On This Day In Boxing History

1978: Ricky Hatton Was Born!

Ricky Hatton    

Born: October 6th, 1978

Birth Name: Richard John Hatton

Birth Place: Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Residence: Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Pro-Debut: September 11th, 1997

Alias: The Hitman

Division: Super Lightweight

Stance: Orthodox

Height: 5′ 7½″  

Reach: 65″  

Bouts: 48

Rounds: 284

Ko’s: 67%

Record: 45-3, 32Ko’s

Only defeats to Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao retiring after loss to Vyacheslav Senchenko

Career

Purported Amateur Record: 73-7

IBF Light Welterweight Champion

2005 Jun 4 – 2006 Mar 29

2005 Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year: The first British boxer to receive the award since its inception in 1928

WBA Welterweight Champion

2006 May 13 – 2006 Aug 31

IBF Light Welterweight Champion

2007 Jan 20 – 2007 Feb 9

Lineal Junior Welterweight Champion

2005 June 4 – 2009 May 2

October 6th

1899: Kid McCoy D8 Joe Choynski, Chicago. "Both men had agreed to a draw in case they were on their feet at the end of the sixth round and that was the result. McCoy, clearly out-classed Choynski and scored the only knockdown as reported by the Cripple Creek Morning Times

1931: Benny Leonard TKO2 Pal Silvers

1952: Harold Johnson KO2 Bob Satterfield

1956: Sean Mannion as born in Ros Muc, County Galway, Ireland

1962: Emile Griffith W10 Don Fullmer

1968:  Hiroshi Kobayashi W15 Jamie Valladares

"Hurricane" Peter McNeeley was born in Medfield, Massachusetts

1974: Katsushige Kawashima was born in Ichihara, Chiba, Japan

1978: Ricky Hatton born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

1979: Jorge Lujan KO15 Roberto Rubaldino

1982: Moruti Mthalane is born in Gauteng, South Africa.

1983: Jiro Watanabe WTD11 Soon Chun Kwon

1984: Lee Roy Murphy KO14 Marvin Camel

1989: Muangchai Kittikasem KO7 Tacy Macalos

1990: Robert Quiroga KO3 Vuyani Nene

1996: Jaime Munguía is born in Tijuana, Mexico

Jose Luis Lopez TKO5 Luis Ramon "Yory Boy" Campas

2000: Lehlo Ledwaba KO6 Eduardo Alvarez

2001: Rafael Márquez WSD10 Mark Johnson

2007: Tony Bellew age 25 debuts TKO2 Jamie Ambler

Manny Pacquiao W12 Marco Antonio Barrera

Samuel Peter W12 Jameel McCline

Steven Luevano W12 Antonio Davis

2009: Sutep Wangmuk WMD12 Daiki Kameda

2012: Román González TKO3 Stiven Monterrosa

Yesica Marcos TKO6 Dayana Cordero

Adrian Hernandez TKO6 Suriyan Satorn

Jesus Silvestre TKO4 Takuya Mitamura

Janeth Perez W10 Tenkai Tsunami

Moises Fuentes TKO5 Ivan Calderon

Wilfredo Vazquez Jr TKO7 Jonathan Oquendo

Zaurbek Baysangurov W12 Lukas Konecny

Kaliesha West W10 Christina Ruiz

2018: Artur Beterbiev KO4 Callum Johnson

Luis Nery KO3 Jason Canoy