On This Day In Boxing History!

Archie Moore vs Harold Johnson

August 11th, 1954

World Light Heavyweight Title

Madison Square Garden, New York, New York

August 11th

1909: Monte Attell KO4 Jimmy Reagan

1941: Eddie Booker TKO9 Henryk Chmielewski

1947: Kid Gavilán KO2 Charley Williams

1954: Archie Moore KO14 Harold Johnson

1973: Alejandro Gonzalez was born.

1977: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam was born in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

1978: Jermain Taylor was born in Little Rock, Arkansas

1987: Edwin Rosario KO8 Juan Nazario

Michael Nunn TKO 9 Franklin Owens

1988: Mark Breland KO1 Pablo Baez

Edwin Rosario TKO 3 Rafael Gandarilla

1990: Pernell Whitaker KO1 Juan Nazario

Hector Camacho W12 Tony Baltazar

1992: Lennox Lewis TKO4 Mike Dixon

1998: Vitali Klitschko TKO1 Ricardo Kennedy

2000: Tim Austin W12 Arthur Johnson

Dominick Guinn TKO 1 Michael Rothberger

2001: Tomasz Adamek TKO3 Timofey Maklakov

Julio Pablo Chacon KO5 Edward Barrios

2007: Daniel Ponce De Leon TKO1 Rey Bautista

Gerry Penalosa KO7 Jhonny Gonzalez

2011: Scott LeDoux, the former heavyweight boxer and Anoka County Commissioner, passed away age 62 after battling Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) for nearly three years

2012: Former WBA heavyweight boxing champion Michael "Dynamite" Dokes passed away from liver cancer in a hospice in Akron, Ohio age 54