Boxing in History (Part 2)

Events 101 - 200 of 284

• 1942-10-16 National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services

• 1946-06-09 Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1946-06-19 1st TV sports/boxing spectacular-Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn
• 1946-09-18 Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1947-12-05 Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1948-06-25 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1949-02-11 Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title
• 1949-03-01 Former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires with a 66-3-0 record including 52 KOs; defended the title a record 25 times

• 1949-08-10 Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1949-10-14 Ezzard Charles TKOs Pat Valentino in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1949-12-05 Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title
• 1950-08-15 Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 to retain heavyweight boxing title

• 1950-12-02 South African world bantamweight boxing champion Vic Toweel sets a record for knockdowns in a title fight against Englishman Danny Sullivan in Johannesburg; Sullivan floored 14 times in 10 rounds before fight stopped
• 1950-12-05 Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1951-01-12 Ezzard Charles TKOs Lee Oma in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1951-03-07 Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for 2nd time to win National Boxing Association world heavyweight title
• 1951-05-30 Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

• 1952-01-09 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
• 1952-03-09 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title

• 1952-09-23 Undefeated Rocky Marciano KOs defending champion Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round at Municipal Stadium, Philadelphia for the world heavyweight boxing title

• 1953-09-15 Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner)
• 1953-09-24 Rocky Marciano TKOs home town favourite Roland LaStarza in 11 at NYC's Polo Grounds to retain his world heavyweight boxing title

• 1954-06-17 Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles by unanimous points decision in his 3rd world heavyweight boxing title defense at Yankee Stadium, NYC
• 1954-09-17 In a quick re-match at Yankee Stadium, NYC, Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in the 8th round to retain his world heavyweight boxing title

• 1955-05-16 Rocky Marciano beats Don Cockell by TKO in the 9th round at Kezar Stadium, San Francisco to retain his world heavyweight boxing title
• 1955-09-21 In his last fight, undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano KOs light heavyweight Archie Moore in the 9th round at Yankee Stadium, NYC
• 1955-12-06 New York psychologist Joyce Brothers wins "$64,000 Question" with topic of boxing
• 1956-04-27 Undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano, retires from the ring
• 1956-08-06 After going bankrupt in 1955, the American national broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena
• 1956-11-30 At 21 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, 5 days Floyd Patterson becomes youngest world heavyweight boxing champion; KOs Archie Moore in 5th round in Chicago; first Olympic gold medalist to win a professional heavyweight title
• 1957-01-02 In the first of 4 meetings between the fighters, Gene Fullmer wins the world middleweight boxing title with a 15-round unanimous decision over Sugar Ray Robinson at New York’s Madison Square Garden
• 1957-07-29 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1957-08-22 Olympic heavyweight boxing champion Pete Rademacher becomes first to contest the world title in his first professional bout; knocked out by Floyd Patterson in 6th round at Sicks' Stadium, Seattle
• 1958-03-25 Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times
• 1958-08-18 Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, California
• 1959-05-01 Floyd Patterson scores 11th round KO of Englishman Brian London in Indianapolis; his 4th World Heavyweight Boxing title defence
• 1959-05-25 US Supreme Courtt rules Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
• 1959-06-26 Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1960-01-11 LaMar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts
• 1960-01-22 Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
• 1960-06-20 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

• 1961-03-13 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1961-12-04 Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1962-03-24 Emile Griffith beats Benny " Kid" Paret by TKO in 12th round in welterweight boxing title fight at MSG, NYC; Paret dies 10 days later; first use of television slow motion replay

• 1963-07-22 In their second clash Sonny Liston once again KOs Floyd Patterson in round 1 at the Convention Center, Las Vegas to retain the world heavyweight boxing title
• 1964-02-25 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] wins his first world heavyweight boxing title when Sonny Liston fails to come out for round 7 at the Convention Center, Miami Beach
• 1964-03-06 Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to "Muhammad Ali", calling his former title a "slave name"
• 1964-05-20 Buster Mathis beats future world heavyweight champion Joe Frazer on points at trials in Flushing, NY to qualify for US Olympic boxing team; Mathis injures thumb, replaced by Frazier who wins gold medal

