On This Day In Boxing History!

Lloyd Honeyghan vs Johnny Bumphus

February 22nd, 1987

IBF/WBC World Welterweight Title

Grand Hall, Wembley, UK          

February 22nd

1884: Abraham "Abe" Attell was born San Francisco, CA

1908: Stanley Ketchel KO1 Mike (Twin) Sullivan

1912: Johnny Kilbane W20 Abe Attell

1915: Gus Lesnevich was born Cliffside Park, New Jersey

1918: Terrible Terry McGovern passed age 37 from pneumonia and Bright's disease (a kidney ailment) King's County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York

1933: Young Corbett III W10 Jackie Fields

Barney Ross W10 Tommy Drogan

"Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom W15 Al Stillman

Benny Bass W10 Phil Zwick

1950: St. Nicholas Arena, New York Plainview, Texas, middleweight Lavern Roach "knocked out in the tenth round, by Brooklyn’s Georgie Small Roach was removed to a hospital and died the following day from a sub-dural hemorrhage."

1957: Carmen Basilio TKO2 Johnny Saxton

Horacio Accavallo KO4 Jose Costa

1981: Lupe Pintor W15 Jose Uziga

1984: Loris Stecca KO12 Leonardo Cruz

1986: Sot Chitalada W12 Freddy Castillo

1987: Lloyd Honeyghan KO2 Johnny Bumphus

Dodie Penalosa KO5 Hi Sup Shin

1992: Terry Norris KO9 Carl Daniels

John-John Molina KO4 Jackie Gunguluza

1997: Nate Miller KO2 Alexander Gurov

Arturo Gatti W12 Tracy Patterson

1998: Mark “Too Sharp” Johnson KO1 Arthur Johnson

2003: In first fight after losing to Lennox Lewis Mike Tyson Stops Clifford Etienne In One Round

Erik Morales KO3 Eddie Croft

Jorge Arce KO1 Ernesto Castro

Jose Antonio Aguirre KO7 Juan Alfonso Keb

Jeff Lacy TKO2 Jimmy Crawford

Samantha Browning W4 Tonya Harding

Diego Corrales TKO1 Roque Cassiani

Keith McKnight TKO3 Elvin Evans

Mohamed Ali KO1 Dave Talbot

Danny Doyle NC2 Mike Ricca

Lewis Gilbert WDQ2 Rafael Pedro

Tony Ingram W4 John Phillips

Daniel Ponce de Leon TKO2 Trinidad Mendoza

Jorge Kahwagi KO1 Alexei Osokin

Alejandro Hernandez W DQ 1 Emmanuel Hernandez

Gerardo Verde W4 Elio Angel Morales

Gilberto Zarate W4 Assa Barantz

Ana Maria Torres TKO2 Ofelia Dominguez

Ivan Hernandez D8 Rafael Chavez

Vicente Silva TKO2 Antonio Villanueva

Edgar Cardenas W8 Paulino Villalobos

Victoriano Sosa TKO6 Luis Rafael Sosa

Jeffrey Hill KO1 Angel Beltre

Guillermo Valdez (W6 Manuel de la Rosa

Santos Peralta W6 Rocky Torres

Brian Magee W12 Miguel Jiminez

James Hare TKO1 Frans Hantindi

Dale Robinson W12 Spencer Matsangura

Steve Collins KO1 Ed Carter

Orlando Salido KO4 Armando Cordoba

Martin Castillo W8 Valerio Sanchez

Alberto Rossel W4 Liberio Romaro

Steve Luevano KO1 Marcos Badillo

Isidro Granados TKO1 Ronnie Longakit

Pietro Aurino TKO10 Vincenzo Rossitto

Massimo Morra W6 Giovanni Delisi

Aldo Nicchi TKO5 Alessio Furlan

Paolo Ferrara W6 Otto Nemeth

Melissa Shaffer KO1 Jayde Chafardon

Rachid Mokthari TKO4 Piotr Niesporek

Hassan Naji KO7 Andrzej Ziora

Francois Bastient W6 Mustapha Stini

2005: South Carolina-based promoter Robert Mitchell is sentenced to a 37-month prison term for his part in fixing a series of fights to build up the record of heavyweight Richie Melito

2006: Duangpetch Saengmorakot (aka Duangpetch Kokietgym) KO9 Mathias Thomas

Ratanapol Sor Vorapin KO2 Ratazu Matsui

2007: Jessica Rakoczy TD5/10 Kelli Cofer       

Carina Moreno W10 Suzannah Warner

David Tua W10 Robert "Big Philly" Hawkins

Humberto Soto TKO3 Humberto Toledo

2008: Oscar Larios W12 Arturo Gomez

Saul "Canelo" Alvarez KO1 Axel Rodrigo Solis

Hernan "Tyson" Marquez KO2 Alejandro Padilla

Devid Lookmahanak W12 Makoto Tanigawa

Veeraphol Sahaprom (AKA Veeraphol Nakornluang) KO3 Kentaro Nakagawa

Tabtimdaeng Na Rachawat W11 Glenn Porras

Suriyan Petchpayarknum (aka Suriyan Por Chokchai &Suriyan Sor Rungvisai) W6 Rommel Asenjo

Yuriorkis Gamboa KO1 Johnnie Edwards

Beibut Shumenov KO1 Cedric Howard

Jesse Brinkley KO11 Otis Griffin

Glenn Donaire W8 Jose Albuquerque

Darren Barker KO7 Steven Bendall

Ricky Burns KO3 Silence Saheed

2010: Tadashi Yuba KO5 Akinori Watanabe

Denis Lebedev KO4 Ignacio Esparza

Alexander "Sasha" Bakhtin W12 Nick Otieno

2013: Lamont Peterson TKO8 Kendall Holt

2014: Miguel Vazquez W12 Denis Shafikov

Mariana Juarez W10 Melissa McMorrow

2020: Tyson Fury TKO7 Deontay Wilder

2025: Vergil Ortiz Jr. W12 Israil Madrimov     

Carlos Adames DSD12 Hamzah Sheeraz       

Dmitrii Bivol WMD12 Artur Beterbiev  

Callum Smith W12 Joshua Buatsi        

Agit Kabayel KO6 Zhilei Zhang  

Shakur Stevenson TKO9 Josh Padley

Joseph Parker TKO2 Martin Bakole