On This Day In Boxing History

1958: Marlon Starling Was Born!

Marlon Starling   

Birth Place: August 29th, 1959

Born: Hartford, Connecticut

Residence: Hartford, Connecticut

Pro-Debut: July 27th, 1979

Alias: Magic Man

Division: Welterweight

Height: 5′ 8″  

Reach: 73″

Bouts: 53

Rounds: 383

Ko’s: 51%

Record: 45-6-1, 27Ko’s

Amateur Career:

Record: 97-13

Welterweight Semi-Finalist - 1977 National AAU tournament, losing to Mike McCallum.

Welterweight Finalist - 1975 & 79 New England Golden Gloves losing both times to Robbie Sims.

Pro Career

WBA Welterweight Champion

1987 Aug 22 – 1988 Jul 29

WBC Welterweight Champion

1989 Feb 4 – 1990 Aug 19

August 29th

1885: The first prize fight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules John L. Sullivan W6 Dominick McCaffrey

1911: Dixie Kid KO5 Georges Carpentier

1951: Kid Gavilan W15 Billy Graham

1958: Marlon Starling born.

1960: Davey Moore W15 Kazuo Takayama

1961: Harold Johnson W15 Eddie Cotton

1980: Julian Solis W15 Jorge Lujan

1981: Saoul Mamby W15 Thomas Americo

Rolando Navarette KO5 Cornelius Boza-Edwards

1983: Timothy Bradley born.

1987: Azumah Nelson W12 Marcos Villasana

1992: James Toney W 12 Mike McCallum

Freddie Pendleton TD2 Tracy Spann

Yokasta Valle was born in Matagalpa, Nicaragua

Yung Kyun Park W 12 Giovanni Nieves

1993: Humberto Aranda KO6 Ricardo Mayorga

1994: Harold Grey W12 Julio Cesar Borboa

1996: The New York State Athletic Commission suspends Rock Newman’s promotional license for one year and fines him $250,000.00 for his role in the post-fight melee that followed Riddick Bowe’s bout with Andrew Golota at Madison Square Garden on July 11.

1998: In Joo Cho W12 Gerry Penalosa

1999: Veerapol Sahaprom KO 7 Joichiro Tatsuyoshi

2008: Steve Molitor KO10 Ceferino Dario Labarda

2009: Celestino Caballero KO 7 Francisco Leal

Brian Viloria W12 Jesus Iribe

2014: Victoria Bustos W10 Natalia Aguirre

2015: Leo Santa Cruz WMD 12 Abner Mares   

Julio Ceja TKO5 Hugo Ruiz          

Yulihan Luna Avila DSD10 Maureen Shea

Yazmin Rivas W10 Kandy Sandoval

2018: Chayaphon Moonsri W12 Pedro Taduran

Siriporn Taweesuk TKO9 Nadya Nakhoir

2020: Daniel Dubois TKO2 Ricardo Snijders

Sunny Edwards W12 Thomas Essomba