On This Day In Boxing History!

Sugar Ray Leonard vs Thomas Hearns I

WBC/WBA World Welter Title

September 16th, 1981

Caesars Palace, Outdoor Arena, Las Vegas         

Gennady “GGG” Golovkin vs Saul “Canelo” Alvarez

IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC World Middleweight Title

September 16th, 2017

T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada

September 16th

1897: Battling Siki was born in Saint-Louis, Senegal

1913: Johnny Kilbane W12 Jimmy Walsh

1926: Tiger Flowers KO3 Happy Hunter

1936: Benny Lynch KO8 Pat Palmer

1940: Lew Jenkins W12 Bob Montgomery

1956: Mickey Rourke born.

1968: Lonnie Bradley was born Lonnie Sterling Bradley in Charleston, SC

1981: Sugar Ray Leonard KO14 Thomas Hearns

1984: Hwan Kil Yuh KO6 Sakda

1989: Jorge Paez KO2 Jose Maria Lopez

1991: Dariusz Michalczewski debuts age 23 TKO2 Frederic Porter

1995: Terry Norris KO9 David Gonzalez

Julio Cesar Chavez W12 David Kamau

1996: Regilio Tuur TKO11 Luis Enrique Mendoza.

1997: Mark Too Sharp Johnson W12 Angel Almena

2000: Bruno Girard W12 Manuel Siaca

William Joppy W12 Hassine Cherifi

Sharmba Mitchell W12 Felix Flores

Joel Casamayor KO5 Radford Beasley

2005: Sandro Marcos KO2 Johnny Tapia

2006: Marco Antonio Barrera W12 Rocky Juarez

Joan Guzman W12 Jorge Barrios

Israel Vasquez KO10 Jhonny Gonzalez

2007: Edgar Sosa KO9 Lorenzo Trejo

2012: Etsuko Tada   W10 Naoko Shibata

2016: Shinsuke Yamanaka TKO7 Anselmo Moreno   

Hozumi Hasegawa RTD9 Hugo Ruiz

2017: Gennady Golovkin DSD12 Saul Alvarez

Billy Joe Saunders W12 Willie Monroe Jr

Milan Melindo WSD12 Hekkie Budler

Chris Billam-Smith debuts age 27 TKO1 Russ Henshaw

Milan Melindo WSD12 Hekkie Budler