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

11th March 1978.

Kooyong Melbourne, Rocky Mattioli KO'd Elisha Obed in the 7th round to win the WBC light middleweight title.

 

Retained, he won it off Eckhard Dagge.

(Yes Craig, I'm still looking for it.)

 

Eagle eye LMcS you are indeed correct Mattioli defended his title against Obed.
12 months later losing the title in San Remo Italy to Maurice Hope of the UK by 9th round TKO. atsch

 

No probs mate, was a little inside joke between myself and someone else, have been searching high and low for a copy of Mattioli-Dagge for quite awhile now for no luck.

 

Nostalgic thread, nice work.

 

13th March 1952

Sugar Ray Robinson retained his world MW title against Bobo Olsen
in San Francisco by UD over 15rds.
Boxers stats Robinson 173-19-6
Olsen 97-16-2

 

So many fights....just dont see anything like it anymore......who's had the most fights?....Willie Pep must be half a chance at 240 odd?

Edit: Maybe this guy......

Len Wickwar is the proud record holder of the most boxing fights ever fought with an incredible 467 bouts to his name. Born in 1911, the Leicester boxer won 337 boxing fights in a career spanning 21 years.
From 1926 to 1947 Wickwar amassed a total of 467 contests, beating the best at his weight

 

You've done well to dig that one up , amazing stats.
Would make an interesting thread ' the 200 + Fight Club "
Johnny Dundee was 300 + and Young Stribling probably would have made
300 but for his untimely death at 28 years.
Of the modern fighters Archie Moore was one who cracked the 200 barrier
One things for sure you would need to be a good defensive boxer to survive
these long careers.
I'll leave it to the experts to comment furthur on this subject.

 

Tend to agree mate...it would be interesting to know when they stopped doing fights to the finish?...then staging 15 rounds....and then down to todays 12 rounds?

Edit: I did find this but it's not from an official source as such......so dont know if its right

The last 2 fighters to participate in a fight to the finish were Sam
Langford and Jim Savage who fought in 1923 at the Plaza de Toros in
Mexico City.

and

The last title fight scheduled for more than 15 rounds was:
Joe Louis vs. Bob Pastor (scheduled for 20 rounds)

Maybe one of the boxing brains on here can add to this?

 

Soooo much to be said... Tend to agree though.. I'll leave it to the experts and boxing brains too..

P.S... Tiger Donnelly .. former OZ flyweight Champ had claims to over 500 fights.

 

Lester Ellis :hammertime