On This Day In Boxing History!

Joe Jennette vs Sam McVey

April 17th, 1909

The World Colored Heavyweight Championship

Cirque de Paris, Paris

April 17th 1909: The bout lasting two hours and 24 minutes, for a purse of 

$6, 000 Jeannette was down once in the 5th round, three times in the 19th, and once in the 21st, 26th and 28th rounds turned the fight around knocking McVey down 17 times and ultimately forcing him to quit prior to round 50.

Nino Benvenuti vs Emile Griffith I

April 17th, 1967

WBC/WBA World Middleweight Title

Madison Square Garden, New York

Fight of the Year - Ring Magazine

April 17th

1860: Tom Sayers Draw42 John Camel Heenan

1900: Matty Matthews KO19 Mysterious Billy Smith

1909: Joe Jeanette KO50 Sam McVey

1913: Jack Dillon ND10 Battling Levinsky

1914: Willie Ritchie W20 Tommy Murphy

1917: Battling Nelson ND12 Freddie Welsh

1925: Harry Greb W10 Johnny Wilson

1939: Joe Louis KO1 Jack Roper

1964: Joey Giardello SD10 Juan Carlos Rivero – controversial decision Rocky Graziano was in Giardello's corner, Rocky Marciano was in Rivero's corner

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1967: Nino Benvenuti W15 Emile Griffith

1968: Richie Woodhall was born in Birmingham, England

1970: George Foreman TKO3 James J Woody

1971: Victor Federico Echegaray KO3 Juan Domingo Corradi

1976: Benicio Sosa Pts 12 Oscar Jorge Mendez in Buenos Aires

1979: Jim Watt KO12 Alfredo Pitalua

1980: Ayub Kalule KO12 Emiliano Villa

1982: Matthew Saad Muhammad TKO2 Pete McIntyre

1989 Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros.   

1990: George Foreman TKO4 Mike Jameson

1991: Pat Barrett TKO6 Mark McCreath

1993: Steve Robinson WSD12 John Davison

Kennedy McKinney W12 Richard Duran

Corrie Sanders TKO1 Matthew Brooks

James Toney TKO10 Ricky

Lou Savarese W10 Nathaniel Fitch

1995: Shinji Takehara KO1 YoungKi Park

1998: Ben Tackie KO10 Edwin Santana

1999: Sugar Shane Mosley KO9 John Brown

Angel Manfredy W10 Ivan Robinson

2004: Chris Byrd D12 Andrew Golota

John Ruiz KO11 Fres Oquendo

Wayne Braithwaite W12 Louis Azille

Vivian Harris W12 Oktay Urkal

2010: Lucian Bute TKO3 Edison Miranda

Robert Stieglitz W12 Eduard Gutknecht

Sebastian Zbik W12 Domenico Spada

Sergio Martinez W12 Kelly Pavlik

2011: Chris John W12 Daud Yordan

Etsuko Tada W10 Ibeth Zamora Silva