On This Day In Boxing History

Muhammad Ali vs George Chuvalo

March 29th, 1966

World Heavyweight Title

Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto

March 29th

1920: Sam Langford TKO7 Jamaica Kid

1940: Joe Louis KO2 Johnny Paycheck

1947: Kuniaki Shibata is born in Hitachi, Japan

1956: Germinal Ballarin W10 Kid Gavilan

Jimmy Carter W10 Don Jordan

1957: Éder Jofre age 21 debuts KO4 Raul Lopez

1963: George Chuvalo KO4 Chico Gardner

1966: Bob Arum promoted his first fight - Ali W15 Chuvalo

1971: Floyd Patterson TKO9 Roger Russell

1972: Ken Buchanan RTD3 Andries Steyn

1975: José Nápoles WTD12 Armando Muniz

1978: Alexis Argüello TKO5 Rey Tam

1980: Matthew Saad Muhammad KO4 John Conteh

Antonio Cervantes KO7 Miguel Montilla

Eusebio Pedroza KO9 Juan Domingo Malvarez

1985: Joey Olivo W15 Francisco Quiroz

1987: Takuya Muguruma KO5 Azael Moran

1988: Lloyd Honeyghan KO3 Jorge Vaca

1990: Khaosai Galaxy KO5 Cobra Ari Blanca

1990: Nigel Benn TKO8 Doug DeWitt

1993: Érik Morales age 17 debuts KO2 José Orejel

1994: Miguel Gonzalez KO5 Jean Baptiste Mendy

1995: Bernard Hopkins TKO7 Segundo

1997: Michael Moorer W12 Vaughn Bean

Laurent Boudouani W12 Carl Daniels

Julio Cesar Chavez W10 Tony Martin

Ricardo Lopez W12 Mongkol Chareon

2000: Arturo Gatti TKO2 Eric Jakubowski

Jorge Páez RTD3 Angel Aldama

Keith Holmes TKO11 Robert McCracken

Lennox Lewis KO2 Michael Grant

2005: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam TKO3 Diolan

2008: Arthur Abraham KO12 Elvin Ayala

Takefumi Sakata W12 Shingo Yamaguchi

2014: Sergey Kovalev KO7 Cedric Agnew

Debora Dionicius TKO4 Neisi Torres

2017: Anthony Joshua TKO11 Wladimir Klitschko