On This Day In Boxing History

Floyd Mayweather vs Oscar De La Hoya

May 5th, 2007

WBC World Super Welterweight Title

MGM Grand, Las Vegas    

May 5th

1863: Joe Coburn KO63 Mike McCoole

1905: Jimmy Britt KO20 Jabez White

1922: Lew Tendler W15 Johnny Dundee

1923: Ceferino Garcia age 17 debuts D6 Pedro del Mundo

1924: Harry Greb TKO2 Jackie Clark

1944: Sal Bartolo W15 Phil Terranova

1947: Ezzard Charles W10 Archie Moore

1962: Luis Rodriguez TKO3 Yama Bahama

1963: Duke McKenzie was born in Croydon, Surrey

1968: Dariusz Michalczewski is born in Gdańsk, Poland

1972: Daniel Reyes in Cartagena de Chairá, Bolívar

1973: Eder Jofre W15 Jose Legra

Carlos Monzón KO5 Roy Dale

1983: Santos Laciar KO2 Shuichi Hozumi

1984: Osvaldo Ocasio KO15 John Odhiambo

1986: Rene Arredondo KO5 Lonnie Smith

1991: Gilbert Dele W12 Jun Sok Hwang

1992: Kevin Lerena is born in Johannesburg, South Africa

1993: Crisanto Espana W12 Rodolfo Aguilar

1995: Floyd Havard KO9 Michael Armstrong

2001: Joel Casamayor W12 Edwin Santana

Dariusz Michalczewski KO9 Alejandro Lakatos

2004: Manny Siaca W12 Anthony Mundine

2007: Floyd Mayweather WSD12 Oscar De La Hoya

2009: 24-year-old Mexican featherweight Benjamín Flores died from a brain injury suffered during his April 30th eighth round TKO loss to Al Seeger at the Anatole Hotel, Dallas

2012: Marco Huck DMD Ola Afolabi

Robert Stieglitz W12 Nader Hamdan

Jackie Nava W10 Diana Ayala

Chris John W12 Shoji Kimura                  

Daud Yordan KO2 Lorenzo Villanueva

Floyd Mayweather Jr. W12 Miguel Cotto      

Saul Alvarez W12 Shane Mosley

Luis Nery age 17 debuts aTKO1 José Guadalupe Salgado

2013: Floyd Mayweather W12 Miguel Cotto
Saul Alvarez W12 Shane Mosley

2018: Gennadiy Golovkin KO2 Vanes Martirosyan      

Cecilia Braekhus W10 Kali Reis

Tony Bellew TKO5 David Haye    

Emmanuel Rodriguez W12 Paul Butler