On This Day In Boxing History!

Pernell Whitaker vs Jose Luis Ramirez

Vacant WBC World Lightweight Title Fight

August 20th, 1989

Venue: Scope Arena, Norfolk, Virginia 

2020: The Tyson Hoax Video Was Released!

The video is real as a 2020 YouTube upload, but its central conclusion—“most Tyson fights were fixed,” including Tyson–Holyfield II—is not established by the evidence it presents. It blends well-documented boxing fraud cases with speculation drawn from slow-motion clips, coincidences, and guilt-by-association.

August 20th

1931: Jimmy McLarnin W10 Billy Petrolle

Don King born in Cleveland, Ohio

1944: HBO Executive Vice President and COO Seth Abraham was born in Brooklyn, New York

1952: Billy Graham W10 Carmen Basilio

1954: Carl Olson W15 Rocky Castellani

1958: Virgil Akins TKO10 Charley Tombstone

1972: Yong Soo Choi was born in Dangjin, South Korea

1977: Saensak Muangsurin KO6 Mike Everett

Bobby Chacon W10 Ruben Olivares

1978: 2000 U.S. Olympian, Dante Craig was born in Cincinnati, Ohio   

1980: Enzo Maccarinelli was born in Swansea, Wales.

1989: Pernell Whitaker W12 Jose Luis Ramirez

1992: John Ruiz debuts age 21 W4 Kevin Parker

1994: Vuyani Bungu W12 Kennedy McKinney

Ratanapol Sor Vorapin TKO4 Marcelino Bolivar

1995: Ratanapol Sor Vorapin TKO2 Dario Olarte

1996: Vuyani Bungu W12 Jesus Salud

1997: Bobby Chacon W10 Ruben Olivares

1999:  Paul Spadafora W12 Israel Cardona

2000: Malcolm Tunacao D12 Celes Kobayashi

Joma Gamboa W12 Noel Arambulet

Referee Mitch Halpern, 33, is found dead in his home in Las Vegas the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

2004: Timothy Bradley debuts age 21 TKO2 Francisco Martinez

2005: Fernando Vargas W10 Javier Castillejo

Roberto Vasquez KO4 Jose Antonio Aguirre

Hugo Cazares TKO8 Alex "Nene" Sanchez

2006: Daiki Kameda KO1 Wido Paez

2007: Chris John RTD9 Zaiki Takemoto

Cristobal Cruz TKO10 Alberto Garza

2009: Marcela Eliana Acuna WMD10 Alicia Ashley

Noe Gonzalez Alcoba KO4 Mariano Carrera

2010: Marcela Eliana Acuna TKO10 Rosilete Dos Santos

Surasak Makordae KO5 Sony Fony

Will Tomlinson TKO8 Elly Ray

Mauricio Herrera W8 Hector Alatorre

2011: Rafael Guzman DMD12 Rafael Hernandez

2016: Katsunari Takayama WTD6 Riku Kano   

Louisa Hawton W10 Kei Takenaka

2020: The Mike Tyson Hoax Released On You Tube

2022: Emanuel Navarrete KO6 Eduardo Baez

Oleksandr Usyk WSD12 Anthony Joshua