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

Speaking of good numbers Hands:

Ippy has Willie Pep at all-time Top 10 (see his thread) and Pep's up today:

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Sammy Angott v Willie Pep - New York City.
Angott, the reigning world lightweight champ, delivers Pep, the reigning world featherweight champ, his first defeat in 64-fights. The judges had it 5-4, 5-4, 6-4 in a UD over 10 rounds.
Pep would not suffer another defeat for 5-years, improving his record to 137-1-1, and finishing with an amazing career record of 229 wins (65 by KO), 11 losses and 1 draw.

 

Beer 'o' clock might just come early today, so here's Saurday's offering:

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(Australia) v Bobo Olson – Sydney Stadium (NSW).
Aussie legend Sands scored one of his career best wins against world class, and future world champion, Bobo Olson.
Sands would defeat Olson again in 1951, and then be tragically killed in 1952.
Olson went on to defeat Randy Turpin for the world middleweight title in 1953, and referred to the title he’d just one as really belonging to Dave Sands.

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Iran Barkley W 12 Thomas Hearns - Las Vegas.
Barkley wins WBA light heavyweight title by SD, with all 3 judges having it close. By the final round Hearns’ head is that swollen it looks like a pumpkin!

 

...and sunday:

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II for World bantamweight title – Johannesburg, South Africa.
This was the rematch won by Carruthers via KO in round 10 of 15.
The original match-up saw Jimmy jump Toweel, and win his world title, inside the 1st round. Can't remember the punch count, but Carrothers threw plenty and Toweel about one.

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Luis Rodriguez W 15 Emile Griffith for World welterweight title - Los Angeles.
Rodriguez wins title that Griffith had previously won back from Benny Paret, unfortunately killing Paret in the process.
Griffith would win his two subsequent bouts with Rodriguez for 2-1 head to head.

 

The 4th rope info is an interestin get FH. Pity it took a death to make it happen though.

Bit like traffic lights. They only install them at intersections after fatalities there force them to.

 

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James J. Jeffries (USA) KO 3

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(Australia) - San Francisco.
‘The Black Prince’ Jackson, 36, was dying from tuberculosis, and this was the second of only three career defeats in a career total of 102 bouts!

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Joel Casamayor KO 10

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- Cabazon, CA.
Casamayor retains his World lightweight title.
Both fighters suffered KD’s, and all 3 judges had the fight very close at the stoppage. A golden opportunity to win a world title that unfortunately slipped away from Kats.

 

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Joe Calzaghe born - makes him 38 today.
The 'Pride of Wales' put together the fairly handy career numbers of 46 wins, 32 KO's and zip in the other columns.
An ATG whose credentials are sometimes called into question at ESB.

 

...when Jackson suffered his 2nd defeat in 1898 Ash?

 

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Emile Griffith (USA) v Benny Paret (Cuba) – New York City, USA.

Griffith regains World welterweight title by TKO stoppage in round 12 of 15. ‘Kid’ Paret, who had racially taunted Griffith prior to the bout, sadly dies 10-days later as a result of the battering he received, and the bout is screened on live US TV for all to see. Grief stricken veteran referee Ruby Goldstein retired after the bout.

Granted Goldstein went into this bout unwell, but in the last minute, when a stoppage was urgently and obviously necessary he was nowhere to be seen – have a look at the video for yourself – Paret was just abandoned in the corner and the result tragic, but hardly a surprise.