• 1965-02-01 Former world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson beats Canadian George Chuvalo by unanimous decision in a 12-round non-title clash at New York’s Madison Square Garden; 'The Ring' names bout Fight of the Year.
• 1965-03-05 Ernie Terrell beats Eddie Machen by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in Chicago, Illinois to win vacant WBA heavyweight boxing title
• 1965-05-25 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston at 2:12 of round 1 at Central Maine Civic Center, Lewiston to retain his WBC/WBA heavyweight boxing title
• 1965-11-01 Ernie Terrell retains WBA heavyweight boxing title; beats Canadian George Chuvalo in 15 round points decision in Toronto
• 1965-11-22 In his second title defense, Muhammad Ali scores 12th-round KO of Floyd Patterson at Las Vegas Convention Center to retain his world heavyweight boxing championship
• 1966-03-29 Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1966-05-21 Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1966-06-28 Ernie Terrell beats Doug Jones by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in Houston to retain his WBA heavyweight boxing title
• 1966-08-15 Puerto Rican champion José Torres beats American Eddie Cotton on points in Las Vegas to retain the WBC/WBA light-heavyweight boxing title
• 1966-09-10 Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1967-02-06 Muhammad Ali pummels Ernie Terrell for 15 rounds to retain his world heavyweight boxing crown at Houston Astrodome; regains Terrell’s WBA belt as well
• 1967-03-22 Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1967-04-28 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
• 1967-05-13 Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
• 1968-03-04 Joe Frazier takes his record to 20-0 and captures vacant world heavyweight boxing title; stops Buster Mathis in 11th round TKO at Madison Square Garden, NYC
• 1968-06-24 Joe Frazier stops Mexican challenger Manuel Ramos in 2nd round TKO at NYC's Madison Square Garden in his first heavyweight boxing title defense
• 1968-09-14 Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

• 1968-12-10 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1969-04-22 American Joe Frazier KOs American Dave Zyglewick in 1st round to retain heavyweight boxing title, in Houston, Texas
• 1969-06-23 Joe Frazier TKOs Jerry Quarry in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1970-02-16 Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1970-11-18 Future HOF boxer Joe Frazier KOs defending champion Bob Foster in 2nd round at Cobo Arena, Detroit, Michigan for the WBA, WBC and The Ring heavyweight titles
• 1971-01-05 Body of former world heavyweight boxing champion Charles "Sonny" Liston (40) is found by his wife Geraldine at their Las Vegas home; he had been dead for an estimated 6 days; foul play suspected

• 1971-12-26 Muhammad Ali finishes off German Jürgen Blin with a thundering right cross for a 7th-round knockout in a non-title heavyweight boxing contest in Zurich, Switzerland
• 1972-01-15 World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier stops Terry Daniels in 4 rounds in New Orleans to retain his WBC and WBA titles
• 1972-05-26 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1973-01-22 George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 rounds to win WBC & WBA heavyweight boxing titles in Kingston, Jamaica; Frazier knocked down 3 times in both 1st & 2nd rounds
• 1973-02-14 Muhammad Ali beats British heavyweight boxing champion Joe Bugner by unanimous points decision in 12 rounds at Las Vegas Convention Centre
• 1974-03-26 George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title in Caracas, Venezuela
• 1974-10-30 "The Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in the 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire; regains world heavyweight boxing title with famous "rope-a-dope" tactic
• 1974-11-23 Alexis Argüello of Nicaragua knocks out Mexican defending champion Rubén Olivares in the 13th round at the Forum in Inglewood, California, to claim the WBA world featherweight boxing title
• 1975-03-24 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1975-05-16 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1975-06-30 Muhammad Ali retains world heavyweight boxing crown by beating Englishman Joe Bugner by unanimous points decision in a re-match in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 1976-01-13 Future undisputed world middleweight boxing champion Marvin Hagler suffers his first career loss in a controversial 10-round majority decision to Bobby Watts at the Philadelphia Spectrum
• 1976-01-24 Former world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas; Foreman knocked down twice in 4th; 'The Ring' Fight of the Year
• 1976-04-30 Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

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