On This Day In Boxing History!

Eric Morales vs Marco Antonio Barrera  

February 19th, 2000

WBC / WBO World Super Bantamweight Title

Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas

February 19th

1907: Jack Johnson KO1 Peter Felix

1909: Abe Attell ND10 Jem Driscoll

1924: Jack Delaney W10 Tommy Loughran

1934: Panama Al Brown W15 Young Perez

1937: Freddie Steele W15 Babe Risko

1938: Freddie Steele KO7 Carmen Barth

1941: Ray Robinson WMD10 Jackie Wilson

1945: Willie Pep W15 Phil Terranova     

1956: Horst Niche W10 Ray Schmi

1962: Pone Kingpetch TKO8 Baby Demilonnez

1963: Denny Moyer W15 Stan Harrington

1966: Ismael Laguna KO8 Carlos Hernandez

Clemente Sanchez W10 Chilango Gomez

Rene Barrientos TKO9 Young Terror 

Erbito Salavarria WSD10 Primo Famiro

Bernabe Villacampo D10 Manuelo Balaba.

1971: Carlos Monzón KO2 Domingo Guerrero

Robin Reid was born in Sefton, England

1977: Alexis Argüello KO2 Godfrey Stevens

1978: Freddy Castillo KO14 Luis Estaba

1989: Michael Moorer TKO6 Frankie Swindell

Sung Kil Moon K 5 Chiaki Kobayashi

1991: Mike McCallum TKO4 Frank Minton

1993: Glen Johnson age 24 debuts TKO1 Yurek Del Rio

Carlos Baldomir age 22 debuts W6 Carlos More

1994: Rafael Ruelas W12 Freddie Pendleton

Humberto “Chiquita” Gonzalez W12 Michael Carbajal

1997: USA Boxing agrees to repay & 1.3-million in misused Olympic grants to the U.S. Olympic Committee

1998: O'Neil Bell age 23 debuts TKO1 William Holyfield

2000: Eric Morales W12 Marco Antonio Barrera

Regina Halmich TKO5 Viktoria Varga

2005: Bernard Hopkins W12 Howard Eastman

Jermain Taylor KO3 Daniel Edouard

Junior Witter W12 Lovemore Ndou

2008: Kwanthai Chor Nor Pattalung aka Kwanthai Sithmorseng W11 Mating Kilakil, Bangkok

Denkaosan Kaovichit W6 Ariel Austria

Ismael El Massoudi W10 Aboulaye Soukouna

2009: Luis Concepcion W11 Santiago Ivan Acosta

2010: Edel Ruiz KO4 Clarence "Bones" Adams

2011: Nonito Donaire TKO2 Fernando Montiel

Felix Sturm TKO7 Ronald Hearns

Silverio Ortiz KO2 Efren Hinojosa

Jose Silveria W12 Juan Jose Beltran

Siriporn Taweesuk W10 Gretchen Abaniel        

Vacharaporn Prachumchai W10 Geremie Tabastabas

Mike Jones W12 Jesus Soto Karass

Craig Watson W12 John O'Donnell

Tyson Fury KO5 Marcelo Luiz Nascimento

Alejandro Sanabria, Jr. W12 Rocky Juarez

Pablo Cesar Cano TKO4 Jorge Romero

Ivan Morales TKO1 Patricio Camacho

Frankie Gavin TKO-7 Michael Lomax

Froilan Saludar TKO1 Liempetch Sor Veerapol

Tomoki Kameda W12 German Meraz

Logan McGuinness KO4 Hector Julio Avila

Victor Lupo Puiu W10 Junior Witter

2012: Etsuko Tada W10 Maria Salinas

Mari Ando W10 Maria del Refugio Jimenez Cruz

2015: Naoko Shibata WMD10 Saemi Hanagata

Harold Johnson passeage of 86

2016: Tony Averlant W12 Daniel Wanyonyi

2022: Jaime Munguía TKO3 D'Mitrius Ballard

Natasha Jonas TKO2 Chris Namús