Today in Boxing History
Sub-Topics: Boxers - Boxing Associations - Weight Divisions
Events in Sport
Results 1 - 100 of 285
1681-01-06 - 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
1733-05-06 - 1st international boxing match: Bob Whittaker beats Tito di Carni
1743-08-16 - Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)
1810-12-10 - Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)
1853-10-12 - John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans
1863-05-05 - Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round
1873-09-23 - Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title
1876-03-16 - Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1878-03-31 - Jack Johnson is 1st black to hold a heavyweight boxing title
1884-08-30 - Jack Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
1885-08-29 - Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
1888-03-10 - HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
1888-12-22 - Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1890-06-27 - George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight)
1892-02-02 - Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby
1892-09-07 - James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title
1894-01-25 - James J Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1897-03-17 - Bob Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1899-06-09 - James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 11 for heavywgt boxing title
1899-11-03 - James J Jeffries beats Tom Sharkey in 25 for heavyweight boxing title
1900-04-06 - James J Jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1900-04-30 - 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match
1900-05-11 - James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 for heavywgt boxing title
1901-11-15 - James J Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1902-07-25 - James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1903-08-14 - James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavywgt boxing title
1904-08-25 - James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1905-05-13 - James J Jeffries retires as boxing champ
1905-07-03 - Marvin Hart KOs Jack Hart in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1906-02-23 - Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1906-10-02 - Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1906-11-28 - Tommy Burns & Jack O'Brien fight to a draw in 20 for hw boxing title
1907-05-08 - Tommy Burns beats Jack O'Brien in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1907-07-04 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1907-12-02 - Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1907-12-07 - Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring
1908-02-10 - Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1908-03-17 - Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1908-04-18 - Tommy Burns KOs Jewy Smith in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1908-06-13 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1908-08-24 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1908-09-02 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1908-12-26 - Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title, becomes 1st black heavyweight champion
1909-05-19 - Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title
1909-06-30 - Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title
1909-09-09 - Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title
1909-10-16 - Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1910-07-04 - Jack Johnson KOs James J Jeffries in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1912-07-04 - Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1913-12-19 - Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title
1914-06-27 - Jack Johnson beats Frank Moran in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1915-04-05 - Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
1915-12-14 - Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion
1916-03-25 - Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for boxing title
1916-03-25 - Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
1920-09-06 - Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
1920-12-14 - Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1921-04-11 - KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)
1921-07-02 - Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)
1922-05-23 - Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
1923-07-04 - Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1923-09-14 - Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1923-10-04 - Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision
1923-10-19 - Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks
1924-11-04 - Calif legalizes pro boxing (illegal since 1914)
1926-09-23 - Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1927-09-22 - Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)
1927-09-22 - Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1928-07-26 - Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1930-06-12 - Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for hw boxing title
1931-07-03 - Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1932-02-15 - US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)
1932-06-21 - Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1933-06-29 - Primo Carnera KOs Jack Sharkey in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1933-08-23 - 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London
1933-10-22 - Primo Carnera beats Paulin in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1934-03-01 - Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1935-06-13 - James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1936-04-03 - Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds
1937-06-22 - Joe Louis KOs James J Braddock in 18 for heavyweight boxing title
1937-08-30 - Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1938-02-23 - Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1938-04-01 - Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1938-08-17 - Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
1939-01-25 - Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1939-04-17 - Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1939-06-01 - 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer
1939-06-28 - Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1939-09-20 - Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1940-02-09 - Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1940-03-29 - Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title
1940-06-20 - Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1940-12-16 - Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in Chicago
