On This Day In Boxing History!

George Foreman Fights 5-Exhibition Fights In One Night!

April 26th, 1975

Maple Leaf Garden, Toronto, Canada

April 26th

1906: Jack Johnson W15 Sam Langford

1915: Jack Dempsey TKO4 Emmanuel Campbell

1919: "The Fighting Marine", Gene Tunney won the American Expeditionary Forces Light Heavyweight title W10 Ted Jamieson in Paris

1932: Gorilla Jones W12 Young Terry

1938: Nino Benvenuti was born in Isola d'Istria, Kingdom of Italy

1940: Henry Armstrong KO7 Paul Junior

1943: Willie Pep W12 Jackie Wilson

1949: Archie Moore W10 Harold Johnson

Manuel Ortiz W10 Lauro Salas

1965: Willie Pep W6 Jackie Lennon

1971: Rafael Ruelas was born in Yerbabuena, Jalisco, Mexico

1975: George Foreman fights 5-exhibition fights in one night.

1982: Davey Moore KO5 Charlie Weir

Julio Cesar Chavez W10 Benjamin Abarca

1983: Matthew Hilton TKO3 Jacques DeBlois

Mike McCallum TKO 3 Tony Suero

1985: Lester Ellis KO13 Rod Sequenan

Jeff Fenech KO9 Satoshi Shingaki

Marlon Starling W12 Floyd Mayweather

1986: Gary Hinton W15 Reyes Cruz

1987: age 20 Vuyani Bungu debuts TKO4 Xolela Makhuluma

1988: Brian Mitchell W12 Jose Rivera

Donovan Ruddock KO2 Larry Alexander

1991: Julio César Chávez KO4 Tommy Small

1997: George Foreman WSD12 Lou Savarese

Jorge Páez RTD5 Gerald Gray

2003: James Toney W12 Vassiliy Jirov

Antonio Tarver W12 Montell Griffin, Ledyard

Oscar Larios W12 Shigeru Nakazato

2009: Brockton, Massachusetts, Post Office Named After Rocky Marciano

Danny Green KO2 Anthony van Niekerk

2014: Wladimir Klitschko TKO5 Alex Leapai

Yesica Bopp W10 Daniela Bermudez

Juan Francisco Estrada RTD9 Richie Mepranum

Omar Figueroa Jr SD12 Jerry Belmontes

Keith Thurman RTD3 Julio Diaz  

Lucas Martin Matthysse KO11 John Molina Jr

2015: Junto Nakatani age 17 debuts TKO1 Junichi Itoga

2019: Juan Francisco Estrada W12 Srisaket Sor Rungvisai