On This Day In Boxing History

Shane Mosley vs Oscar De La Hoya

June 17th, 2000

WBC/IBA World Boxing Council World Welterweight Title

Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA.

June 17th

1881: Tommy Burns was born Hanover, Ontario

1894: Joe Choynski D5 Bob Fitzsimmons

1926: Tommy Loughran W10 Georges Carpentier

1937: Luis Rodriguez

1954: Rocky Marciano W15 Ezzard Charles

1960: Marcel Pigou TKO7 Eduardo Lausse

1962: Ingemar Johansson KO8 Dick Richardson

1963: Ralph Dupas W15 Denny Moyer

1966: Sandro Mazzinghi KO12 Yoland Leveque

1967: Terry Norris was born in Lubbock, Texas

1970: Jerry Quarry TKO6 Mac Foster

1972: Carlos Monzon KO13 Jean-Claude Bouttier

Alfonzo Frazer KO5 Al Ford

1974: Bob Foster SDraw Jorge Ahumada

Joe Frazier TKO5 Jerry Quarry

1977: Saensak Muangsurin W15 Perico Fernandez

1978: Mate Parlov W15 John Conteh

Vivian Harris was born in Georgetown, Guyana

1979: Danny Lopez KO15 Mike Ayala, Ayala later admits  to shooting up heroin after the morning weigh-in.

1984: Cornelius Boza-Edwards TKO7 Guy Villegas

1987: Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez born in Managua, Nicaragua.

1995: Riddick Bowe KO6 Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Las Vegas.

2000: Sugar Shane Mosley W12 Oscar De La Hoya

Jose Luis Castillo W12 Steve Johnston

Diego Corrales KO10 Justin Juuko

2005: Leavander Johnson KO7 Stefano Zoff

2006: Jermain Taylor Draw12 Winky Wright

2011: Anselmo Moreno RTD8 Lorenzo Parra    

Gennady Golovkin TKO10 Kassim Ouma

Luis Ramon Campas TKO6 Rogelio Medina

2017: Daniela Bermudez DSD10 Paola Benavidez

2018: Artem Dalakian TKO8 Sirichai Thaiyen