On This Day In Boxing History!
Azumah Nelson vs Mario Martinez I
February 29th, (Leap Day) 1988
Great Western Forum, Inglewood
vacant World Boxing Council World Super Feather Title
February 29th
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1916: Billy Miske W15 Dick Gilbert
1924: Billy Petrolle TKO4 Irish Kennedy
1928: Dave Shade W10 Charley Long
1929: Jimmy McLarnin KO2 Joe Glick
1932: Primo Carnera W10 Pierre Charles
Benny Leonard W10 Billy McMahon
1934: Primo Carnera W15 Tommy Loughran
1936: Al Delaney W6 "Two Ton" Tony Galento - outweighed Delaney 56lbs
1940: Tony Zale KO4 Enzo Iannozzi
Jackie (Kid) Berg WF6 Eddie Ryan
Teddy Yarosz W10 Willie Muldune
1944: Jimmy Bivins W10 Lee Q. Murray
Henry Armstrong KO4 Jackie Byrd
Jackie Graves KO4 Cecil Bradley
1946: Willie Pep KO2 Jimmy McAllister
1948: Joe Brown D10 Bobby McQuillar
1949: Manuel Ortiz W15 Dado Marino
1952: Virgil Akins KO9 Henry Davis
Chico Vejar W10 Fitzie Pruden
1956: John Holman W10 Joey "Irish Joe" Rowan
Luis Romero W10 Pedro Paris
1960: Isaac Logart TKO1 Peter Schmidt
1964: Sugar Ramos TKO6 Mitsunori Seki
Bunny Grant W10 Kid Banga
Billy Backus KO7 Davey Hilton
1968: Roberto Davila TKO6 Brian London
Pete Riccitelli KO2 Doyle Shiver
Willie Warren W10 Bob Harrington
Boone Kirkman KO2 Mike Lanum
1969: Eddie Gazo age 18 debuts W6 Omar Perez
1972: George Foreman KO2 Joe Murphy Goodwin
Raul Cruz W10 Godfrey Stevens
1976: Soo-Hwan Hong KO4 Shinobu Fujita
Angel Oquendo W10 Bily Wagner
Larry Stanton W6 George Farakas
1979: Fernando Montiel is born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
Mikkel Kessler is born in Copenhagen, Denmark
1980: Teodoro Osuna W10 Larry Stanton
Claude Noel W10 Jerome Artis
Patrick Ford W10 Fernando Jimenez
Rocky Fratto W8 Sammy Masias
Gabriel Bernal KO5 Armando Perez
Marcos Villasana KO4 Jorge Morales
1984: Rene Busayong W12 Ric Barimbad
1987: Yuh Myung-woo TKO1 Eduardo Tunon
1988: Azumah Nelson W12 Mario Martinez
Daniel Zaragoza KO10 Carlos Zarate
1992: Kostya Tszyu age 22 debuts TKO1 Darrell Hiles
Azumah Nelson TKO8 Jeff Fenech
Morris East KO12 Pyong Sup Kim
Aguiles Guzman TKO10 Ivan Morales
Jeff Mayweather W10 Oldemar Soto
1996: Orlando Salido age 17 debuts TKO4 loss to Iván Cazarez
Luisito Espinosa TKO4 Alejandro González
Carlos Gerena TKO4 John Bronson
Tony Miller TKO12 Darrell Hiles
2000: Riddick Bowe sentenced to 30 days in prison
for kidnapping his wife and five children
Davey Hilton (Davey Hilton, Jr.) W10 Eddie Hall
George Arias TKO4 Laerte Resende
2003: Jan Zaveck age 27 debuts TKO1 Zsolt Toth
Jean-Marc Mormeck TKO8 Alexander Gurov
Roy Jones Jr. W12 John Ruiz
2004: Takashi Kunishige WTD9 Tomoyoshi Nakayama
Waenpetch Chuwatana W12 Shin Ogata
2008: Lucien Bute KO10 William Joppy
Robert Guerrero KO8 Jason Litzau
Israel Vázquez WSD12 Rafael Márquez
Lucas Matthysse TKO4 Jorge Luis Noriega Medrano
Renan St. Juste TKO5 Mohamad Said
Vitali Tajbert W12 Jesus Garcia Escalona
Gennady Golovkin KO1 Tshepo Mashego
Raul Garcia W12 Ronald Barrera
Sammy Gutierrez W10 Ivan Meneses
Ramon Garcia (Ramon Garcia Hirales) KO4 Felipe Montiel
Travis Walker TKO2 TJ Wilson
Giuseppe Lauri TKO6 Peter McDonagh
Gianluca Branco W8 Nico Salzmann
Odlanier Solis KO3 Adrian Rajkai
Giovanni Caro TKO9 Oscar Ibarra
Jhonny Gonzalez TKO2 Giovanny Urbina
Miguel "Mickey" Roman W10 Fermin de los Santos
Victor Zaleta W10 Jose Albrto Cuadras
Gonzalez W10 Javier Murillo
Yader Escobar W10 Miguel Tellez
Sonny Boy Jaro TKO4 Julius Alcoa.
Marvin Sonsona TKO4 Edwin Picardal
Ryo Miyazaki TD3 Keisuke Akagi
2012: Nobuhisa "Coronita" Doi W8 Hirofumi Maenosono
Masahiro Ishida WSD8 Taishi Torimoto
Sho Arai W8 Koji Nakano
2013: Jeff Horn age 25 debuts TKO2 Jody Allen
2014: Hekkie Budler KO1 Karluis Diaz
Terence Crawford W12 Ricky Burns
2017: Thammanoon Niyomtrong TKO5 Go Odaira
2018: Luis Nery TKO2 Shinsuke Yamanaka
2019: Eusebio Pedroza passes age 62
2020: Mikey Garcia W12 Jessie Vargas
Roman “Chocolatito” González TKO9 Kal Yafai
Julio César Martínez W12 Jay Harris
Hank Lundy W8 Ezequiel Fernandez
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