where i can find a year by year list of world championship boxing fights like for example, all world title fights of 1982? Thanks in advance!
Google. Type in your question and get directed to your answer. Wikipedia is good for boxers' records.
Thanks but I tried googling it to no avail,...I wish there was a place with a list of all title fights on a calendar-like basis, like for example :January 24, 1982 Eusebio Pedroza W15 Juan Laporte (retains WBA Featherweight title) January 30, 1982: Wilfred Benitez W15 Roberto Duran (retains WBC Junior Middleweight title) February 15....and so on...
Nothing as complete as that far as I know. I know for some years, maybe most years?, Wikipedia has a ‘Boxing in 1982’ page that hits on the major high points. Basically Jan. 1 through Dec. 31. That’s a start. Wiki also has a page for each weight division (I think you have to figure out in some cases which is a ‘junior’ division and which they call ‘super’ — like junior lightweight vs. super featherweight) to find it and it traces all major championships lineage. There’s a column on the right I think that lists successful defenses by each guy (it’s mostly blank for 1980s heavyweights, haha, because most of them had none). Given your wiki magic powers, maybe you can be the one to tie it all together and give us the kind of clear picture you’re asking for.
I don't know if anybody else remembers this but, back in 05, somebody came up with a great idea. They had a website where fighters looking for fights could post their fights, sparring, etc...with the idea that it would help promoters, matchmakers and the like put together fights and give guys from out of the way places some exposure. It seemed like a great idea but I'm pretty sure that the guy that started it was also selling "courses" for $4,000 to help you learn to be a boxing promoter and make millions. Which, of course, was a scam. So everybody went back to the tried and true method of old guys spending 20 hours a day on the telephone to make fights for young guys.
It was very, shall we say, promoter-oriented and promoter-friendly. Why use a matchmaker (whom you might have to pay, but who would be able to find the right opponent to help the fighter grow and give the crowd an interesting fight) when you can just throw out fights on the internet and take the cheapest guy who will take it, maybe the one most desperate for money. Cut out the manager too, as the fighter will say he made the fight so why should he give up a cut … even though the manager might have turned down $5K to fight a top-15 guy in a 10-rounder knowing it’s worth $10K or more … actually looking out for his fighter. Most of those posted offers when I looked were so below market price, but there was always a naive fighter, or one who really needed instant cash, who would take it. So the promoters figured they could make out like bandit getting cheap ‘meat wagon’ opponents. Which is pretty much exactly the way it would usually work out.
I don't know of one that breaks it down the way you're describing. However, If you go to boxrec, click on TITLES, Go to the first drop-down box and click on 'IBF World' (for instance) Go to the drop-down box below that one and click on 'All Results' It will list every IBF title fight in every division going back to the start of the IBF in 1983. All the IBF title fights in each year for 40 years. You just have to do it for each org (WBC World, WBA World, WBO World). But you'll get all the fights you're looking for. It's just a couple extra clicks.
