On This Day In Boxing History

Larry Holmes vs Gerry Cooney

June 11th, 1982

WBC Heavyweight World Championship

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada     

June 11th

1900: Terry McGovern KO3Tommy White

1922: Georges Carpentier KO1 Ted Lewis

1930: Max Schmeling WDQ4 Jack Sharkey

1934: Tony Zale age 21 debuts W4 Eddie Allen

1935: Freddie Miller W 15 Nel Tarleton

1943: Henry Armstrong W10 Sammy Angott

1952: Jake LaMotta W10 Bob Murphy

1953: Jimmy Carter KO13 George Araujo

1957: Randolph Turpin W15 Arthur Howard

1960: Federico Friso KO3 Bruno Scarabellin

1968: Emile Griffith WMD10 Andy Heilman

1980: Lupe Pintor D15 Eijiro Murata

1982: Larry Holmes TKO13 Gerry Cooney

Wilfredo Gomez TKO10 Juan Antonio Lopez

Trevor Berbick W10 Greg Page

James Tillis W10 Earnie Shavers

Eddie Davis KO6 Murray Sutherland

Willie Edwards W10 Jeff Lampkin

Tony Santana W10 Danny Cruz

Mark HolmesTKO3 William Page

Mitch Green W6 Walter Santemore

Vinnie Costello W4 Billy Costello

Jeff Stoudemire W4 Harry Truman

1983: Jung Koo Chang KO2 Masaharu Iha

1985: Shawn O'Sullivan KO6 Junie Nash

1989: Vinny Pazienza TKO10 Vinnie Burgese

Roy Jones Jr TKO8 Stephan

Tommy Morrison TKO2 Ricky Nelson

Myung Woo Yuh W12 Mario DeMarco

Terry Flanagan is born in Manchester, England

1991: Tony McKenzie KO3 Alberto MaChong

Dwight Muhammad Qawi W10 James Salerno

1992: Rodolfo Blanco W12 Dave McAuley

1993: Jacobin Yoma WSD12 Regilio Tuur

1994: Tom Johnson KO12 Benny Amparo

Jake Matlala KO9 Francis Ampofo

2000: Takanori Hatakeyama KO8 Gilberto Serrano

2004: Kiko Martínez age 18 debuts TKO3 David Casero

2005: Kevin McBride KO6 Mike Tyson

Laila Ali TKO3 Erin Toughill

Miguel Cotto TKO9 Muhammad Abdullaev

2006: David Lemieux TKO1 Elvin Ayala

2010: Paul McCloskey KO11 Giuseppe Lauri

2011: Austin Trout W12 David Lopez 

Ana Maria Torres KO4 Vannessa Guimaraes

Omar Andres Narvaez W12 William Urina         

Yesica Yolanda Bopp TKO9 Yesenia Martinez Castrejon

Avtandil Khurtsidze KO1 Dionisio Miranda

Klara Svensson age 24 debuts W4 Andrea Rotaru

Alexander Alexeev TKO2 Damian Norris

Hasim Rahman TKO6 Galen Brown

David Price TKO2 Tom Dallas

Omar Narvaez W12 William Urina

2012: 1972,1976, 1980 Cuban Olympic Gold Medalist Teofilo Stevenson Dies age of sixty

2016: Vasyl Lomachenko KO5 Roman Martinez

Omar Andres Narvaez W10 Breilor Teran

Liliana Palmera WSD10 Jessica Gonzalez

Moises Flores W12 Paulus Ambunda    

Simphiwe Khonco W12 Siyabonga Siyo

Demetrius Andrade TKO12 Willie Nelson

2022: Daniel Dubois KO4 Trevor Bryan