On This Day In Boxing History!

1969: Rocky Marciano Dies In Plane Crash!

August 31st

1899: Tommy Ryan W20 Jack Moffat

1915: Ted (Kid) Lewis W12 Jack Britton

1923: Harry Greb W15 Johnny Wilson

1929: Barney Ross debuts age 20 W6 Ramon Lugo

1936: Sixto Escobar KO14 Tony Marino

1956: Mike Gibbons passes age 69

1960: Greg Haugen was born in Seattle, Washington

1969: Rocky Marciano dies in an airplane crash in Iowa age 46

1974: Rubén Olivares TKO5 Enrique Garcia

1984: Pinklon Thomas W12 Tim Witherspoon

1989: Daniel Zaragoza KO10 Frankie Duarte

1990: Jarrett Hurd is born in Accokeek, Maryland

1996: Nate Miller K 7 James Heath

Adolpho Washington W12 Torsten May

Tom Johnson W12 Ramon Guzman

Naseem Hamed KO11 Manuel Medina

1998: Michael Dokes, 40, is booked on charges of sexual assault, attempted murder and false imprisonment according to Las Vegas police, Dokes viciously beat his fiancée, held her against her will, and sexually assaulted her

2007: Mzonke Fana KO9 Javier Osvaldo Alvarez

2011: Daniel Geale W12 Eromosele Albert

Tomonobu Shimizu WSD12 Hugo Fidel Cazares

2013: Adrian Hernandez TKO4 Atsushi Kakutani

2016: Luis Concepcion W12 Kohei Kono          

Ryoichi Taguchi W12 Ryo Miyazaki

2019: Erislandy Lara TKO2 Ramón Álvarez