On This Day In Boxing History!

1990: Pernell Whitaker vs Azumah Nelson

WBC/IBF World Lightweight Championship

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas

May 19th

1909: Jack Johnson ND6 Philadelphia Jack O‘Brien

1933: Kid Chocolate W15 Seaman Tom Watson

1941: Petey Scalzo D15 Phil Zwick

1952: Yoshiro Shirai (W15) defeated flyweight champion Dado Marino in Tokyo to become Japan's first world-boxing champ.

1957: Ingemar Johansson KO5 Henry Cooper

1962- Horacio Accavallo W10 Demetrio Carbajal

Muhammad Ali TKO7 Billy Daniels

1965: John Wesley Meekins born.

1967: Curtis Cokes KO10 Francois Pavilla

Julio Cesar Green was born in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic

1969: Sonny Liston TKO7 George Johnson

1972: Clemente Sanchez KO3 Kuniaki Shibata

1973: Antonio Cervantes KO5 Alfonzo Frazer

1983: Sean Mannion W10 In Chul Baek

1984: Hugo Ariel Hernandez TKO 3 Adolfo Omar Arce Rossi

Soon Chun Kwon W15 Ian Clyde

Francisco Quiroz KO9 Lupe Madera

1985: Wilfredo Gomez W15 Rocky Lockridge

1989: Jorge Castro W10 Jorge Alberto Morello

Jose De Jesus WTD9 Fernando Martinez

1990: Pernell Whitaker W12 Azumah Nelson

Eric Nicoletta TKO3 Jose Seys

1991: Ricardo Lopez KO8 Kimio Hirano, Shizuoka

1993: Chris Pyatt W12 Sumbu Kalambay

1995: Jimmy Garcia, 23, dies from a head injury suffered in his May 6KO loss to Gabriel Ruelas

Joe Calzaghe TKO1 Robert Curry

2000: Malcolm Tunacao KO7 Medgoen Toyota-Thailand

2007: Jermain Taylor W12 Cory Spinks

Kelly Pavlik KO7 Edison Miranda

Ulises Solis KO9 Jose Aguirre

2008: Yusuke Kobori TKO3 Jose Alfaro

2012: Juan Carlos Sanchez Jr W12 Juan Alberto Rosas

Kina Malpartida TKO6 Siriphon Chanbuala

2013: Shindo Go W10 Renata Szebeledi

2017: Igor Mikhalkin W12 Thomas Oosthuizen

Kayoko Ebata W10 Erika Hanawa