On This Day In Boxing History!

Amanda Serrano vs Olivia Gerula

February 17th, 2016

BB King Blues Club & Grill, New York     

vacant WBO World Female Feather Title

February 17th

1902: Joe Gans NWS6 George McFadden

1916: Sam Langford NWS10 Sam McVea

1918: Harry Wills KO5 Sam McVey

1919: Harry Greb NWS10 Battling Levinsky

1922: Jack Britton D15 Dave Shade

1935: Freddie Miller KO1 Jose Girones

1937: Joe Louis KO4 Natie Brown

1941: Joe Louis made his 14th successful title defense KO2 Gus Dorazio

1956: Gene Fullmer WSD10 Gil Turner

Carlos Ortiz W8 Ray Portilla

1960: Olian Alexander was born Hutchinson, Kansas

1962: Denny Moyer W10 Ray Robinson         

Carlos Teo Cruz W12 Rafael Acevedo

Jimmy Ellis WMD6 Johnny Alford

1966: Muhammad Ali’s draft status is mysteriously reclassified from exempt (for failing an aptitude test) to 1A.

1976: Koichi Wajima KO15 Jae Do Yuh

1987: Nathan Cleverly is born in Caerphilly, Wales

1988: Vasyl "High Tech" Lomachenko was born in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

1991: Michael Carbajal KO2 Macario Santos

Phillip Holiday KO10 John Lark

1995: Alfred Kotey KO4 Drew Docherty

1999: Floyd Mayweather W12 Carlos Rios

2001: Andrew Lewis KO7 James Page

Takanori Hatakeyama D12 Rick Roberts

Erik Morales W12 Guty Espadas

Lehlo Ledwaba KO9 Arnel Barotillo

2007: Natascha Ragosina TKO7 Yahaira Hernandez

Michael Katsidis KO5 Graham Earl

2016: Amanda Serrano TKO1 Olivia Gerula

2017: Roy Jones Jr TKO8 Bobby Gunn

Jennifer Han W10 Olivia Gerula

2018: David Benavidez W12 Ronald Gavril

George Groves W12 Chris Eubank Jr.

Mariana Juarez W10 Gabriela Bouvier

Debora Anahi Dionicius W10 Terumi Nuki

Nina Meinke W10 Vissia Trovato

Arely Mucino WMD Montserrat Alarcon         

Jennifer Han W10 Lizbeth Crespo

2021: Oscar Albarado passes age 72