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

Sure was mate.

...and similarly sad to the death of Johnny 'Match Stick Man' Owen after his bout with Lupe Pintor.

There's excellent documentaries about both deaths, and they are both 1st grade tear jerkers.

 

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Muhammad Ali KO 15 Chuck Wepner - Cleveland.
Ali retains World heavyweight title. Wepner is credited with a 9th-round KD over Ali, but photos later reveal Wepner stepped on Ali’s foot as he was pulling away from a punch.

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Oscar De La Hoya KO 5 Arturo Gatti - Las Vegas.
‘Thunder’ Gatti unfortunately passed away in August 2009

 

Psst...I get all my anniversary posts from Ron Hubbard.

The Church of Scientology claim he lived for millions of years...so apologies if some of the anniversary posts are a little dated.

 

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Sugar Ray Robinson W 15 Carmen Basilio - Chicago.
Sugar Ray wins World middleweight title for a 5th-time!

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George Foreman KO 2 Ken Norton - Caracas.
Big George retains World heavyweight title. Norton receives 2-standing eight counts, and after Norton suffers a KD, Norton’s chief second stops the fight as Norton barely regains his feet.

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Wladimir Klitschko born - makes him 34 today.

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Former Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson, 28, is released from the Indiana Youth Centre after serving 3-years of a 6-year sentence for the **** of a beauty pageant contestant.

 

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Vince Cervi v James Grima - Reggio Calabria Club (Victoria).
Cervi wins vacant Australian heavyweight title, stopping Grima in round 3 of 12.
Vince would be tragecally killed by gunshot wounds, inflicted by a former boxing trainer, outside a house Cervi owned on 9th March 2009.

 

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v Baby Boy Rolle (Bahamas) – Festival Hall, Brisbane.
Mundine wins by KO in round 3 of 15. Another successful defence for Mundine of the Commonwealth middleweight title he held for an absolute eternity.

 

...and for the weekend dates:

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Can't find a single bloody thing!
So there's a challenge for someone - find something significant boxing-wise that happened on the 27th March - any year will do!

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Peter Keenan (UK) v

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(Australia) – Sydney Stadium.
Keenan won the vacant Commonwealth bantamweight title on PTS over 15 rounds. Bout was refereed by Vic Patrick.
The year before, Sinn was unsuccessful against Carrothers in what was an eliminator for the challenge to Toweel’s world title.
Sinn held Australian titles at both bantam & featherweight, but Commonwealth & World honours eluded him.

 

Nice work Hands - now find something for March 27 - GOOD LUCK!

 

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Muhammad Ali v George Chuvalo – Toronto, Canada.
Muhammad Ali beat George Chuvalo UD over 15 and retained his World heavyweight title.
Canadian Chuvalo, who earlier unsuccessfully challenged Ernie Terrell for his World title, falls short again.

 

...well done!

...and please take home with you the Pelacco shirt, Bertocci ham, Ballantine's chocolates and the 4 'n' 20 pies!