On This Day In Boxing History!

Marvin Hagler vs Bennie Briscoe

August 24th, 1978

Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

August 24th

1900: Bob Fitzsimmons KO2 Tom Sharkey

1901: George Dixon D10 Abe Attell

1904: Jimmy Slattery was born in Buffalo, NY

1908: Tommy Burns KO13 Bill Squires

1918: Jack Dempsey TKO5 Terry Kellar

1922: Gene Tunney ND8 Tommy Loughran

1928: Billy Petrolle KO5 Jackie Berg

1931: Louis Kaplan W10 Sammy Mandell

1945: Rocky Graziano KO10 Freddie Cochrane

1949: Boxing manager Dave Wolf was born in Manhattan, New York

1951: Masashi Kudo is born in Gojōme, Akita, Japan

1956: Gerry Cooney was born in Huntington, New York

Joe Brown W15 Wallace Smith

1966: Curtis Cokes W15 Manuel Gonzalez

1968: James Toney was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan

1974: Ben Villaflor KO2 Yasutsune Uehara

1978: Marvin Hagler W10 Bennie Briscoe

1982: Samart Payakaroon age 20 debuts W10 Netrnoi Sor Vorasingh

1986: Buster Drayton KO10 Davey Moore

1988: Carlos Cuadras is born in Guamúchil, Sinaloa, Mexico

1991: Daniel Zaragoza W12 Chun Huh

1992: Miguel Angel Gonzalez KO10 Wilfrido Rocha

1996: Yokthai Sithoar KO8 Alimi Goitia, Kamphaeng

Danny Romero KO2 Harold Grey

2001: José Luis Castillo TKO4 Fred Ladd

Vernon Forrest KO4 Edgar Ruiz

2002: Sven Ottke KO9 Joe Gatti

Sirimongkol Singmanassak KO2 Kengo Nagashima

Derrick Gainer TD2 Daniel Seda

Veerapol Sahaprom TKO3 Dean Bermudez

2005: Vic Darchinyan KO5 Jair Jiminez

2007: Boonsom Yamsiri TKO6 Charles Delada

2012: Daniela Romina Bermudez TKO2 Olga Julio    

ChoRong Son W10 Jinmei Lin

Ju Hee Kim TKO7 Yuki Sakurada

2013: Jhonny Gonzalez KO1 Abner Mares        

Kubrat Pulev W12 Tony Thompson        

Juergen Braehmer W12 Stefano Abatangelo

Omar Andres Narvaez TKO10 Hiroyuki Kudaka

Léo Santa Cruz TKO3 Victor Terrazas

Ina Menzer W10 Goda Dailydaite

2019: Sergey Kovalev TKO11 Anthony Yarde

John Riel Casimero KO10 Cesar Ramirez

Kosei Tanaka TKO7 Jonathan Gonzalez

Juan Francisco Estrada TKO9 Dewayne Beamon       

Shakhram Giyasov KO1 Darleys Perez  

Sebastian Gomez Sanchez TKO10 Luis Castro

Filip Hrgovic TKO3 Mario Heredia

Brandon Figueroa KO4 Javier Nicolas Chacon