On This Day

In Boxing History!

Esteban DeJesus vs Roberto Duran

November 17th, 1972

Madison Square Garden, New York

November 17th

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1933: Barney Ross W10 Sammy Fuller

1939: Billy Conn W15 Gus Lesnevich

1950: Kid Gavilan W10 Billy Graham

1954: Jimmy Carter KO15 Paddy DeMarco

1967: Dick Tiger KO12 Roger Rouse

1971: Muhammad Ali W12 Buster Mathis

1972: Esteban DeJesus W10 Roberto Duran

1979: Eusebio Pedroza KO11 Johnny Aba

Luis Ibarra W15 Betulio Gonzalez

1986: Koki Kameda was born in in Osaka, Japan

1991: Clive Sikwebu vs Ndoda Mayende - Sikwebu died 9 days after KO loss.

1993: Al Cole KO5 Vince Boulware

1995: Don King trial for insurance fraud ends in a mistrial

1998: Devin Haney born in San Francisco, California

2000: Larry Holmes KO6 Mike Weaver

2001: Lennox Lewis KO4 Hasim Rahman

William Joppy W12 Howard Eastman

Yober Ortega KO4 Jose Rojas

2006: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam W12 Moneliso Myekeni

2010: Danny Green W12 BJ Flores

2013: Brian Viloria TKO10 Hernan Marquez     

Roman Gonzalez W 12 Juan Francisco Estrada

Carl Froch KO3 Yusaf Mack

Adrien BronerTKO8 Antonio DeMarco

Ganigan Lopez W12 Luis Ceja

Erica Anabella Farias W10 Victoria Noelia Bustos

2017: Yesica Yolanda Bopp TKO7 Debora Rengifo

2018: Claressa Shields W10 Hannah Rankin

Firat Arslan DMD12 Sefer Seferi

Seniesa Estrada TKO4 Debora Rengifo

Ibeth Zamora Silva W10 Chaoz Minowa

Eun Hye Lee WMD10 Xiuli Liang

2019: Daud Yordan TKO8 Michael Mokoena 

Ongen Saknosiwi W12 Marco Demecillo

2021: Tim Tszyu W12 Takeshi Inoue