If memory serves me right two others were Berbick v. Page (won by Berbick) and Murray Sutherland - Eddie Davis won by Davis round 6 tko
Thanks. You're correct on that. Menawhile, I found that you can do a search by date on BoxRec. That's a great feature. Here's the whole card: Holmes - Cooney Wilfredo Gomez TKO10 Juan Antonio Lopez (this was the fight I was struggling to recall) Eddie Davis TKO6 Murray Sutherland James Tillis W10 Ernie Shavers Tony Santana W10 Danny Cruz Trevor Berbick W10 Greg Page Willie Edwards W10 Jeff Lampkin Mark Holmes TKO3 William Page Mitch Green W6 Walter Santemore Jeff Stoudemire W4 Harry "A-Bomb" Truman (I made that nickname up) Vinnie Costello W4 Saul Mayren That's a damn good card!
I was just about to add the Shavers and Gomez fights. It was a damn good card. Page was RED hot and strongly favoured over Berbick but broke his thumb early and was outhustled as well. Shavers dropped Tillis FACEFIRST late in the fight but he survived. 9th or 10th.
Here are some good ones. 7-2-1925 Polo Grounds, New York Harry Greb vs Mickey Walker Harry Wills vs Charley Weinert Dave Shade vs Jimmy Slattery Joe Lynch vs Little Jack Sharkey All time greats in main event. Uncrowned heavyweight champion against a top contender. Up and coming Slattery, considered the best prospect in years, against a strong contender. 6-26-1924 Yankee Stadium, New York Harry Greb vs Ted Moore Gene Tunney vs Erminio Spalla Young Stribling vs Tommy Loughran Quite a third feature. 9-23-1948 Yankee Stadium, New York Ike Williams vs Jesse Flores Sugar Ray Robinson vs Kid Gavilan Dan Bucceroni vs Dick Wagner Roland LaStarza vs Don Mogard Got to be the best semi-final in boxing history. Two future heavyweight contenders in prelims.
I'm pretty sure he wasn't related to Greg, However, his opponent Mark Holmes is Larry's brother. Vinnie Costello (also on the card), is Billy Costello's brother, so there was definitely some nepotism on the card I remember shavers knocking down Tillis now. Thanks JT1 for unlocking that memory from the far reaches of my brain!!
p.s. A cool sidenote about Holmes-Cooney is where I watched it. That was back before pay-per-view. It was shown closed circuit in theatres and arenas. I watched that card in the arena where the famous hockey movie 'Slapshot' was filmed (War Memorial Arena, Johnstown,PA).
Mark is very skilled. Even now he just walks into the gym, stretches, and fights anyone who feels like it and he makes them miss about 85 to 90% of their punches. I have yet to see someone give him any sort of trouble. He barely tries and he makes people look like fools. When he is in the gym, only Larry can take him.
The Hearns-Benitez fight had Gomez vs Pintor and several other good fights. It was called the Carnival of Champions in New Orleans.
A couple more: 2-20-1993 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City 1. Azumah Nelson vs Gabriel Ruelas 2. Michael Nunn vs Dan Morgan 3. Terry Norris vs Maurice Blocker 4. Julio Cesar Chavez vs Greg Haugen 5. Gerald McClellan vs Tyrone Moore 6. Leroy Owens vs Humberto Rodriguez 7. Terrence Ali vs Juan Carlos Nunez 8. Felix Trinidad vs Pedro Aguirre 9. Jose Badillo vs Adam Vargas That one drew 135,000 10-14-1967 Estadia Azteca, Mexico City 1. Vicente Saldivar vs Howard Winstone 2. Ruben Olivares vs Ushiwakamaha Harada 3. Manuel Ramos vs Ernie Terrell 4. Chucho Castillo vs Bernardo Carabello This one drew an immense throng also. If I remember, about 100,000
I read about that before. ****, that's almost as many people living in my entire city. Would that be the largest live croud during a boxing event, ever? Those Mexicans just come from everywhere to support their man.