’t see anybody coming up at the moment that will beat him.”

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Peter Maniatis with Manny Pacquiao

Ferreri recalled that he had “quite a few fights against Filipinos and its good to be back here because there are good memories.”

His biggest win in the Philippines was against Rolando Navarette on June 26, 1976 when Ferreri scored a ten round decision over the hard-hitting Filipino at the Cebu Coliseum.

He said Navarette was “a very renowned fighter , a KO boxer and I had to be aware of it. It’s a little vague at this time because it was a long time ago but I did win the fight. I out-boxed him because I had to do that cause you never know, although I’ve been with a lot of big punchers. But they are the ones I like fighting because I think I handle them quite well.”

He recalled that it was the same when he fought Mexico’s renowned KO artist Carlos Zarate for the WBC bantamweight title in Los Angeles and lost in a classic battle while it lasted before he suffered a TKO in the 12th round of the 15 round bout. Richard Steele, who was officiating in his first world title bout, was the referee.

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Paul Ferreri

Ferreri said at that time Zarate had won 41 fights with 40 knockouts but said “he didn’t really hurt me at any time so I don’t know the reason how he knocks out people.” He said that “ unfortunately I ran into a straight left and was cut rather badly. He must have connected perfectly because it cut the eye and I had problems and couldn’t do what I wanted to. I tried to prolong the fight as long as I could but unfortunately it didn’t go my way and the referee stopped the fight in the 12th round. At that time I was the only fighter to go that distance with Zarate. It was quite an achievement.”

Looking back on his career in which he faced a number of Filipinos aside from Navarrette, Ferreri said “of course fighting Zarate was the ultimate for me and fighting for the Commonwealth title and also the Australian bantamweight title which I held for 18 years which may be a world record since I don’t know of any other fighter who has been a national champion for 18 years.

I had a lovely time in those 20 years, retired when I was 39 because my boxing license was going to expire at 40 anyway. I had a lovely time over the years travelling around the world and I really loved boxing and all the attributes that come along with it.”

Ferreri who was inducted into the Australian Boxing Hall of Fame in 2006 said he loves traveling to the Philippines “because the people are very nice and very hospitable and I am glad to be back here again. Things haven’t changed much but the people are so lovely.”

Ferreri's first fight against a Filipino was against Isidro Vicera who was disqualified in the tenth round on May 11, 1970 at the Festival Hall in Melbourne. He then beat Floro Ybanez over 10 rounds at the same venue on November 16, 1970 before being held to a ten round draw by Willie Cordova on March 22, 1971.

Ferreri lost to Cordova who had a record of 18-8-4 with 8 knockouts in a rematch on June 7, 1971 before scoring a 10 round decision over Neptali Alamag on June 30, 1978.

 

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Jack Dempsey v George Fulljames.

The original Jack Dempsey 'The Nonpareil' becomes the first recognized world middleweight champion by KO in round 22.

The bout was the first recognised under the Marquis of Queensberry rules.

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Les Darcy v Eddie McGoorty - Sydney Stadium, Sydney, New South Wales.

Darcy, 'The Maitland Wonder' retains what was known at the time as World middleweight title (Australian version) by KO in round 15 of 20.

'Stadium management knew that with a drawcard like the immortal Darcy we could lure the best boxers in the world to Australia. A new world opened up. And we did. We brought such legendary figures as McGoorty, Clabby, Billy Papke, Cyclone Thompson, George Chip, Jeff Smith, Ray Bronson, Milburn Saylor, the Lonsdale Belt holders Matt Wells, Owen Moran, Jim Sullivan and a host of other ring greats whose names have been enhanced by time. We had to get Darcy released from work at the anvil so we got our solicitors to work'.
- Snowy Baker

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The recently unveiled Darcy statue in Maitland


....and the video from the statue unveiling courtesy of Paul Upham's camera and Rodin's posting of it:

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Mike Tyson v Tony Tucker - Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

'Iron' Mike wins the IBF heavyweight title from Tony Tucker in a twelve round unanimous decision.

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In acquiring the IBO belt Tyson becomes the first heavyweight to own all three major belts — WBA, WBC and IBF — at the same time.

 

Spot on. I remember that night well. Watched it at the local RSL (pre pokies) and when the first fight finished we had to quickly get them to change channels, and the other bout might have already started by then (from memory - it was 25 years ago!).

...those certainly were the days Bollox!

 

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Thomas Hearns v Pipino Cuevas - Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

'Hitman' Hearns wins the World welterweight title by TKO in round 2 of 15.

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This was the first of many world titles for the undefeated (at that stage) Hearns.