On This Day

In Boxing History

Dick Tiger vs Gene Fullmer I

October 23rd, 1962

Vacant World Boxing Association World Middle Title

Candlestick Park, San Francisco, Ca.

October 23rd

1893: Joe Gans age 19 No Dec Buck Myers

1911: Battling Levinsky ND6 Jack Dillon

Georges Carpentier age 18 debuts RTD10 Young Joseph

1912: Billy Papke WF17 Georges Carpentier

1931: Lou Brouillard W15 Young Jack Thompson

1938: Bob Montgomery KO2 Young Johnny Buff

1950: Jay Larkin born.

1962: Dick Tiger W15 Gene Fullmer

1963: Tyrone Trice born.

1967: Gerald McClellan born in Freeport, Illinois

1971: Masao Ohba W15 Fernando Cabanella

1983: Lupe Mandera W12 Katsuo Tokashiki

1987: Sumbu Kalambay W15 Iran Barkley

1989: Raul Perez W12 Diego Avila

Jorge Páez TKO6 Allan Makitoki

1992: Manuel Medina W12 Moussa Sangaree

1993:  Felix Trinidad KO10 Anthony Stephens

Junior Jones W12 Jorge Elicier Julio

1999: Mike Tyson NC1 flattened Orlin Norris with a blow well after round ends

Diego Corrales KO7 Roberto Garcia

Paulie Ayala W12 Sahoui Sithchai Condo

Three-time Olympic super heavyweight champion Teofilo Stevenson, 48, is arrested for headbutting a United Airlines employee who tried to stop the former boxer from passing through a security checkpoint in Miami, Florida.

2004: Vivian Harris KO11 Oktay Urkal

2008: Cristobal Cruz W12 Orlando Salido

Demetrius Andrade age 21 debuts TKO2 Patrick Cape

2009: Monica Acosta W10 Nicole Woods

2013: Alicia Ashley TKO5 Zenny Sotomayor

2020: Juan Francisco Estrada TKO11 Carlos Cuadras

2021: Shakur Stevenson TKO10 Jamel Herring