On This Day In Boxing History!

1956: Billy Costello Was Born! 

Billy Costello  

Born: April 10th 1956

Born: Kingston, New York

Residence: Kingston, New York

Pro-Debut: August 22nd, 1979

Division: Super Lightweight

Stance: Orthodox

Height: 5′ 8½″  

Reach: 71″    

Bouts: 42

Rounds: 249

Ko’s: 55%

Record: 40-2, 23Ko’s       

Died: Age 55, June 29th, 2011 

WBC Light Welterweight Champion

Jan 29th, 1984 – Aug 21st, 1985

April 10th

1920: Pancho Villa W6 Mike Ballerino

1931: Jack Berg W10 Billy Wallace.

1954: Murray Sutherland was born in Edinburgh

1956: Sumbu Kalambay was born in Zaire

Billy Costello was born in Kingston, New York

1964: Willie Pastrano KO6 Gregorio Peralta

1965: Ismael Laguna W15 Carlos Ortiz

1974: Victor Burgos was born in Copala, Mexico

1976: Alexis Argüello KO2 Modesto Concepcion

1992: Julian Jackson KO5 Ron Collins

Akinobu Hiranaka KO1 Edwin Rosario

Julio Cesar Chavez KO5 Angel Hernandez

Katsuya Onizuka W12 Thalerngsak Sithbaobay

1993: "Monster" Naoya Inoue was born Zama, Kanagawa, Japan

Julio César Chávez KO3 Silvio Walter Rojas

1999: Naseem Hamed KO11 Paul Ingle

2004: Lamon Brewster KO5 Wladimir Klitschko

Cory Spinks W12 Zab Judah

Lakva Sim KO5 Miguel Callist

In Jin Chi KO7 Michael Brodie

Daniel Reyes KO3 Roberto Leyva

2009: Vyacheslav Senchenko W12 Yuriy Nuzhnenko 

2010: Rey Vargas age 19 debuts KO1 Claudio Palacios

Andre Berto TKO8 Carlos Quintana

Evander Holyfield TKO8 Frans Botha

Marcela Eliana Acuna W10 Maria Elena Villalobos

International referee Arthur Mercante Sr. passes

2013: Naoko Yamaguchi TKO7 Loredana Piazza

2015: Denis Lebedev W12 Youri Kayembre Kalenga  

Eduard Troyanovsky KO8 Aik Shakhnazaryan

2021: Joe Smith Jr. WMD12 Maxim Vlasov   

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