On This Day In Boxing History!

Lennox Lewis vs Oliver McCall II

 February 7th, 1997

Vacant WBC World Heavyweight Title 

 Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada  

February 7th

1882: John L. Sullivan KO9 Paddy Ryan

Last bareknuckle world heavyweight boxing championship,

legend has it that Jesse James attended this fight.

1916: Kid Williams D20 Pete Herman

1921: Jack Britton W15 Ted (Kid) Lewis

1934: Barney Ross W12 Polo Nebo

1955: Ross Greenburg born.

1961: Harold Johnson KO9 Jesse Bowdry

1964: Cassius Clay converts to Islam, takes Name Muhammad Ali

1970: Abe Attell, 85, dies.

1988: Frank Tate KO10 Tony Sibson

Myung Woo Yuh W12 Willy Salazar

1997: Lennox Lewis DQ5 Oliver McCall

McCall suffers some sort of bizarre breakdown in the ring.

2009: Ruslan Chagaev W tech. dec. 6 Carl Davis Drumond

Andres Kotelnik W 12 Marcos Maidana

Vic Darchinyan KO 12 Jorge Arce

2010: Daiki Kameda W12 Sutep Wangmuk

Tenkai Tsunami W10 Shanee Martin     

2014: Gretchen Abaniel TKO9 Sumalee Tongpootorn

2020: Mayerlin Rivas W10 Laura Ledezma