On This Day In Boxing History!

Rubin Carter vs Emile Griffith

December 20th, 1963

Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA.

December 20th

1904: Jimmy Britt W20 Battling Nelson

1905: Jack O’Brien KO14 Bob Fitzsimmons

Grover Hayes ND6 Kid Beebe

1913: Sam Langford W20 Joe Jeanette

1914: Sam McVey W20 Harry Wills

1915: Jimmy Wilde TKO8 Sid Smith

1928: Harry Blitman W10 Benny 'Kid' Carter

1929: Benny Bass KO2 Tod Morgan

1935: Johnny Jadick KO8 Tony Greb

1936: Gus Dorazio KO1 Willie Davis

1939: Gus Dorazio W8 Charlie Massera

1940: Fritzie Zivic D10 Lew Jenkins

1942: Philadelphia’s Pal Moore passes

1946: Ray Robinson W15 Tommy Bell

Billy Arnold W10 Jerry Fiorello

1947: Manuel Ortiz W15 Tirso Del Rosario

1949: Dan Bucceroni W6 Jerome Richardson

1950: Len Matthews KO7 Sonny Boy West

1961: Baek In-Chul was born in Cheonan, South Korea

Giulio Rinaldi TKO7 Helmut Ball

Nino Benvenuti W8 Giuseppe Catalano 

Duilio Loi TKO7 Gale Kerwin

Giordano Campari W7 Tommy Tibbs

Salvatore Burruni W7 Christian Marchand

Ki-Soo Kim TKO6 Lee 

1963: Rubin Carter KO1 Emile Griffith

1964: Tracy Harris Patterson was born in Grady, Alabama

1996: Melio Bettina dies in a New York hospital of complications from diabetes

1975: Alexis Argüello KO3 Saul Montana

Roberto Durán KO15 Leoncio Ortiz

1976: Bennie Briscoe D10 Willie Warren

1981: Saoul Mamby W15 Obisia Nwankpa

1984: Michael Nunn age 22 debuts TKO1 John Borman

Juan Carlos Salgado was born in Mexico City, Mexico

1985: Chong Kwan Chung K 4 Soon Chun Kwon

1996: Melio Bettina, 80, dies

1998: Trainer Sam Solomon, 83, dies

2002: Masamori Tokuyama W12 Gerry Penalosa

Noel Arambulet W12 Keitaro Hoshino

2006: Koki Kameda W12 Juan Landaeta

2008: Nikolay Valuev W12 Evander Holyfield

Humberto Soto W12 Francisco Lorenzo

2009: Wang Ya Nan W10 Charity Mukami

2010: Maria Elena Maderna W10 Diana Ayala

Debora Anahi Dionicius W10 Guadalupe Guzman

2014: Su Yun Hong W10 Gao Liu

Hanna Gabriels TKO2 Paty Ramirez

2015: Yuko Kuroki W10 Nancy Franco

2019: Debora Anahi Lopez W10 Niorkis Carreno

Cristofer Rosales TKO9 Julio Cesar Martinez