On This Day

In Boxing History!

Azumah Nelson vs Juan LaPorte

October 13th, 1990

WBC Super Featherweight Title

Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia

October 13th

1872: Charles "Kid" McCoy was born Norman Selby, Rush County, Indiana

1902: Joe Gans KO5 Kid McFarland

1904: Tommy Sullivan KO5 Abe Attell

1913: Battling Nelson ND10 Ad Wolgast

1924: Harry Greb D10 Tommy Loughran

1932: Kid Chocolate KO12 Lew Feldman

1936: Sixto Escobar KO1 Indian Quintana

1937: Benny Lynch KO13 Peter Kane

1939: Henry Armstrong KO2 Howard Scott

1942: Chalky Wright TKO4 Carlos Cuebas

Henry Armstrong KO2 Juan Zurita

1944: Sugar Ray Robinson KO2 Izzy Jannazzo

1956: Tony DeMarco W10 Kid Gavilán

1960: Harold Petty was born in Saint Louis, Missouri,

1973: Rafael Herrera W15 Venice Borkorsor

1980: David Haye was born Bermondsey, London, England.

1989: Mark Breland KO2 Mauro Martelli

1990: Azumah Nelson W12 Juan LaPorte

1994: Wilfredo Vasquez W12 Juan Polo-Perez

1995 Newmains, Scotland, bantamweight James Murray stopped in the twelfth and final round by Drew Docherty collapsed and died two days later.

1996: Yong Soo Choi W12 Yamato Mitani

1998: The psychiatric report of boxer Mike Tyson is released. According to doctors who examined him for five days, the report states Tyson is depressed and lacks self-esteem, but is mentally fit to return to boxing. The psychiatrists believe Tyson most likely won't "snap" again as he did when he bit Holyfield. 

2001: Mike Tyson KO7 Brian Nielson

Joe Calzaghe KO4 Will McIntyre

2006: Léo Santa Cruz age 18 debuts KO2 Pedro Silva

2007: Sultan Ibragimov W12 Evander Holyfield

Juan Diaz KO9 Julio Diaz

Dimitri Kirilov W12 Jose Navarro

Juan Carlos Reveco KO5 Humberto Pool

2012: Nonito Donaire TKO9 Toshiaki Nishioka

2018: Terence Crawford TKO12 José Benavidez Jr.