On This Day In Boxing History!

Salvador Sanchez vs Wilfredo Gomez

August 21st, 1981 

WBC World Feather Title

Caesars Palace, Sports Pavilion, Las Vegas

August 21st

1910: Abe Attell KO3 Eddie Marino

1915: Joe Lynch ND10 Jack Wagner

1924: Harry Greb ND10 Tiger Flowers

1929: Willie LaMorte W15 Corp. Izzy Schwartz

1947: Willie Pep KO12 Jock Leslie

Sugar Ray Robinson KO1 Sammy Secreet

1951: Joey Maxim W15 Bob Murphy

1957: Floyd Patterson KO6 Pete Rademacher

1960: Ismael Laguna debuts age 17 KO2 Antonio Morgan

1970: 2000 Olympic Super Heavyweight Bronze Medalist Paolo Vidoz was born in Gorizia, Italy

1971: Vicente Rondon W15 Eddie Jones

1973: Bob Foster W15 Pierre Fourie

Nicolay Valuev was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union..

1977: Luis Estaba KO11 Juan Alvarez

1981: Salvador Sanchez KO8 Wilfredo Gomez

1985: Lonnie Smith KO8 Billy Costello

1987: Julio Cesar Chavez W12 Danilio Cabrera

1988: Jose Sanabria W12 Vincenzo Belcastro

1990: Michael Moorer TKO3 Jim MacDonald

1993: Julio Cesar Vasquez W12 Aaron Davis

Julio Cesar Borboa KO3 Carlos Mercardo

Luis Alberto Lopez is born in Mexicali, Mexico.

1994: Julio Cesar Vasquez W12 Ronald Wright

1996: Laurent Boudouani KO5 Julio Cesar Vasquez

1997: Sir David Hopkins, 75, dies in England. Sir David was president of the British Boxing Board of Control and senior vice president of the WBC.

1999: Kostya Tszyu KO10 Miguel Angel Gonzalez

Former WBA Strawweight Champion Rosendo Alvarez, 29, is arrested after showing up at a Rubenia (Nicaragua) Gallery drunk, taking off his clothes, and starting a fight.

2000: Duke Durden, 62, former chairman of the Nevada State Athletic Commission and former vice president of Don King Productions, passes from cancer at his home in Las Vegas.

A federal grand jury indicts heavyweight Thomas Williams and matchmaker Robert Mitchell on fight-fixing charges. Williams allegedly conspired with Mitchell to throw his August 12, 2000, bout with Richie Melito in Las Vegas, which Melito won via first-round knockout.

2009: Gilberto Ramírez debuts age 18 KO1 Jeseth Magallanes

2010: Marco Huck TKO5 Matt Godfrey

Jackie Nava TKO4 Maria Andrea Miranda

Robert Helenius TKO6 Gregory Tony

Tomasz Adamek W12 Michael Grant

Marco Antonio Rubio TKO6 Jose Luis Zertuche

2016: Heather Hardy WMD10 Shelly Vincent

Errol Spence Jr. KO6 Leonard Bundu 

2021: Yordenis Ugas W12 Manny Pacquiao 

2024: Jarrett Hurd DSD10 Jeison Rosario