On This Day In Boxing History!

Oscar De La Hoya vs Felix Sturm

WBO World Middleweight Title Fight

June 5th, 2004

MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

June 5th

1882: Battling Nelson was born in Copenhagen, Denmark

1889: James J. Corbett KO27 Joe Choynski - One of the most spectacular fight history you can read about! The Fight was cancelled by the police a few days prior so this one was secret - the fight was announced last minute as being on a barge which tipped over...

1900: Eddie Connolly W25 Matty Matthews

1922: Sam Langford KO2 Tiger Flowers

1925: Gene Tunney KO12 Tommy Gibbons

1940: Billy Conn W15 Gus Lesnevich

1943: Kid Gavilan W6 Antonio Diaz

1950: Sugar Ray Robinson W15 Robert Villemain

1952: Jersey Joe Walcott W15 Ezzard Charles

1956: Archie Moore KO10 Yolande Pompey

1958: Virgil Akins KO4 Vince Martinez

1965: Flash Elorde KO15 Teruo Kosaka

1971: Vicente Rondon KO1 Piero Del Papa

1973: John H Stracey KO4 Bobby Arthur

1975: Ishimatsu Suzuki W15 Tury Pineda

1982: Samuel Serrano WTD10 Benedicto Villablanca

Tim Witherspoon WMD10 Renaldo Snipes

1989: Gilberto Roman W12 Juan Carazo

1992: Jeff Harding KO8 Chris Tiozzo

1998: Juan Carlos Gomez KO6 Guy Waters

Yory Boy Campas KO11 Pedro Ortega

1999: Vassily Jirov KO7 Arthur Williams

Roy Jones Jr. W12 Reggie Johnson - Fight ruled a NC after Hopkins was injured when accidentally pushed out of the ring by referee Mills Lane, who was trying to break up one of the many clinches

2001: Camille Ewald, 96, the woman Mike Tyson considered

his adopted mother, dies in Catskill, New York.

2004: Cristian Sanavia W12 Markus Beyer

Bernard Hopkins W12 Robert Allen

Oscar De La Hoya W12 Felix Sturm

Verno Phillips KO6 Carlos Bojorquez

Jose Luis Castillo W12 Juan Lazcano

2009: Mariana Juarez W8 Irma Sanchez

Rola El Halabi WSD10 Loli Munoz

Holly Holm TKO4 Duda Yankovich

Alessio Rondelli TKO2 Roberto Oliveira de Jes

Rola El Halabi WSD10 Loli Munoz

2010: Miguel CottoTKO9 Yuri Foreman

Steve Cunningham TKO5 Troy Ross

Shondell Alfred TKO4 Corinne Van Ryck DeGroot

Sebastian Sylvester D12 Roman Karmazin

2021: Daniel Dubois KO2 Bogdan Dinu

2022: Devin Haney W12 George Kambosos Jr.