On This Day In Boxing History!

Shane Mosley vs Golden Johnson

January 9th, 1999

IBF World Lightweight Title

Civic Center, Pensacola, Fla.

January 9th

1900: Terry McGovern KO9 George Dixon

1917: Pete Herman W20 Kid Williams

1923: Lou Bogash KO11 Charley Nashert

1942: 1942: Charley Burley TKO10 Shorty Hogue

Joe Louis KO1 Buddy Baer

Holman Williams W6 Jose Basora

1969: in a Weyburn Sakatchewan where a young redheaded scrappy kid had his first bare knuckle slug fest in the school yard against a boxer named Trevor Williams, brother of Dave Tiger Williams. It was on this day and the after math of the pumelling that this yougin decided to take up boxing

1973: Koichi Wajima D15 Miguel De Oliveira

1979: Eusebio Pedroza KO14 Royal Kobayashi

1980: Marlon Starling Ko’s prison inmate Charles Newell, 26, serving a 6-to-12 year term for robbery at the state prison at Enfield, Ct. in the 7th round at Civic Center Assembly Hall, Hartford, Connecticut. Newell passes from dies from injuries suffered in this bout on January 18th.

1981: Earl Hargrove KO1 Robert Hart

1992: Joseph Parker is born in South Auckland, New Zealand

1994: Orlin Norris TKO4 Art Jimmerson

1999: Roy Jones Jr. KO2 Rick Frazier

Sugar Shane Mosley KO7 Golden Johnson

2000: The WBC strips Featherweight Champion Naseem Hamed of his title for refusing to relinquish the WBO Featherweight Title.

2006: Eagle Kyowa KO9 Ken Nakajima

2009: Yuriorkis Gamboa TKO10 Roger Gonzalez

Odlanier Solis TKO8 Kevin Burnett

Erislandy Lara TKO1 Rodrigo Aguilar

2010: Ina Menzer TKO6 Ramona Kuehne

Robert Stieglitz TKO5 Ruben Eduardo Acosta

Manuel Charr TKO10 Owen Beck

Denis Boytsov KO2 Kevin Montiy

Khoren Gevor W10 Jeferson Luis Goncalo.

2011: Hanna Gabriels TKO10 Melisenda Perez

Noe Gonzalez TKO3 Gustavo Magallanes

2015: Chris van Heerden WSD10 Cecil McCalla

Darleys Perez W12 Jonathan Maicelo   

Francisco Santana KO1 Kendal Mena

2016: Giovanni De Carolis TKO11 Vincent Feigenbutz