1941-01-31 - Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1941-02-17 - Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1941-03-21 - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1941-04-08 - Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1941-05-23 - Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1941-06-18 - Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1941-09-29 - Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
Birthdays in Sport
Results 1 - 58 of 58
1843-02-12 - John Graham Chambers, English athlete who wrote the Queensberry rules for boxing (d. 1883)
1845-05-25 - William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner (help find PAL)
1856-05-13 - Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938)
1858-10-15 - John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ (1882-92)
1863-05-26 - Robert Fitzsimmons, Boxing champion (d. 1917)
1866-03-24 - Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer
1876-05-26 - Jack Root, boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion
1878-03-31 - Jack Johnson,1st black heavyweight boxing champ (1908-1915)
1880-03-10 - Michael Jacobs, NYC, boxing promoter
1884-02-22 - Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer
1887-09-14 - Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ (1908-10)
1889-04-18 - John Kilbane, US, featherweight boxing champ (1912-23)
1895-06-24 - Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26)
1896-04-07 - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
1898-05-25 - Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30)
1901-07-13 - Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker, welterweight boxing champ (1922-26)
1901-08-01 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925)
1904-09-06 - Maxie Rosenbloom, NYC, light heavyweight boxing champ (1930-34)
1905-09-28 - Max Schmeling, Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ (1930-32)
1907-09-26 - Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, European Boxing Champ (Oly-silver-1928)
1908-01-17 - Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985)
1909-02-11 - Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35)
1909-12-23 - Barney Ross, NYC, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934)
1911-08-09 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (d. 2001)
1912-12-22 - Henry Armstrong, held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles (1938)
1913-12-13 - Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ (1952-60)
1914-01-31 - Jersey Joe Walcott, heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52)
1914-05-13 - Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)
1915-02-22 - Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fight of year)
1920-04-09 - F Don Miller, Racine Wisc, Boxing coach (Olympic-1956)
1921-07-07 - Ezzard Charles, world heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51)
1921-07-10 - Jake LaMotta, Bronx, middleweight boxing champ (1949-51) (Raging Bull)
1922-05-28 - Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
1923-10-12 - Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and manager
1926-03-04 - Pascual Pérez (boxing), Argentine flyweight boxer (d. 1977)
1931-02-11 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator (Showtime)
1931-08-20 - Don King, boxing promoter best known for his association with Mike Tyson and for his unusual hairstyles
1932-09-22 - Ingemar Johansson, Sweden, world heavyweight boxing champ (1952)
1934-06-26 - John V Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion/(Rep/Sen-D-Calif)
1936-05-09 - Terry Downes, middleweight boxing champ (1961-62)
1936-11-12 - Mills Lane, American judge and boxing referee
1940-02-24 - Jimmy Ellis, WBA heavyweight boxing champ (1968-70)
1944-06-05 - Chris Finnegan, UK, middleweight boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1968)
1945-08-09 - Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV panelist (Gong Show)
1947-11-16 - Ebby Thust, German boxing promoter and writer
1949-01-10 - George Foreman, Houston Tx, world HW boxing champ (1973-74, 95)
1949-11-03 - Larry Holmes, heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85)
1951-11-07 - Dan Duva, boxing promoter/producer (Howard Stern New Years Party)
1952-05-23 - "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83)
1953-07-11 - Leon Spinks, US, heavyweight boxing champ (1978, Olympic-gold-1976)
1956-07-29 - Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
1957-02-15 - Steve Farhood, American boxing historian and analyst
1960-04-22 - Lloyd Honeyghan, English welterweight boxing champ (1986)
1960-05-17 - Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter
1965-09-02 - Lennox Lewis, London England, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988, WBC boxing champ)
1966-06-30 - "Iron" Mike Tyson, NY, youngest heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)
1967-08-10 - Riddick Bowe, Brooklyn NY, HW boxing champ (Olympic-silver-1988)
1967-11-12 - Michael Moorer, boxing heavyweight champ (defeated Holyfield-1994)
Deaths in Sport
Results 1 - 23 of 23
1910-10-15 - Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, heavy weight boxing champ, shot & killed
1918-02-02 - John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59
1925-07-14 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (b. 1901)
1930-12-19 - Johnny Douglas, cricketer (soccer int, boxing gold medal), drowns
1933-06-03 - William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88
1947-04-18 - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51
1954-11-22 - Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
1959-11-21 - Max Baer, US, heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49
1963-04-04 - Endzion Barelli, dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18
1967-01-18 - Barney Ross, welterweight Boxing Champ (1934), dies at 57
1968-12-15 - Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86
1975-05-27 - Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies at 53
1976-03-06 - "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, leight heavy weight boxing champ (1930-34), dies at 71
1978-11-07 - Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ (1926-28), dies at 80
1978-11-17 - James J "Gene" Tunney, heavyweight boxing champ (1926-8), dies at 80
1982-05-31 - Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champ/actor, dies at 86
1989-04-12 - Sugar Ray Robinson, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 67 of Alzheimer
1992-02-12 - Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1928), dies
1993-11-15 - Theo Huizenaar, Dutch boxing trainer (Bep van Klaveren), dies at 93
1995-01-08 - Carlos Monzon, [El Macho], Arg medium weight boxing champ (1970-77), dies at 52
1996-01-28 - Dan Duva, boxing promoter, dies at 44
1996-09-14 - Joe Elsby Martin, boxing coach, dies at 80
2001-10-10 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
