On This Day In Boxing History

Roberto Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard I

June 20th, 1980

WBC World Welterweight Title

Olympic Stadium, Montreal        

June 20th

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1924: Steve Sullivan W10 Johnny Dundee

1932: Benny Leonard KO2 Joe Trippe

1940: Joe Louis KO8 Arturo Godoy

1949: Sugar Ray Robinson KO5 Cecil Hudson

1960: Floyd Patterson KO5 Ingemar Johansson

1966: Carlos Ortiz KO12 Johnny Bizarro

1967: Muhammad Ali guilty of draft evasion.

1968: German, Jupp Elze died of injuries received in June 12th, EBU European Middleweight title challenge vs Carlo Duran. Afterwards, Elze was discovered to have taken methamphetamine prior to the bout.

1972: Masao Ohba KO5 Orland Amores

Kirk Johnson born.

1974: Bebis Mendoza born.

1975: Ruben Olivares KO2 Bobby Chacon

1979: Masashi Kudo KO12 Manuel R. Gonzalez

1980: Roberto Duran W15 Sugar Ray Leonard

1981: Alexis Arguello W15 Jim Watt

Wilfredo Gómez KO3 Raúl Silva

1996: Giovanni Parisi D12 Carlos Gonzalez

2007: Jaime Clampitt W10 Jane Couch

2008: Ilunga Makabu age 21 debuts TKO1 Loss Khayeni Hlungwane

2009: Wladimir Klitschko RTD9 Ruslan Chagaez

Gabriel Campillo WMD12 Hugo Hernan Garay

Edgar Sosa TKO5 Carlos Melo

Kina Malpartida TKO7 Halanna Dos Santos

2012: Kazuto Ioka W12 Akira Yaegashi

Khabib Allakhverdiev KO4 Kaizer Mabuza

2015: David Lemieux W12 Hassan N'Dam

Emanuel Lopez TKO10 Rolando Giono 

Shawn Porter W12 Adrien Broner

Andre Ward TKO9 Paul Smith

Errol Spence Jr. TKO3 Phil Lo Greco

2019: Franchón Crews-Dezurn TKO5 Kayla Williams

2020: Emanuel Navarrete TKO6 Uriel López