On This Day In Boxing History!

Marlon Starling vs Mark Breland II

April 16th, 1988

WBA Welterweight Title

Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

April 16th

1903: Jack Johnson W10 Sandy Ferguson

1951: Gil Turner W10 Beau Jack

Randolph Turpin KO2 Billy Brown

1952: Ray Robinson KO3 Rocky Graziano

1954: Benny Paret age 17 debuts W6 Oscar Campos

1960: Pone Kingpetch W15 Pascual Perez

1968: Curtis Cokes KO5 Willie Ludick

1973: Alfonso Zamora age 19 debuts KO2 Heraclio Amaya

1977: Michael Spinks age 21 debuts TKO1 Eddie Benson

Earnie Shavers KO2 Howard Smith

1988: Marlon Starling D12 Mark Breland

Julio Cesar Chavez KO 6 Rodolfo Aguilar

Julian Jackson TKO1 Reggie Barnes

1994: Kennedy McKinney W12 Welcome Ncita

2001: Chana Porpaoin W12 Keitaro Hoshino

2005: Hozumi Hasegawa W12 Veerapol Sahaprom

Yutaka Niida W12 Jae Won Kim

2007: Ana Maria Torres W10 Dahiana Santana

2009: Saensak Muangsurin passes at the age of 58

2011: Victor Ortiz W12 Andre Berto        

Kina Malpartida W10 Rhonda Luna

Orlando Salido TKO8 Juan Manuel Lopez

Amir Khan WTD6 Paul McCloskey

2015: Shinsuke Yamanaka KO7 Diego Ricardo Santillan

2016: Jose Pedraza W12 Stephen Smith          

Gary Russell Jr. TKO2 Patrick Hyland

Krzysztof Glowacki W12 Steve Cunningham   

2019: Jose Naploes passes age 79 

2022: Errol Spence Jr. TKO10 Yordenis Ugas  

Eimantas Stanionis WSD12 Radzhab Butaev