On This Day In Boxing History!

Salvador Sanchez vs Roberto Castanon

March 22nd, 1981

WBC Featherweight Championship

Caesars Palace, Sports Pavilion, Las Vegas

March 22nd

1898: James Jeffries KO3 Peter Jackson

1926: Jack Delaney W10 Maxie Rosenbloom

1933: Barney Ross W10 Billy Petrolle

1935: James J. Braddock W15 Art Lasky

1956: Hogan 'Kid' Bassey TKO4 Louis Cabo

George Roe W8 Dick Tiger  

Luis Federico Thompson TKO9 Miguel Amatti

Glen Flanagan KO3 Jackie Graves

Lauro Salas TKO3 Ralph Capone

Jose Becerra TKO5 German Ohm

Baby Vasquez WSD10 Humberto Carrillo

1967: Muhammad Ali KO7 Zora Folley

Jimmy Ellis KO1 Johnny "Pep" Persol

Joe "King" Roman WSD4 Don Waldheim

1968: Javier Castillejo is born in Parla, Madrid, Spain

1980: Joseph Agbeko is born in Accra, Ghana

1981: Salvador Sanchez KO10 Roberto Castanon

1986: James Shuler dies only twelve days after fighting Thomas Hearns, in a motorcycle accident, in Pennsylvania. Hearns presented the NABF Championship belt to Shulers family at his funeral saying he deserved to keep the belt as he had held it longer than Hearns.

HBO launches heavyweight-unification-tournament

Trevor Berbick W12 Pinklon Thomas

Carlos De Leon W12 Bernard Benton

Dwight Qawi KO6 Leon Spinks

Carlos De León WMD12 Bernard Benton

Julio César Chávez KO2 Roberto Collins Lindo

1993: Carlos Gonzalez KO1 Tony Baltazar

1994: Roy Jones Jr. KO6 Danny Garcia

1997: Genaro Hernandez W12 Azumah Nelson

Ratanapol Sow Voraphin KO4 Luis Doria, Saraburi

Sven Ottke age 30 debuts W6 Eric Davis

1999: British boxer, matchmaker, manager, promoter and boxing Hall of Famer, Mickey Duff, age 84, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died at a nursing home in South London

2003: Cory Spinks W12 Michele Piccirillo

Manny Pacquiao KO5 Serikzhan Yeshmangbetov

2008: Andreas Kotelnik KO12 Gavin Rees

Joel Casamayor KO10 Michael Katsidis

2014: Francisco Rodriguez Jr. TKO10 Merlito Sabillo

Anselmo Moreno W12 Javier Nicolas Chacon

Jose Pedraza W12 Alberto Garza

2015: Rey Loreto TKO1 Nkosinathi Joyi

2025: Joe Deguardia’s Star Boxing celebrated its 50th "Rockin' Fights" show at The Paramount in Huntington, NY.