On This Day In Boxing History!

1962: Julio Cesar Chavez Was Born!

Julio Cesar Chavez

Born: July 12th, 1962

Birth Name: Julio Cesar Chavez Gonzalez

Residence: Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico

Birth Place: Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico

Pro-Debut: February 5th,1980

Alias:  J.C.

Stance: Orthodox

Height: 5′ 7½″  

Reach: 66½″  

Division: Super Lightweight

Bouts: 115

Rounds: 634

Ko’s: 73.91%

Record: 107-6-2, 85Ko’s

Career: 1980-2005

WBC Super Featherweight Champion

1984 Sep 13 – 1987

WBA Lightweight Champion

1987 Nov 21 – 1989

WBC Lightweight Champion

1988 Oct 29 – 1989

WBC/IBF Light Welterweight Champion

1990 Mar 17 – 1991

WBC Light Welterweight Champion

1994 May 7 – 1996 Jun 7  

Named the Boxing Writers Association of America "Fighter of the Year" - 1987.

Named The Ring "Fighter of the Year" - 1990.

Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Meldrick Taylor named The Ring "Fight of the Year" for 1990 and "Fight of the Decade" for the 1990s.

Named the 6th Greatest Fighter of the last 50 years by The Ring in 1996.

Named the 18th Greatest Fighter of the last 80 years by The Ring - 2002.

Named the 17th Greatest Fighter of all-time by Bert Sugar in his 2006 book Boxing's Greatest Fighters.

Inducted International Hall of Fame - 2011.

July 12th

1915: Tommy Gibbons ND 10 Billy Miske

1943: Fritzie Zivic W15 Jake LaMotta

Manuel Ortiz TKO7 Joe Robleto

1948: Ike Williams TKO6 Beau Jack

1950: Jake LaMotta W15 Tiberio Mitri

1951: Rocky Marciano KO6 Rex Layne

1954: Tony DeMarco TKO5 George Araujo

1960: Benny Paret KO6 Garnet Hart

1962: Julio Cesar Chavez born in Obregón, Sonora, Mexico

1971: Joel Casamayor born in Guantánamo, Cuba

1974: Danny Romero born in Albuquerque, New Mexico

1975: Jose Napoles W 15 Armando Muniz

1976: José Nápoles W15 Armando Muniz

1980: Maurice Hope KO11 Rocky Mattioli

1985: Barry Michael W15 Lester Ellis

1986: Evander (Real Deal) Holyfield W15 Dwight Qawi

1987: Lupe Aquino W12 Duane Thomas

1991: Jezreel Corrales was born in San Miguelito, Panama

Tony Lopez KO6 Lupe Gutierrez

1997: Lennox Lewis DQ5 Henry Akinwande

2003: Ricardo Mayorga W12 Vernon Forrest

Noel Arambulet W 12 Yutaka Niida, Yokohama

2007: World Super Lightweight Champion Ricky Hatton is presented with the Member of the British Empire medal by the Prince of Wales at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

2008: Wladimir Klitschko KO11 Tony Thompson

Ulises Solis W12 Glenn Donaire

1923: Luis Firpo KO8 Jess Willard

1986: Evander Holyfield SD12 Dwight Muhammad Qawi.

1988: Felix Savon WRSC1 Svilen Rusinov - ams

1991: Tony Lopez TKO6 Lupe Gutierrez

1996: Thongchai Utaida W12 Orlando Malone

1997: Lennox Lewis WDQ5 Henry Akinwande

Kevin Kelley KO10 Orlando Fernandez

2001: Veerapol Sahaprom TKO4 Dean Bermudez

2002: Javier Castillejo W12 Roman Karmazin

2003: Noel Arambulet WSD12 Yutaka Niida

Sebastiaan Rothmann W12 Jorge Castro

Manuel Medina WSD12 Scott Harrison

Ricardo Mayorga WMD12 Vernon Forrest         

Vivian Harris W12 Souleymane M'baye 

Zab Judah WSD12 DeMarcus Corley

Takashi Miura W6 Yutaka Sato

Regina Halmich TKO6 Svetla Taskova

2008: Wladimir Klitschko KO11 Tony Thompson

Ulises Solis W12Glenn Donaire

2012: Kittipong Jaigrajang TKO8 Ryan Bito

2014: Tomoki Kameda KO7 Panya Uthok        

Mauricio Herrera WMD12 Johan Perez  

Francisco Vargas RTD3 Juan Manuel Lopez

2019: Naoko Fujioka DSD10 Tenkai Tsunami

Ryota Murata TKO2 Rob Brant

Kenshiro Teraj TKO4 Jonathan Taconing